I.M. Healthy SoyNut Butter outbreak reaches Portland school By News Desk  Two of seven cases of E. coli O157:H7 at at Montessori of Alameda school in Portland are genetic matches to the E. coli strain from the national I.M. Healthy SoyNut Butter outbreak, according to Oregon's Multnomah County Health Department. The seven cases include six children and an adult, all from one classroom in the school.... Continue Reading
Food industry wants Congress to fund FSMA enforcement By Dan Flynn  Food safety appropriations for last year are like the high water marks for the next fiscal year budget and congressional appropriators are now being urged not to back off just as the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) just as it is being implemented. A couple dozen major food companies and trade associations Wednesday dropped a... Continue Reading
Security bill calls for ag and food seats on foreign investment panel By News Desk  Another bipartisan proposal with a security bent has been introduced by two powerful Midwestern senators. The legislation would put agriculture and food officials into permanent slots on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS). CFIUS is an inter-agency committee authorized to review transactions that could result in control of a U.S. business... Continue Reading
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ABC Broadcasting and on-air reporter Jim Avila are being ordered to face a Union County, SD jury over a $5.7 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Beef Products Inc. (BPI). ABC News Anchor Diane Sawyer, however, was released from the litigation over the Disney-owned network's depiction of a beef product that came to be known as... 
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