Touchdowns and toilet bowls By Guest Opinion  Editor's note: This is 2018 winner of the "Publisher's Award" for essays written as part of a food safety litigation class at the University of Arkansas Law School. The course is taught by Bill Marler and Denis Stearns of the Seattle law firm MarlerClark LLP. When you think about high school football, you think about... Continue Reading
Scientific advisory appointees continue focus on food safety By News Desk  Eighteen new members of the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods are in place, joining a dozen returning members in the mission to provide science-based advice about food safety to the federal government. "The committee members represent a diverse group from academia, consumers, the food industry, laboratories, consultants and government agencies, all of... Continue Reading
Botulism risk prompts recall of Canadian smoked salmon By News Desk  Canadian officials are urging consumers to watch for signs of botulism poisoning if they have eaten certain Four Seasons Marketplace brand smoked salmon products. Inspection activities prompted a recall of the company's apple cider smoked salmon and vodka smoked salmon, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The products may permit the growth of... Continue Reading
Cheese implicated in French outbreak recalled in Canada By Coral Beach  An E. coli outbreak in France traced to raw milk cheese has prompted Canadian officials to initiate a recall of imported Reblochon cheese because of possible contamination. Officials in France announced this past Friday that retailer Leclerc was conducting a limited recall of Reblochon produced by cheesemaker Chabert. The recall was expanded Monday to include... Continue Reading
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Simple tweaks to the schedules of food safety inspectors could result in the discovery of hundreds of thousands of violations now being overlooked across the United States every year, according to new research about how scheduling affects worker behavior. The potential result: Americans could avoid 19 million foodborne illnesses, nearly 51,000 hospitalizations and billions of... 
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