Food Safety News - 08/07/2018 FDA says cattle feedlot could be to blame for E. coli in canal water used on romaine

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FDA says cattle feedlot could be to blame for E. coli in canal water used on romaine

By Coral Beach on Aug 07, 2018 12:27 am


Outbreak investigators say a cattle feedlot near a canal providing water to growing regions in Arizona is a key element in their hypothesis about the source of E. coli that contaminated romaine lettuce earlier this year. The Food and Drug Administration has been investigating the outbreak, linked to romaine grown in the Yuma, AZ, area... Continue Reading



Senate might not buy King's amendment to open all states to all American farm products

By Dan Flynn on Aug 07, 2018 12:05 am


Representative Steve King, R-IA, has succeeded in attaching his “Protect Interstate Commerce Act (PICA) of 2018” to the House version of the now 641-page “Farm Bill” and senators are pushing back. A conservative Republican, King wants to use federal power to stop states from interfering with what he refers to as American agriculture. In response,... Continue Reading



EU mulls regulation changes for raw juices and Listeria in sprouted seeds

By Joe Whitworth on Aug 07, 2018 12:04 am


Leaders of the European Union are looking at changing regulations around unpasteurized juices and Listeria monocytogenes in sprouted seeds. The draft legislation states that because the European Committee for Standardization and the International Organization for Standardization revised a number of reference methods and a protocol to verify compliance with microbiological criteria, regulation (EC) No 2073/2005... Continue Reading



Data show Germany, UK reported almost half of E. coli infections in EU

By News Desk on Aug 07, 2018 12:02 am


Germany and the United Kingdom accounted for almost half of STEC/VTEC cases in 2016, according to European statistics. The two countries also reported the most number of cases in 2015. A total of 6,619 confirmed cases of infections with Shiga-toxin/verocytotoxin-producing E. coli (STEC/VTEC) were recorded in Europe in 2016, the most recent year for which complete... Continue Reading



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