| | By Dan Flynn on Sep 27, 2018 12:05 am A week after Cargill Meat Solutions recall of 66 tons of ground beef, some concerns remain. Experts at Consumer Reports suggest tossing out any ground beef in your freezer purchased between June 21 and July 11 of this year “out of an abundance of caution.” And a top food safety advocate in Congress, Rep. Rosa... Continue Reading By Coral Beach on Sep 27, 2018 12:03 am The CDC has declared the Salmonella Mbandaka outbreak traced to Kellogg's Honey Smacks is over, with 135 having been confirmed infected, but the agency is continuing to urge consumers to make sure they don't have any of the cereal in their homes. Because of the outbreak, the iconic Kellogg Co. initiated an international recall of... Continue Reading By Joe Whitworth on Sep 27, 2018 12:02 am Fipronil in eggs and Salmonella in poultry meat from Brazil dominated information exchanges between European countries in 2017, according to the annual Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) report. A total of 3,832 original notifications were reported to the European Commission last year. Of these, 942 were classed as alerts, 596 as information... Continue Reading By News Desk on Sep 27, 2018 12:01 am A Hepatitis A database has shown promise, and with improvements could be used at earlier stages of international outbreaks, according to researchers. The team assessed usefulness of the dataset for geographical annotation, backtracing and outbreak detection and results were published in the Eurosurveillance journal. Hepatitis A virus Network (HAVNet) is an international laboratory network set... Continue Reading By Coral Beach on Sep 26, 2018 01:13 pm The FDA may begin releasing lists of retailers that receive recalled food so consumers can more easily identify it. Agency policy has prohibited the release of such information, citing considerations for "confidential" business relationships. Consumers, businesses, and others can comment on a draft of procedures for industry and the agency, according to a statement issued... Continue Reading | | | | | |
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