Food Safety News - 10/09/2018 Food banks across the country increasingly focusing on food safety

Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Food banks across the country increasingly focusing on food safety By Cookson Beecher on Oct 09, 2018 12:05 am We get our food from all sorts of places — grocery stores, restaurants, farms, relatives, our own gardens — and sometimes community food banks. In each and every case, food safety plays an important part in protecting us from getting sick from contaminated food. But nowhere is that more important than at food banks. Why... Continue Reading Brucella in raw mare's milk rare in Germany, but heat treatment still advised By Joe Whitworth on Oct 09, 2018 12:03 am Officials are advising that mare's milk should be heat treated to kill Brucella, despite the low risk of brucellosis in Germany. The joint opinion from Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI) assessed to what extent brucellosis infection can occur in horses in Germany and other brucellosis-free countries. They looked at if it... Continue Reading Latin American, Caribbean, USDA experts discuss the future of food safety By News Desk on Oct 09, 2018 12:01 am Experts from 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries have met to discuss food safety ahead of upcoming Codex Alimentarius meetings. Mary Frances Lowe, manager for Codex Alimentarius at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said countries need to participate to achieve future collaboration, ensure integrated decision-making and raise the profile of science. "We must strengthen the... Continue Reading Food Safety News Copyright © 2018 Marler Clark LLP. All rights reserved. You received this email because you subscribed to notifications when new posts are published. Our mailing address is: Marler Clark LLP 1012 First Avenue Fifth Floor Seattle, WA 98104 Add us to your address book Update your preferences | Unsubscribe from this list