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The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently announced that Omaha meat packing company Nebraska Beef is expanding its beef recall announced on August 8, after USDA regulators concluded that the company's production practices on June 24 were...
Retailers, like consumers, expect the meat they buy to be free of pathogens, and most of it is. But when an outbreak occurs, the ramifications are far-reaching and can linger at the store and elsewhere. All agree that the sooner a pathogen's...
S&S Foods, a beef processor based in Azusa, Calif., yesterday recalled more than 153,000 pounds of frozen ground beef patties that may be contaminated with E. coli.
WASHINGTON The nation's produce growers, packers and distributors can trace back product as needed, and efforts to upgrade the industry to standardized electronic record keeping are already well under way, Bryan Silbermann, president of the...
SALMONELLA IN IRRIGATION WATER WASHINGTON — U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials, working to determine the source of the salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 1,300 U.S. consumers this summer, last week said they had...
Two years of major foodborne illness outbreaks and massive product recalls have taken consumer confidence in the U.S. food supply to a low ebb. As unfortunate as these events are, they offer retailers an important opportunity to engage their...
Major food industry trade associations last week rebutted statements made in a recent Associated Press article that lobbying efforts by the industry in 2003 and 2004 watered down record-keeping rules under the Bioterrorism Act of 2002, making it...
In a development described as a key breakthrough by U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials who have been working to determine the source of the salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than 1,300 U.S. consumers this summer, a strain of...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration may soon loosen import restrictions imposed last June on Chinese shrimp, catfish, basa, dace and eel, according to a report last week by USA Today. The FDA announced the restrictions last year after several...
Produce growers are calling for changes in the way the U.S. Food and Drug Administration handles product recalls in the wake of last week's announcement that tomatoes were likely not to blame for the salmonella outbreak that has sickened more than...