1 week 5 days ago
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are
News Desk
1 week 5 days ago
Health officials in Hong Kong have warned about a summer rise in a serious bacterial infection that can be caused by consumption of raw seafood or contact with seawater.
Vibrio vulnificus is present naturally in warm marine environments. Its concentration typically increases in summer when seawater temperatures rise.
Joe Whitworth
1 week 5 days ago
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below.
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News Desk
1 week 5 days ago
A t-shirt in a plastic bottle will not produce one either. But it is small, it is strange, it does not throw away easily, and it says the entire argument in one line. Sometime in September a staffer is going to unroll one and read it out loud. That is the whole idea.
Bill Marler
1 week 6 days ago
An estimated 1,000,000,000 people are affected by zoonotic influenza each year. Some zoonoses can be transmitted by food and water.
Dan Flynn
1 week 6 days ago
As of July 31, the states' own published counts totaled more than 21,000 cases across all fifty states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed 1,947 outbreak-associated cases and 98 hospitalizations in nine states.
News Desk
2 weeks ago
Ukrop's Homestyle Foods of Richmond, VA, is recalling 22,880 pounds of baked spaghetti and chicken cobbler products that may be contaminated with foreign material, specifically metal slivers, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The baked spaghetti and chicken cobbler items were
News Desk
2 weeks ago
Ohio released new numbers today — 4,013 cases in 80 counties, up from 2,576 a week ago. Add the states up, one by one, all fifty of them, and the floor under this outbreak this morning is 20,927 people.
Bill Marler
2 weeks 1 day ago
“We may well be on a downslope,” said Craig Hedberg, PhD, professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health,.
Coral Beach
2 weeks 1 day ago
Health officials in the United Kingdom have reported an increase in Cyclospora infections in people returning from Mexico.
Between April 30 and July 15, 67 cases of cyclosporiasis were recorded in the UK.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), Public Health Scotland, and Public Health Wales said there were
Joe Whitworth
2 weeks 1 day ago
The food agency in the Philippines has revealed the results of stricter enforcement measures in the first half of this year.
The country's Food and Drug Administration faced challenges such as limited manpower, process inefficiencies, and backlogs driven by increasing applications.
Joe Whitworth
2 weeks 1 day ago
The FDA is investigating an outbreak of infections from E. coli O145:H28 that is related to imported, frozen berries sold at Publix stores.
The implicated berries are sold under the Greenwise brand and were imported from Frutas y Hortalizas del Sur S.A., of San Carlos, Chile, according to
Coral Beach
2 weeks 1 day ago
The USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for Curry Chicken Salad because of concerns that the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. A recall was not requested because the products are no longer available for purchase.
The Curry Chicken Salad
News Desk
2 weeks 1 day ago
529 Commerce LLC of Parkland, FL, is recalling 3,860 units of its 4 ounce and 12 ounce packages of its Rooted in Rare brand Aquafaba Powder because the product may contain undeclared egg.
People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to egg run the risk of serious
News Desk
2 weeks 1 day ago
In relation to an outbreak of E. Coli infections, the Publix grocery store chain is recalling organic GreenWise imported frozen berries.
The outbreak has sickened 12 people in Florida and Georgia. Four of the patients have required hospitalization.
The recall applies to all frozen Greenwise organic blueberries and berry mixes
News Desk
2 weeks 2 days ago
Infections from microscopic parasite reported in 41 states
Coral Beach
2 weeks 2 days ago
An outbreak of Salmonella infections has doubled in size during the past week.
The Food and Drug Administration reports that the outbreak of Salmonella Javiana infections now has 212 patients, up from 106 a week ago. The agency is not reporting the patients’ ages or where they live. A
Coral Beach
2 weeks 2 days ago
Industrial poultry farming has played a role in the spread of Campylobacter, according to researchers.
Scientists from the Ineos Oxford Institute found that the chicken host environment may drive the evolution of strains that are more likely to cause human infections.
Campylobacter is the most common bacterial cause
Joe Whitworth
2 weeks 2 days ago
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment is alerting the public to a significant increase in Salmonella cases and asking people to be aware of the symptoms.
As of July 28, there were 269 Salmonella cases reported in Colorado since July 1. During the past five years, Colorado has
News Desk
2 weeks 2 days ago
Authorities in an Australian state have rejected claims made in a TV program that horse meat has been detected in food.
The New South Wales (NSW) Food Authority said it has not found horse meat in beef, lamb or any food for human consumption.
Comments were made by NSW Greens
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