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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has added a tool to its arsenal against intentional food adulteration and contamination. The new software – the Food Defense Plan Builder – is designed to help food facility operators easily develop plans to prevent intentional contamination. Although FDA doesn’t require food defense plans, many companies still implement [...] E. coli Health department officials in Hawaii are trying to track down the source of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that has sickened nine. Four people – one adult and three kids – have been hospitalized. The three children also developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a kidney disease that is associated with pathogenic E. [...] The number of people in Libya who have died from drinking alcohol contaminated with methanol has hit 87, the Associated Press reports. The outbreak, which first was reported a week ago, has injured more than 1,000 people, Libya’s Health Minister has said. Additionally, 15 people have been blinded and others have suffered kidney failure or [...] Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest food safety, animal safety, life sciences and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. Agriculture Editor’s note: Tomorrow is National Agriculture Day in the U.S., a time to recognize the contributions of U.S. agriculture. It falls during National Agriculture Week, which begins today and runs through [...] Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest food safety, animal safety, life sciences and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. Food safety Neogen: Economic adulteration will proliferate – Food Quality News A tough economy factors in. Q&A with Michael Taylor, Part I: The next FSMA rules and imports – Food Safety News U.S. [...] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can now detain food products if the agency believes them to be adulterated or mislabeled, thanks to a final rule announced yesterday. Prior to the update, FDA needed “credible evidence” the food product posed a threat to public health prior to detaining the product. The final rule adopted [...] E. coli No source has been found for an E. coli outbreak that sickened more than a dozen people and claimed the life of a toddler, according to the final report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, published July 20, lists the final number of people sickened by the outbreak [...] Reports of fake alcohol have risen sharply in May and June in the U.K., according to the Food Standards Agency’s (FSA) Food Fraud Database. Of the 170 cases reported to the FSA, about 45 percent of those involved fake alcohol. Last year, of the 238 cases reported in the same time frame, only 23 percent [...] Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest food safety, animal safety, life sciences and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. Food safety June 22 constituent update – FSIS How to reduce the chance of catching a foodborne illness after a wildfire, new chloramphenicol testing protocols and an extended comment period for [...] E. coli Researchers at Tufts University have found a new way to clear toxins from the human body, according to a study published in PLoS ONE. The toxins often are produced by foodborne bacteria such as E.coli, certain strains of which produce Shiga toxin, and environmental bacteria, such as Clostridium botulinum, both of which [...] |
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