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Good morning! Here are your Monday links

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Food safety

The changing world of food traceability – Food Safety News

In recent years, traceability has become increasingly important.

Cooperative interstate shipment programs: What you should know – FSIS Constituent Update

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Welcome back from the weekend with the Monday links

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Food safety

Determining the “high risk foods”: Another analysis sees things differently – Leavitt Partners blog

Different reports see different risk levels for foods.

Global networks make food safer – FoodSafety.gov

A network [...]

Still sleepy from daylight savings? Wake up with the Monday links

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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. [...]

Happy Monday! Here are your weekly links

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Food safety

Ayrshire testing firm leads safety checks against horse meat – Ayrshire Post

Neogen’s horse species identification test gets a news mention.

Neogen launches gliadin and sesame tests in Reveal 3-D format [...]

U.S. may be upgraded to “negligible” risk status for BSE

The United States soon could be moved to a “negligible” status for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or mad cow) – a lower status than the current level of “controlled”.

The move comes after the U.S. submitted an application to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) last year seeking the change from “controlled” to “negligible,” [...]

Start off the week right with the Monday links

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Agriculture

Report warns of regional food security challenges – AllAboutFeed.net

In short, global food demand can’t be met unless agriculture increases.

U.S. egg exports total 23.9 million dozen – The Poultry Site

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Want a vacation? Help ease a dairy cow’s pain

Comfy shoes can make all the difference in the world. And that doesn’t just go for humans.

Help ease a cow’s hoof pain and enter to win a $1,000 travel voucher (hello warm weather vacation!) when you purchase CowSlips or Easy Bloc bovine orthopedic shoes. The Heal Her Hot Hooves promotion runs through Nov. 30. [...]

Genetically modified calf may produce reduced allergenic milk

For children who suffer from milk allergies, new hope may rest in a calf born in New Zealand.

The tailless calf, which was conceived via cloning and genetic modification, produces milk that contains no detectable beta-lactoglobulin (BLG), one of the allergenic proteins in milk, according to CNN.

Approximately 2 to 3 percent of babies are [...]

Happy October! Here are the first Monday links of a new month

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Food safety

Cheese-smuggling ring is brought down in Canada – NPR

Charges may soon be filed against the “mozzarella mafia.”

Number of children sickened by suspected outbreak of foodborne vomiting virus [...]

Welcome to a great week with the Monday links

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Food safety

UN says food price crisis unlikely but urges action – Huffington Post Food

Although global food prices have stabilized, many fear unrest as seen after a similar food crisis [...]