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Editor’s note: Hi all! Just a little FYI – next week’s edition of the links will be posted next Wednesday. 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 Groundbreaking study into peanut allergy – Food Standards Agency The United Kingdom’s (U.K.) [...] 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 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 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 past couple months have seen a slew of new rules. Although many are related to food safety (such as two long awaited rules from the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act, or FSMA), drinking water safety also received an upgrade. Announced in December, the changes overhaul the Total Coliform Rule (TCR), which has been used [...] E. coli Inspectors will soon see a change in the way they note the source of samples taken during routine Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) testing. The new measures apply to samples taken during STEC verification testing that then are added to the Public Health Information System (PHIS). Sources will be marked as either [...] 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 Key to E. coli-free spinach may be an ultrasonic spa treatment – NPR’s The Salt Even spinach needs a spa day. FDA expands irradiation uses for meat and poultry – Food Safety News The [...] E. coli E. coli O157:H7, one of the most common illness-causing strains of E. coli, can survive in the soil of California’s Salinas Valley for about 30 days – roughly ten days more than it does in Imperial Valley, Calif. or Yuma, Ariz. Researchers attribute the longer lifespan to lower salinity in irrigation water [...] Typically residing the mammalian gut, some strains of E. coli have taken on a new lifestyle, making them more at home on plants, according to new research. As part of the study, the U.K.’s Institute of Food Research took more than 100 isolates from the leafy bits of plants in England. The samples were analyzed [...] |
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