For their 2022 events, the Coachella and Stagecoach music festivals will not require partygoers to be vaccinated against COVID-19, to mask up, or to attend having first received a negative COVID-19 test. That’s right: Organizers have scrapped all COVID-19 precautions. Coachella is undoubtedly one of the most renowned music festivals in the U.S., if not the…
Ice cream brand Royal Ice Cream Company is recalling a wide range of products due to reports that they could be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes are bacteria that can listeriosis, a foodborne disease that can range from annoying to life-threatening. According to the FDA, the Connecticut-based brand is recalling products across nine U.S. states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island,…
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 not issued until a company…
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture is continuing its Food Safety Fellow program through the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education with support from the USDA’s Office of Food Safety. The FSIS has selected six fellows for fiscal year 2022. The fellows are students currently working toward…
– OPINION – A year ago the Center for Science in the Public Interest urged the Food and Drug Administration to protect consumers from unprocessed poppy seeds contaminated with naturally occurring opiate residues. In a regulatory petition filed along with medical experts and six families injured by contaminated poppy seeds, we asked the agency to…
The 2022 Winter Games in Beijing marked the first Olympic appearance for figure skater Timothy LeDuc, but when they hit the ice for the pairs skating program on February 18, they ushered in a first for the entire Olympics: LeDuc became the first openly nonbinary athlete to compete at a Winter Games, according to NBC…
How has your relationship with teammate Brittany Bowe been a source of emotional strength and support for you?I’ve known Brittany since I was 10 years old and she’s a few years older than me. Back when we were growing up on the same team in Florida, it was more like I was the little kid…
First some basic facts: One ill with Salmonella, Three ill with Cronobacter sakazakii with one death in Minnesota, Ohio and Texas Findings to date include several positive Cronobacter results from environmental samples taken by FDA at Abbott in Sturgis, Michigan facility. A review of the Abbott ’s internal records also indicate environmental contamination with Cronobacter…
No cows needed for this milk. But we’re not taking about products such as almond milk or soy milk. We’re talking about actual milk complete with dairy proteins. But not a cow in sight. How could this be? No easy accomplishment for sure. It’s taken 15 years of research at Tel Aviv University, led by…
A research project on the safety of edible insects involving Germany and Kenya is entering its final year. The German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) and Jomo Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya, are leading the ContamInsect research project, which started in 2020. It focuses on the safety of the most commonly used insect species…