Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp., doing business as Margherita Meats, Inc., of Omaha, Neb., is recalling approximately 10,990 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) pepperoni products because of possible Bacillus cereus (B. cereus) contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The problem was found by the Department of Defense, who notified…
– Opinion – By Erica Sheward Director, Global Food Safety Initiative at The Consumer Goods Forum At the heart of equitable and sustainable food systems is food safety. Everyone has the right to access safe and nutritious food yet an estimated 600 million people each year fall ill after eating contaminated food, and foodborne diseases…
There are signs that local authorities are getting back on track with food work amid the pandemic but there is still large uncertainty, according to the Food Standards Agency (FSA). A report at the FSA’s business committee meeting this past week gave an update on how authorities are managing COVID-19 tasks with food inspections as…
Danish pork replaced travel abroad as the main source of Salmonella infections in 2020, according to figures from the Technical University of Denmark’s National Food Institute. Danes travelled far less this past year because of COVID-19 restrictions, so going abroad was linked to just less than 20 percent of 614 Salmonella cases. Normally, about half…
The FDA made its decision after weighing the evidence on the efficacy and safety of the half-dose booster shots, including trial data that Pfizer and Moderna submitted in applications to expand their respective booster EUAs this month. In those clinical trials, both shots demonstrated that they effectively boosted the immune system’s antibody response against the…
Once the medication took effect, Ingram was able to trade food delivery apps for recipes again. Actions she once did regularly became major markers of progress. “I was able to start chopping up vegetables again,” Ingram recalls. “That was exciting—to be able to grip the knife and repetitively chop up and down.”It wasn’t just the…
Amos Miller, the Amish agribusinessman from Bird-in-Hand PA, is due back in federal court today. USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) investigators have filed 42 pages of supplemental evidence that could, after today, leave Miller in a world of hurt. Specifically, three FSIS investigators support a government motion filed on Nov. 9 that asks…
Baking cookies is a great family activity for all ages during the holidays. However, this also means that the people most susceptible to food poisoning can come in direct contact with harmful bacteria. Most only think of the dangers of raw eggs and Salmonella and avoid this with certain egg substitutes. But Salmonella isn’t the…
Four lessons have been identified involving regulation during COVID-19 by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI). They include the role of early warning and emerging risk systems to help authorities respond quickly to new threats and how by accepting an impact on official controls, agencies can maintain high priority activities during crises and still…
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has updated information on two outbreaks of norovirus and Salmonella. The FSA is investigating an outbreak of norovirus with local authorities and the UKHSA (formerly Public Health England) with a link to oysters from areas in Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole, and Cornwall. Norovirus is not a notifiable disease in England. Figures…