U.S. officials have finished investigating the cause of a previously unannounced multi-state foodborne illness outbreak, and the likely source is Escherichia coli.
If African swine fever is detected in either the U.S. or Canada, while still absent from domestic swine, U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal Plant Health Inspection Service and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency have enacted protocol to help ensure bilateral trade will continue.
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has announced that the Food Safety Modernization Act Produce Safety Rule is now available in Chinese and Portuguese.
I recall sitting in the office one day in the fall of 2018 when I received a call from a reporter who informed me that there had been a further outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 linked to romaine lettuce. After an initial response of “oh, no,” the reporter asked why do we continue to have outbreaks linked to lettuce?
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced key achievements for fiscal year (FY) 2020 and highlighted progress on its goal of modernizing the agency and fulfilling its mission to prevent foodborne illness and protect public health.
Models and tools developed will advance next-generation food safety risk assessments to improve risk management of foodborne illness and better protect public health.
In an effort to allow FDA to sample water, soil and environmental conditions on USDA-regulated concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs), New York Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand introduced a bill that would provide the FDA authority to conduct microbial sampling on CAFOs as necessary for a foodborne illness outbreak investigation, determine the outbreak’s root cause or address other public health needs.
