In an August 16th update, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed a total of 476 Cyclospora illnesses in 15 states linked to salads sold at McDonald’s restaurants. According to FDA, the salad ingredients were supplied by a company that has also been implicated in a separate outbreak that was declared over last month.
In a July 31st notice, the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) warned restaurants and other foodservice establishments about the dangers of not properly cooking minced beef burgers.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been ordered by the Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to ban the use of chlorpyrifos, a commonly used pesticide for various fruit, nut, and vegetable crops.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has released a summary of a study entitled Before Implementation of the Food Safety Modernization Act’s Produce Rule: A Survey of U.S. Produce Growers.
In Canada, Dole Fresh Vegetables, Inc. has recalled Dole brand Baby Spinach with Tender Reds from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with the newly formed Leafy Greens Food Safety Task Force, met for 2 days to share preliminary hypotheses from the Environmental Assessment in the Yuma, AZ, growing region to facilitate conversations with state and local officials, industry and local growers on the hypotheses and associated actions necessary to prevent such an outbreak from occurring again.
On July 31, a letter about the progress made thus far on the Produce Safety Rule mandated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was published by FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb.
Last week, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data on foodborne illness in Surveillance for Foodborne Disease Outbreaks--United States, 2009-2015.
A host of popular snack food products have been recalled over the last few days because they all contain one common ingredient: whey powder. The ingredient is potentially contaminated with Salmonella bacteria.
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) released results from its most recent annual testing of pesticide levels in food. EFSA says that “Europeans continue to eat food that is largely free of pesticide residues or which contains levels of residues within legal limits.”
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