The Food and Drug Administration continues using import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below.  Click here to go to the FDA page with links to details

A study has found an association between violations of food safety legislation and a company’s weak financial situation. The work investigated the link between the financial situation of Finnish businesses and the inspection grades their food production establishments received.  According to the study published in the journal Food Control, financial indicators could help recognize firms

According to the CDC and FDA, the true number of sick people in the walnut E. coli O157:H7 outbreak is likely much higher than the number reported, and the outbreak may not be limited to the states with known illnesses. According to a FoodNet study, for E. coli O157:H7, a pathogen that typically causes bloody

Cargill Meat Solutions of Hazleton, PA, is recalling approximately 16,243 pounds of raw ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA FSIS). The establishment reported the issue to FSIS after they identified that previously segregated product had been inadvertently