The Russell County Butchery submitted a petition that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) took in on Sept. 5. It requests that FSIS change the guidance for determining whether a poultry slaughter or processing operation is exempt from inspection requirements of the Poultry Products Inspection Act (PPIA) to allow small and tiny establishments to
An operation focused on finding counterfeit and substandard food and beverages has removed many products from the supply chain. Operation Opson XIII, coordinated by Europol, seized around 22,000 tons of food and 850,000 liters of beverages. In total, goods valued at more than €91 million ($98.3 million) were removed from the market. An alleged 11
Several years ago, I was giving a talk at the Association of Health Care Journalists’ conference in Boston. My talk was primarily an overview of where food safety has come since the Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in 1993. At one point I introduced an article I found in 1993 at the beginning of the Jack
For photos of other products subject to this alert, use link in story. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a public health alert for various meat and poultry products that were illegally imported from the Republic of the Union of Myanmar. FSIS is continuing to investigate how these products entered the country. The
Radical as it might sound, governments may be forced to introduce rationing of certain foods. Global population growth and the impact of climate change on food security is placing resources under increasing pressure.“Over the course of the next 20 years, based on what’s already baked in, we know there will be more people in the
Britain’s House of Lords has pushed the UK government to rule the food and drink industry with a tighter grip, accusing previous governments of being ‘nanny state’ scared, in a new Food, Diet & Obesity committee report today.There is no one silver bullet to prevent and reverse the harms done by food and drink manufacturers
A food service supplier has reported that Taylor Farms had recalled onions because of concerns about E. coli. The recall comes as public health inspectors are investigating a deadly E. coli outbreak that has been traced to McDonald’s Quarter Pound hamburgers served with raw slivered onions. A total of 49 people across ten states have
Treehouse Foods has updated its Oct. 21 recall of various brands of frozen waffles and pancakes to include additional products. The affected products are being recalled from the marketplace because of possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. The recall was expanded after additional information was identified during the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) food safety investigation. According
Fraud and non-compliance issues discussed in August by European countries were at their lowest level since reporting began in early 2024. The number of food and other fraud suspicions raised by EU member states declined in August. The 222 alerts are down from 325 in July, 265 in June, 281 in May, 341 in April
The USDA is planning to reduce some Salmonella testing for poultry products for the coming fiscal year, but that is not necessarily a bad thing. In a 33-page sampling plan for fiscal year 2024, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) outlines the number of samples it plans to test. The agency says most