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BY HELENA BOTTEMILLER | JUN 30, 2010 FSIS, FDA, and CDC Announce Dates for Public Meetings to Measure Progress The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced this week a series of meetings to work on measuring progress in reducing the public health burden of foodborne illness from contaminated food. ...

Created: 07/01/2010 02:05 pm

Consumers will soon have a mobile application, fueled by government recall data, at their fingertips to keep potentially unsafe products, from food to furniture to drugs, out of their home ...

Created: 07/02/2010 07:20 pm

The USDA has made an announcement stating school cafeteria lunches will now be held to higher  food safety standards when it comes to serving ground beef. ...

Created: 05/16/2010 07:33 pm

foodpoisonjournal.com Posted on March 29, 2010 by Bill Marler I really was not going to jump too much further into the Wisconsin Raw Milk debate until I read this quote the other morning: "We just don't see that as an issue.” ...

Created: 03/31/2010 08:29 pm

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published an analysis of the levels of dioxins and related substances in food and animal feed. The report, which was prepared by EFSA’s Data Collection and Exposure unit, is based on over 7,000 samples collected by 21 European countries between 1999 and 2008. ...

Created: 03/31/2010 06:03 pm

EFSA’s Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) is launching an online public consultation on its draft scientific report on the welfare aspects of genetic selection in chickens raised specifically for meat production (broilers). ...

Created: 03/31/2010 05:49 pm

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Created: 03/30/2010 08:59 pm

Second in a Three-Part Serie (March 24) — For centuries, it was the cook and the heat of the fire that cajoled taste, texture, flavor and aroma from the pot. Today, that culinary voodoo is being crafted by white-coated scientists toiling in pristine labs, rearranging atoms into chemical particles never before seen. ...

Created: 03/25/2010 05:33 pm

By Doug Ohlemeier A bill passed by the Florida state senate strengthens the state’s tomato food safety standards. On March 23, the Florida Senate in a 35-1 vote passed SB 350, which defines how tomato growers, packers, repackers and handlers can be considered in compliance with state food safety standards ...

Created: 03/25/2010 05:12 pm

Some of Britain's best-known foods contain the controversial chemical bisphenol A, The Independent can reveal. ...

Created: 04/01/2010 04:28 pm

Opinion: Safety and efficacy of Econase XT P/L as feed additive for chickens for fattening, chickens reared for laying, turkeys for fattening, turkeys reared for breeding and piglets (weaned) ...

Folder: Scientific Documents
Created: 10/14/2009 09:08 pm

Summary: Safety and efficacy of Econase XT P/L as feed additive for chickens for fattening, chickens reared for laying, turkeys for fattening, turkeys reared for breeding and piglets (weaned) ...

Folder: Scientific Documents
Created: 10/14/2009 09:08 pm

The European Parliament reiterated its opposition to meat and milk produced from cloned animals yesterday (7 July), piling pressure on the European Commission to ban food produced in this way. ...

Created: 07/08/2010 07:29 pm

Commission Recommendation 2007/331/EC of 3 May 2007 on the monitoring of acrylamide levels in food requires the Member States to perform annually in 2007, 2008 and 2009 the monitoring of acrylamide levels in certain foodstuffs. The current report describes the results from the monitoring exercise of 2008. ...

Created: 05/19/2010 05:04 pm

MANDEVILLE (JIS): Tuesday, April 06, 2010 Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Dr. Christopher Tufton, has said that he will be looking at measures to improve the horticultural industry, which has seen a decline since Hurricane Gilbert in 1988. ...

Created: 04/07/2010 07:14 pm

Maryn McKenna  Contributing Writer Mar 31, 2010 (CIDRAP News) – To the general risks of airline travel today—overbookings, delays, and knee-crushing seats—passengers can now add another potential indignity: enduring and contracting the explosive vomiting and diarrhea of norovirus infection. ...

Created: 04/02/2010 02:52 pm

The EFSA Journal is an open-access, online scientific journal that publishes the scientific outputs of the European Food Safety Authority. EFSA’s various output types are devoted to the field of risk assessment in relation to food and feed and include nutrition, animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection. ...

Created: 08/06/2010 04:31 pm

28 July 2010 EFSA’s Panel on Animal Health and Welfare (AHAW) has adopted a scientific opinion on the influence of genetic selection on the welfare of broilers and another opinion on the influence of housing and management on the welfare of broiler breeders[1]. EFSA’s experts say that most welfare concerns are linked to fast growth rates, a result of genetic selection in chickens. ...

Created: 07/29/2010 03:08 pm

BY ANDY WEISBECKER | JUN 15, 2010 /www.foodsafetynews.com The thousands of soccer (football for the rest of the world) fans traveling to South Africa for the World Cup also get the opportunity for the next few weeks to sample the variety of foods available there, in addition to the action in the packed stadiums. ...

Created: 06/15/2010 05:47 pm