Food Recalls
The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn - David A. Kessler, M.D. FDA Commissioner
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Foodborne Illnesses and Recalls on the Rise
The last word a manufacturer wants to hear is “recall”. During 2017, recalls involved everything from salad mix contaminated with a dead bat to hash browns infused with shredded golf balls.
Not all recalls are created equal. Both the USDA and the FDA have three classifications of recalls to indicate the relative degree of health hazard presented by the product being recalled:
- Class I: A Class I recall is the most serious classification, involving a health hazard situation in which there is a reasonable probability that eating the food will cause health problems or death.
- Class II: A Class II recall involves a potential health hazard situation in which there…
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Why romaine lettuce keeps getting recalled
Compared to other vegetables, though, our favorite salad bases are by far the most at risk for harboring dangerous bacteria. Unlike fruits and vegetables which grow higher above the ground or are protected by an outer shell or rind, leafy greens grow near the ground in open fields and are therefore susceptible to the germs from soil, water, and animal intestines, says CDC Health Communication Specialist Brian Katzowitz.
Wide Recalls Are Latest Jolt to Food-Supply Chain
Whole Foods, Walmart, Trader Joe’s among retailers affected by salmonella and listeria worry.
Ditch all romaine lettuce and check your eggs — a bad week for food recalls
When food starts making people sick, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) swing into action. The federal agencies employ inspectors and sophisticated tech including bacteria DNA fingerprinting via the CDC’s Pulsenet toolkit to track the incidence, spread, and sources of outbreaks, but the science isn’t yet perfect.
F.D.A. Leaves Tainted Foods on Shelves Too Long, Report Finds
The Food and Drug Administration is not moving quickly enough to ensure that contaminated food is removed from store shelves, despite being given the necessary authority, federal investigators have concluded.
FDA Food Recalls Up Nearly 93% Since 2012
Bacterial contamination and undeclared allergens lead the way in causes.
FDA Issues Mandatory Recall For Kratom Products Over Salmonella Risks
“This is the third time the FDA has started the process of using its mandatory recall authority, but the first time” it’s issued such an order due to a company rebuffing the voluntary recall request, the agency said in a statement.
Food Safety Scares Are Up In 2018. Here's Why You Shouldn't Freak Out
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has weighed in as well. In a statement last June he wrote, "We believe food is safer than perhaps ever before." He went on: "What's happening is that our ability to identify outbreaks has dramatically improved due to new information technologies and laboratory techniques."
Fruits and vegetables poison more Americans than beef and chicken
According to an estimate from the CDC, produce causes nearly half of all food-borne illnesses, while dairy and eggs cause 20 percent, meat and poultry are the culprits in only 22 percent of cases, and fish and shellfish just 6 percent.
How one contaminated cow can infect millions of pounds of hamburgers
So what's driving these massive food-contamination outbreaks? One possibility is that inspectors are simply getting better at detecting and tracking cases when they do occur. But many experts argue these big outbreaks are one unintended side effect of the centralization of the food industry.
This is just a horrifying paragraph about food safety in America
Salmonella is fairly pervasive in raw chicken, so the USDA sets performance standards rather than require all chicken be salmonella-free. That in itself is fair enough. (Cooking the meat thoroughly at 165°F should kill the bacteria, though this isn't always done.) Yet up until last week, those standards only applied to whole chickens — not to cut-up chicken parts, which are widely sold.
What happens when you have to recall Mars bars from across 55 countries?
Confectioner Mars has ordered a huge recall of fun size Mars, Snickers and Milky Way bars after a customer discovered a small piece of plastic in a Snickers bar in Germany. The plastic was traced back to a faulty machine in a factory in the Netherlands and the recall was made across 55 countries.
Your Produce Is About to Get a Lot Safer to Eat
You'll probably see way fewer food recalls in the future.
‘My Baby Almost Died’: Formula Scandal Sends Shudders Through France
It would take three recalls and many weeks for the scope of the problem to finally become clear, stoking public outrage over what has become known in France as “l’affaire Lactalis.” In one of the biggest recalls of its kind, the company has pulled more than 7,000 tons of potentially contaminated baby formula and other powdered milk products across more than 80 countries...
Foodborne Illnesses and Recalls on the Rise
The last word a manufacturer wants to hear is “recall”. During 2017, recalls involved everything from salad mix contaminated with a dead bat to hash browns infused with shredded golf balls.
The 8 Weirdest Food Recalls in America
Federal health officials are responsible for taking the reins when everything from bits of plastic to bat remains show up in the foods we chow down on every day. Some of those recalls are run through the Food and Drug Administration, and others come down from the US Department of Agriculture. Those recalls can range from peculiar to downright baffling.
Food Recalls Europe
The central goal of the European Commission's food safety policy is to ensure a high level of protection of human health and consumers' interests in relation to food, taking into account diversity, including traditional products, whilst ensuring the effective functioning of the internal market.
Food Recalls UK
To ensure food safety is monitored at every stage of the food chain, the Agency provides advice, practical support materials and funding for inspection and sampling programmes at a national and local level.
Food Recalls US
Food Safety News is a daily Web-based newspaper dedicated to reporting on issues surrounding food safety. Here we have created one place that pulls it all together for the food safety community and fills a void in our food safety system. It is about using the Web to put as much available food safety information in one place as is possible.
Food Recalls Canada
consumption of the food could cause serious health consequences. The CFIA classifies recalls based on the level of health risk associated with the food product being recalled.
Food Safety Tech
Food Safety Tech publishes news, technology, trends, regulations, and expert opinions on food safety, food quality, food business and food sustainability.
FoodSafety.gov
FoodSafety.gov is the gateway to food safety information provided by government agencies.
FoodNavigator.com
FoodQualityNews.com is a daily online news service available as a free-access website and provides daily and weekly newsletters to subscribers. The service seeks out news stories and data of value to decision-makers in food and beverage development in Europe.
USDA
This page contains summary data on active recall cases regarding the food industry.
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