In the News
In the News
| Date | In The News | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 2012 |
''Tainted juice episode calls FDA capabilities into question'' "The Food and Drug Administration is holding all orange juice being imported into the United States at the border while it tests for contamination with a fungus-killing chemical. The action is lowering stock prices for companies that sell orange juice and raising questions about the ability of the overstretched agency to protect the safety of the U.S. food system, critics say." |
Food Hazards |
| Jan 11, 2012 | "There were 16 significant or unusual multistate outbreaks of foodborne illnesses in the U.S. in 2011, with five of them involving fresh produce, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual year in review." | Food Hazards |
| Jan 10, 2012 |
''Cantaloupe processor largely ignored FDA guidelines, probe finds'' "A listeria outbreak that killed 30 people and sickened 146 others might have been avoided if a Colorado cantaloupe processor had followed U.S. guidelines and washed the fruit in chlorinated water, a congressional investigation found." |
Food Hazards |
| Dec 21, 2011 |
''McDonalds dumps egg supplier after safety, cruelty concerns'' "McDonald's said on Friday it dumped a McMuffin egg supplier after a government agency found filthy conditions and "unacceptable rodent activity," and an animal rights group exposed cruel treatment of the chickens." |
Food Hazards |
| Dec 21, 2011 |
''Tiny listeria survivor comes home for Christmas'' "The premature girl from Fishers, Ind., is one of the tiniest victims of last summer’s deadly listeria outbreak in cantaloupe, which sickened 146 people, including 30 who died." |
Food Hazards |
| Dec 14, 2011 |
''FDA faulted over state inspections'' "The Food and Drug Administration is relying more often on states to inspect food plants but is failing to properly monitor those state inspections or follow through on their findings, the Department of Health and Human Services watchdog has concluded." |
Food Hazards |
| Dec 9, 2011 |
''The Surprising Ingredient In Raw Cookie Dough That Could Make You Sick'' "That's the lesson from a new study of a 2009 outbreak of E. coli bacteria, which sickened 77 people, most of them teenage girls and children. The outbreak was traced back to eating raw Nestlé Toll House cookie dough." |
Food Hazards |
| Dec 8, 2011 |
''E. coli report cites lettuce in outbreak'' "Romaine lettuce from one harvest at a single farm was the likely culprit of the E. coli outbreak that sickened 60 people across 10 states this fall, according to a federal report released Wednesday." |
Food Hazards |
| Dec 8, 2011 |
''Lettuce from one farm blamed for E. coli outbreak'' "The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined that romaine lettuce from a single farm is likely to blame for an E. coli outbreak in Missouri and nine other states." |
Food Hazards |
| Dec 4, 2011 |
''Omaha man sues for listeria contamination'' "An Omaha man who says he was made ill with listeriosis from contaminated Colorado cantaloupe is suing the grower, the distributor, a lab that audited the farm for food safety and Kroger Co., the owner of Baker's Supermarket, where he bought the contaminated melon." |
Food Hazards |
| Dec 1, 2011 |
''Listeria outbreak traced to Colorado leaves damaged survivors in its wake'' "The listeria outbreak from Colorado grower Jensen Farms' cantaloupe has killed 29 people nationwide — eight in Colorado — and caused one miscarriage. Dozens more people, including Mike Hauser, have been irreparably damaged by an especially vicious bacterium." |
Food Hazards |
| Nov 24, 2011 |
''Food safety inspections give false sense of security'' "A Colorado cantaloupe farm linked by federal regulators to one of the deadliest food outbreaks since the 1920s was graded as having “superior” safety practices just one month before consumers became ill from eating the fruit." |
Food Hazards |
| Nov 21, 2011 |
''Criminal charges hard to pin on farm where listeria-tainted cantaloupes originated'' "Jensen Farms and its owners remain under threat of criminal prosecution for the cantaloupe listeria outbreak that has killed 29 people, but the history of even the most scandalous food poisonings shows such charges are rare." |
Food Hazards |
| Nov 21, 2011 |
''Target scrambles to line up new egg suppliers'' "Egg shortages were reported at some Target stores after the retailer ended its relationship with a producer accused of animal cruelty, and the company scrambled Monday to line up new suppliers before Thanksgiving." |
Food Hazards |
| Jul 11, 2013 |
''Source of Listeria Outbreak Linked to Wisconsin Cheesemaker Still Uncertain, Company Says'' "Inspectors haven't yet determined the source of a Midwest listeria outbreak linked to a Wisconsin cheesemaker, the company's president said." |
Food Safety |
| Jul 9, 2013 |
''Listeria Illness, Death Tied to Wisconsin-made Crave Brothers Cheese'' "One person has died, a pregnant woman has miscarried and three others have been hospitalized after eating contaminated soft cheese from an award-winning Wisconsin cheese operation, officials said Monday. The death was in Minnesota, while the illnesses — from Listeria monocytogenes — were reported in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration." |
Food Safety |
| Jul 8, 2013 |
''After Death, Minn. Health Dept. Warns of Listeria in Soft Cheese'' A Listeria outbreak linked to a soft, Brie-style cheese has sickened two people in Minnesota. And one of the victims has died. |
Food Safety |
| Jul 1, 2013 |
''FDA Detains Pomegranate Seeds From Turkey Tied to Hepatitis Outbreak'' Food and Drug Administration officials say they will detain shipments of pomegranate seeds imported from Turkey after an investigation identified the fruit as a common link in an outbreak of acute hepatitis A that has sickened nearly 130 people in the U.S. |
Food Safety |
| Jun 27, 2013 |
''Iowa Lab Helps Ensure Food Safety'' Des Moines, Iowa native Ardin Backous is director of food operations in North America for Eurofins, a Belgian company. He helps the global food-testing company ensure the food consumers buy at the grocery store is safe, and that the nutrition value labels so many rely upon are accurate. |
Food Safety |
| Jun 25, 2013 |
''Will New Laws Make Your Food Safer?'' "Foodborne illnesses, which also include food poisoning, sicken about one in six Americans every year, leading to 128,000 hospitalizations, and an estimated 3,000 deaths. Despite improved techniques to help trace the sources of food contamination, current food safety regulations have not prevented dangerous contamination from happening in the first place." |
Food Safety |
| Jun 3, 2013 |
''Hepatitis A Outbreak Linked to Oregon Berry Farm'' "The Food and Drug Administration is investigating an outbreak of hepatitis A linked to a frozen organic berry mix sold by an Oregon company." |
Food Safety |
| May 28, 2013 |
''On the Front Lines of Food Safety'' "With piles of fresh strawberries beckoning consumers at markets and stores this season, an alliance of a major retailer, fruit growers and farm workers has begun a program to promote healthy produce and improve working conditions." |
Food Safety |
| Apr 26, 2013 |
''FDA Detains Imports of Mexican Cucumbers After Linking Them to Illnesses in 18 States'' The Food and Drug Administration is detaining imports of cucumbers from a Mexican company after they were linked to salmonella illnesses in 18 states. |
Food Safety |
| Mar 14, 2013 |
''Estimate: 1 in 6 Americans Will Get Food Poisoning This Year'' It is estimated that one in six Americans will get sick from food poisoning this year. That's 48 million people. And the grim reality: some will suffer the rest of their life and others will die. The Food and Drug Administration wants to stop foodborne illness at the source with proposed changes to the way food is grown and processed . In Chicago Monday and Tuesday, the public is invited to weigh in. |
Food Safety |
| Jan 31, 2013 |
USDA to Announce New School Snack Food Standards USDA to announce new updates to nutritional standards for school snack foods and beverages. |
Food Safety |
