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Food Sellers Treating Tomatoes Like Hot Potatoes
[salmonella] [food safety] [food poisoning] [bacteria] [contaminated]
"This outbreak, the FDA is clearly making an effort to do better to inform consumers," said Sarah Klein, attorney in the food-safety program for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a consumer advocacy group. ...
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Most think U.S. food safe, import concerns
[food safety] [Research]
BOSTON, June 13 (UPI) -- In spite of several recent food safety incidents, most U.S. adults asked say they are confident U.S.-produced food is safe but imported food is a concern. ... The telephone survey of 1,509 U.S. adults by ICR/International Communications Research of Media, conducted May 12 and June 1 -- before the tomato recall -- has a margin of error of 2.9 percentage points....
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Memo To Unbelievers: GM Crops Safe And Sound
[GM food] [food safety] [farmers] [Engineering]
Senator Siewert was applauding the move by WA Premier Alan Carpenter to follow SA Premier Mike Rann in continuing their state-based bans on GM food crops. ... He recalled that Mothers Against Genetic Engineering appeared before his inquiry....
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Repelling the attack of the tainted tomatoes
[organic] [food safety] [bacteria] [food poisoning] [contamination] [Salmonella] [farming] [food borne]
But everyone in the food chain shares responsibility for food safety and quality. ... "If even 50 percent of meat and poultry consumed in the United States were irradiated, the potential impact of food-borne disease would be a reduction [of] 900,000 cases and 300 deaths [a year]," according to Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research at the University of Minnesota....
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Molecular Analysis of the Enterobacter sakazakii O-Antigen Gene Locus
[Food Safety] [Food Science] [Food borne] [Hygiene] [Microbiology] [Research]
Centres for Food Safety and Food-borne Zoonomics, UCD Veterinary Sciences Centre, 1 School of Agriculture, Food Science & Veterinary Medicine, 3 Conway Institute of Biomolecular & Biomedical Research, 2 School of Public Health & Population Sciences, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland, 5 Institute for Food Safety & Hygiene, Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich, Switzerland 4...
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Comparison of Broth Microdilution, Etest, and Agar Disk Diffusion Methods for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Lactobacillus
[Food Science] [Microbiology] [Hygiene]
BOKU?University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Department of Food Science and Technology, Division of Food Microbiology and Hygiene, Gregor Mendel Straße 33, A-1180 Vienna, Austria, 1 Division of Food Quality Assurance, Muthgasse 18, A-1190 Vienna, Austria, 2 Ghent University, Faculty of Sciences, Laboratory of Microbiology, K. ...
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Chitin Hydrolysis by Listeria spp., Including L. monocytogenes
[food processing] [food borne] [Microbiology]
Listeria spp., including the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes , are ubiquitous microorganisms in the environment and thus are difficult to exclude from food processing plants. ... Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark...
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FDA urged to ban 8 food dyes
[Food Safety] [additives] [chemicals]
"Also note that the European Food Safety Agency has a similar view as FDA's." ... Center for Science in the Public Interest:...
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New aseptic technology delivers high outputs, says Cryovac
[Food Technology] [chemical] [machine] [equipment]
13-Jun-2008 - Sealed Air Cryovac said they have designed, in partnership with Catelli Food Technology (CFT), a film for aseptic packs that allows high machine outputs and is robust enough to sustain handling and distribution despite reduced material. ... The company said the film is suited to high acid applications such as tomato sauce, fruit and juices and is designed to run on the Cryovac Flavour Mark Antares equipment, a vertical form-film-seal machine that uses multi-rib seal technology....
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No risk to consumers from Bisphenol A, says ECB
[Chemicals] [Food Safety] [Research] [Additives] [Contaminants]
The European Food Safety Authority ( EFSA ) recently announced its decision to review its previous advice on safe levels of BPA in food packaging and provide updates on its deliberations, following assessments from Canada and the US. ... The bureau, one of the seven scientific institutes in the European Commission's Joint Research Centre (JRC), published its updated EU Risk Assessment Report on BPA this week....
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'Questions Remain' on Safety of U.S. Beef - N.Y. Times
[food safety] [farmers] [farm]
Agriculture Department's handling of mad cow disease and how rigorously it enforces food-safety rules. ... The company said it was losing US$40,000 a day and had to lay off 50 employees, but the department refused to allow the tests, saying such testing would "imply a consumer safety aspect that is not scientifically warranted," the report said....
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USDA CONSUMER ALERT: Keeping Food Safe During an Emergency
[Food Safety] [Bacteria] [contaminated]
"Power outages can occur at any time of the year and it often takes from a few hours to several days for electricity to be restored to residential areas," said USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety Dr. ...
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Lawmakers approve subpoenas over food testing
[food safety] [salmonella] [food borne] [contamination] [TOOLS]
After the 10-0 vote to issue the subpoenas, lawmakers heard from an array of witnesses critical of the FDA's strategy for improving food safety. ... TOOLS...
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Tomato growers panic over possible link to 17-state salmonella outbreak
[salmonella] [farms] [Food Safety] [food poisoning] [bacteria] [contaminated]
This is right when their product should be coming to market, and everyone is saying don't buy it," said Jaydee Hanson, a policy analyst at the Center for Food Safety, a Washington-based nonprofit. ... If consumers stop buying tomatoes, the state's tomato industry could lose more than $40 million, said Doug Archer, associate dean for the Institute of Food and Agricultural Science at the University of Florida in Gainesville....
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Woman power at UP Los Baos
[Food Science] [research]
The agricultural Systems, Food Science, Animal and Dairy Science and Crop Protection Clusters were formally established. ... According to online sources, 92 percent of UPLBs land is dedicated to research and consists of a forest reserve, field laboratories and greenhouses spread out across Laguna. ...
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SIR Corp. Responds to U.S. Tomato Warning By Using Only Vine Ripened or Locally-Grown Product
[Salmonella] [food safety] [equipment]
In formulating the forward-looking statements contained herein, management has assumed that business and economic conditions affecting SIR's restaurants and the Fund will continue substantially in the ordinary course, including without limitation with respect to industry conditions, general levels of economic activity (including in downtown Toronto), regulations (including regarding employees, food safety, tobacco and alcohol), weather, taxes, foreign exchange rates and interest rates, that there will be no pandemics or other outbreaks of disease or safety issues affecting humans or animals or...
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Neogen Plans to Double R&D Staff, Efforts
[Food Safety] [research] [bacteria] [nutritional]
The company's Food Safety Division markets dehydrated culture media, and diagnostic test kits to detect foodborne bacteria, natural toxins, genetic modifications, food allergens, drug residues, plant diseases and sanitation concerns. ... Neogen Plans to Double R&D Staff, Efforts...
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