Food Safety News - 12/23/2020

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Funding points to some likely food safety priorities for 2021 By Dan Flynn on Dec 23, 2020 12:06 am With federal food safety programs spread across the government, it’s always difficult to follow when things are coming together at the last minute. But this year was even more confusing than most because: First there was the Fiscal Year 21 Omnibus Appropriations Package that Congress passed and the president signed this past week; then came... Continue Reading Northern Irish home cooks nervous ahead of Christmas meal By News Desk on Dec 23, 2020 12:04 am A quarter of home cooks are nervous about cooking the Christmas meal, according to research by “safefood.” The online poll of more than 300 adults across Northern Ireland in late November also found that one in six people aged between 18 and 34 years old will be cooking their first Christmas dinner this year. Safefood... Continue Reading IAFP extends abstract deadline because of COVID-19 impact on lab operations By News Desk on Dec 23, 2020 12:03 am The International Association for Food Protection’s program committee is now accepting abstracts submitted with “incomplete data” by trough Jan. 19, 2021. However, the complete data must be submitted by April 6 2021, to be included for presentation at IAFP 2021. This decision comes after a recognition that because of laboratory closures and the reduction of... Continue Reading E coli O157:H7 outbreak likely caused by leafy greens of unknown origin is over By News Desk on Dec 22, 2020 06:22 pm Forty confirmed cases of E. coli O157:H7 sent 20 people to hospitals in 19 states in an outbreak linked to leafy greens. But the specific type or brand remains unknown and the outbreak is over, reports the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An investigation by the CDC and the Food and Drug Administration continues. Four... Continue Reading FDA slams Whole Foods for repeatedly failing to include allergens on labels By Coral Beach on Dec 22, 2020 02:45 pm Having built itself up to be one of the nation’s best known healthy eating grocery chains, Whole Foods Market is on warning from the FDA about repeated problems with allergen labeling on its products. The warning, posted today but dated Dec. 16, references more than two dozen allergen labeling product recalls initiated by Whole Foods... Continue Reading