Food Safety News Fri 1/10/2020

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Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Federal agencies join efforts for electronic home for biotech regs By News Desk on Jan 10, 2020 12:05 am The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday launched a unified website for biotechnology regulation. The agencies timed the rollout to coincide with January 2020’s observance of National Biotechnology Month. New forms of biotechnology allow for the modification of living organisms, such as plants or animals, in order... Continue Reading What’s behind the New Swine Slaughter Inspection System? By Chuck Jolley on Jan 10, 2020 12:03 am Q&A Analysis The Hill, a Washington-based news publication, recently published a story about the New Swine Slaughter Inspection System (NSIS), an outgrowth of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) HACCP-Based Inspection Model Project (HIMP) with these warnings: “A new rule . . . would reduce the number of government food safety... Continue Reading Researchers warn about risk of eating wild mushrooms By Joe Whitworth on Jan 10, 2020 12:01 am There is growing interest in collecting wild fungi in Ireland but this is not supported by an appreciation of the associated dangers, according to researchers. The issue constitutes a growing national health threat, wrote Dr. Douglas Hamilton and Dr. Gerard Meagher, from the department of public health, HSE Midlands in the first edition of Epi... Continue Reading Recalled hard boiled eggs prompt recall of some trail mix, protein snacks By News Desk on Jan 09, 2020 01:32 pm The Tennessee company Fresh Location is recalling Protein Snack Trays and Protein Trail Mixes because of possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. The affected product may have been delivered in the following states through convenience stores, micro-markets, hospitals, hotels and vending machines: Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Virginia, Indiana and Mississippi. The company... Continue Reading