Food Safety News Fri 6/5/2020

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Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. USDA spends $5 million on SNAP fraud investigation SD newspaper would have done for free By Dan Flynn on Jun 05, 2020 12:16 am A year ago the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 6-3 vote that USDA can keep secrets about its most costly program. It was last June that the Supreme Court denied the Sioux Falls Argus Leader’s Freedom of Information Act request about the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP for marketing purposes. South Dakota’s largest... Continue Reading Criteria used to exclude people could change outbreak conclusions By Joe Whitworth on Jun 05, 2020 12:15 am Researchers have used an outbreak a decade ago to look at how decisions on excluding sick and healthy people from investigations could change the conclusions reached. Criteria to include or exclude cases can help increase the efficiency of epidemiological analyses and traceback, but they can also affect the investigator’s ability to implicate a suspected food... Continue Reading Police investigate beverage tampering in Germany By News Desk on Jun 05, 2020 12:14 am Two women needed immediate medical treatment after drinking beverages that had been tampered within Germany, according to police. In March and April, there were four incidents in two food markets of different retail chains in the west of Munich. An as-yet-unidentified individual introduced a lethal dose of toxic substances from the group of solvents into... Continue Reading