Food Safety News Mon 1/20/2020

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Food Safety News
Mon 1/20/2020 4:01 AM

Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Marler ups the ante on meat industry; petitions USDA to ban 31 Salmonella strains By Dan Flynn on Jan 20, 2020 12:05 am Attorneys representing the Center for Science in the Public Interest sued USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service in 2014 because the agency would not declare the most dangerous Salmonella strains as adulterants. But after only about 60 working days, the same attorneys cited Civil Procedure Rule 41 A to get the U.S. District Court for... Continue Reading Faces of Food Safety: Meet Christina Hastings of the FSIS By U.S. Department of Agriculture on Jan 20, 2020 12:03 am Christina Hastings, a relief consumer safety inspector (CSI) in the Raleigh district, exemplifies all of FSIS’ core values — Accountable, Collaborative, Empowered and Solutions-Oriented, and she puts them into practice each day she performs her duties. Hastings explains that CSIs must possess and practice all the values because they are the standards that the Agency... Continue Reading FDA warns fresh fruit company, seasoning firm about serious violations By News Desk on Jan 20, 2020 12:01 am As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its jurisdiction. Some letters are not posted for public view until weeks or months after they are sent. Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Warning letters often are not issued until a company... Continue Reading FDA should require recall of unsafe tuna to protect consumers By Guest Contributor on Jan 20, 2020 12:00 am Opinion A recently announced interpretation of authority on mandatory recalls weakens food safety. The Food and Drug Administration’s decision late last year not to order a mandatory recall of yellowfin tuna that sickened at least 50 people in 11 states threatens to undermine a crucial tool of last resort to protect consumers from hazardous food.... Continue Reading

 

[JC in GB]

It really looks like our government is trying to kill us. When did food profits outweigh food safety? This will end up with multitudes of preventable illness.