Food Safety News Mon 4/27/2020

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Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Food safety helped spur dream of greenhouses on urban rooftops By Coral Beach on Apr 27, 2020 12:05 am “We are farmers who live in apartments.” Thus begins an introduction to Gotham Greens, a large U.S. greenhouse farm. No, this isn’t the typical farm set in a rural region of the United States. And the farmers aren’t clad in overalls driving expensive farm equipment through fields of crops, many of which are being grown... Continue Reading FDA sends warning letters to companies across the U.S. By News Desk on Apr 27, 2020 12:03 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 Spain and Italy clamp down on potentially unsafe products By News Desk on Apr 27, 2020 12:01 am Spanish authorities have seized 100 kilograms of meat suspected to be unfit for human consumption. Guardia Civil detained the 220 pounds of products in a town in the Gúdar-Javalambre region of the Teruel province as they were in a vehicle lacking the correct refrigeration conditions and without appropriate sanitary documentation. The driver of the vehicle... Continue Reading Fruit juice recalled because of high patulin levels By Joe Whitworth on Apr 26, 2020 04:35 pm A bottled fruit juice from Australia has been recalled in three countries due to high levels of patulin. The Centre for Food Safety (CFS) in Hong Kong announced last week that a sample of the drink imported from Australia was contaminated with the mycotoxin. Patulin can be found in damaged or moldy fruits. If contaminated... Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: Oh Corona! By Dan Flynn on Apr 26, 2020 02:08 pm Is the best of the free life behind us now and are the good times really over for good? –Merle Haggard Opinion When the White House announced its “Slow the Spread” plan on March 16, we all went home and stayed there. It was a crashing of the economy that had the “consent of... Continue Reading