Food Safety News Sat 8/1/2020

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Food Safety News
Sat 8/1/2020 4:02 AM

Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Experts share regional and global COVID-19 insight By Joe Whitworth on Aug 01, 2020 12:05 am The Coronavirus pandemic is more of a food security and trade problem than a food safety issue, according to experts. The “COVID-19 & Food Safety Global Summit” was organized by the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP). David Tharp, executive director of IAFP, and Bill Marler, managing partner at Marler Clark LLP PS, welcomed attendees from... Continue Reading FDA, CDC say Thomson onions behind mysterious Salmonella outbreak By Coral Beach on Jul 31, 2020 08:59 pm Federal officials in the U.S. say a California company will be recalling red onions because a Salmonella Newport outbreak has been traced to them, but as of Friday night that recall was not posted. The red onions from Thomson International Inc. are the likely source of the outbreak, which has sickened more than 500 people... Continue Reading Sysco recalls red onions in Canada because of Salmonella link; U.S. mum By News Desk on Jul 31, 2020 02:23 pm Editor’s note: After this story published the U.S. Food and Drug administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted outbreak updates naming Thomson International, a California company, as the source of implicated red onions. Read our coverage here. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, as of Thursday there have been... Continue Rea