Food Safety News Sun 8/30/2020

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Food Safety News
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Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Food safety brass over summer were taking COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 calls By Dan Flynn on Aug 30, 2020 12:05 am Unlike the first 90 days or so of the coronavirus pandemic, not every outsider who made contact with USDA’s top Food Safety and Inspection Service executives in June wanted to talk about COVID-19. Nor was normalcy making a comeback during the summer months as the only contact outsiders had with FSIS Administrator Paul Kiecker or... Continue Reading Researchers use machine learning to tackle food poisoning By News Desk on Aug 30, 2020 12:03 am Scientists at a university in Scotland have developed a technique which could help to identify the source of food poisoning in a better way than current methods. The technique relies on a new machine learning method – known as the Minimal Multilocus Distance (MMD) method – which can be used to train a computer to... Continue Reading U.S. company shipped peaches around the globe; Salmonella outbreak ongoing By News Desk on Aug 29, 2020 01:28 pm A California fruit company shipped peaches, now linked to a Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak in the U.S. and Canada, to at least 14 other countries around the world. The fresh peaches shipped by Wawona Packing Co. and Prima Wawona were distributed in bags and in bulk bins, according to an update from the Food and Drug... Continue Reading