Food Safety News Thu 1/30/2020

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Food Safety News
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Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. China halts trade of wild animals due to coronavirus; WHO urges food safety measures By News Desk on Jan 30, 2020 12:05 am China has banned trading of wild animals until the novel coronavirus outbreak is brought under control. There are more than 6,000 confirmed cases with almost 7,000 more suspected infections and 132 deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The source of infection is still unknown. Most of those sick are in China but more... Continue Reading Bill permanently banning horse slaughter and limiting exports gets hearing By Dan Flynn on Jan 30, 2020 12:03 am As effective as the annual bans on USDA inspections of horse slaughter for human consumption have been, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-IL, and Rep. Vern Buchanan, R-FL want a more permanent solution. They’ve introduced H.R. 961, the Safeguard American Food Exports Act that deems “equine parts” as unsafe, a notion to which large parts of Asia... Continue Reading Soft cheese, rotten fish, undeclared allergens earn spots on enforcement list By News Desk on Jan 30, 2020 12:02 am The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed. Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below. Click on the links to view the full alerts. Import Alert Desc Text... Continue Reading Experts reflect on Spain’s Listeria outbreak By Joe Whitworth on Jan 30, 2020 12:01 am Nearly 700 professionals met in Seville this past week to talk about Spain’s largest ever Listeria outbreak, which occurred in 2019. The Minister of Health and Families, Jesús Aguirre, opened the International Symposium on the Andalusian Listeriosis outbreak that sickened more than 200 people. The listeriosis alert was started in mid-August and ended by mid-October.... Continue Reading