Food Safety News Tue 6/9/2020

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Food Safety News
Tue 6/9/2020 4:01 AM

Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Herbicides purchased for this planting season and ready for the field are now illegal By Dan Flynn on Jun 09, 2020 12:05 am Just as it was looking like American agriculture was going to survive the pandemic and planting was turning out successful, rural areas learned they were losing the weedkiller dicamba to protect the soybeans they’ve put the ground. Xtendimax, FeXapan, and Engenia the three dicamba herbicide brands or “labels” sold by Bayer, Corteva, and BASF, are no... Continue Reading Australia sees decline in Campylobacter and Salmonella By News Desk on Jun 09, 2020 12:03 am Rates of Campylobacter and Salmonella infections in Australia have almost halved since the lockdown because of the Coronavirus pandemic that began in March. The Food Safety Information Council revealed that since the COVID-19 shutdown started, reported rates of these infections per 100,000 people have declined compared to the past two years. This shows the effectiveness... Continue Reading Mom was right about not touching slime; researchers looking at pathogens in food facilities By Coral Beach on Jun 09, 2020 12:02 am New research underway seeks to determine how and where bacteria hide in food processing plants so that they can be eliminated, to the benefit of public health and the bottom line of food companies. The project involves scientists at Texas A&M, Stanford University and the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service U.S. Meat Animal Research Center’s pilot... Continue Reading Ciguatera cases linked to imported fish in New Zealand By Joe Whitworth on Jun 09, 2020 12:00 am Five people from two households in New Zealand became ill with ciguatera poisoning after eating fish imported from Fiji earlier this year. The outbreak in Christchurch affected three males of 19 to 58 years old and two females – one aged in her 40s and the other in her 50s. One person was hospitalized and... Continue Reading