Food Safety News Wed 10/7/2020

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Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Marijuana growers get pesticide options after Colorado’s Wild West era By Dan Flynn on Oct 07, 2020 12:05 am After Colorado’s Amendment 64 passed, making the recreational use of marijuana legal beginning on Jan. 1, 2014, the state went for almost two years without even some basic regulation of pesticides. It was a time pot growers with all sorts of pesticides would drench plants being grown over cement warehouse floors. Amendment 64 said only... Continue Reading Codex covers food hygiene and allergens in first ever virtual meeting By Joe Whitworth on Oct 07, 2020 12:03 am Work on food hygiene, allergens and support of food trade in Africa have been adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which recently met online for the first time in its history. The first part of the virtual meeting on Sept. 24 to 26 saw six areas of new work agreed upon. Further discussions are set... Continue Reading 2021 National Food Safety Education Conference abstract deadline coming soon By News Desk on Oct 07, 2020 12:02 am The Partnership for Food Safety Education, Fight BAC!, is looking for abstracts for the national consumer food safety education conference. Abstract submissions will be accepted through Oct. 14 2020. The 2021 virtual conference is titled “Now You Have my Attention: Hand Hygiene and Food Safety Education for Everyone.” The national consumer food safety education program... Continue Reading FSAI reviews 2019 work on food safety and fraud By News Desk on Oct 07, 2020 12:01 am The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) has reviewed the main activities of this past year which marked the agency’s 20th anniversary. The annual report covers enforcement, inspections, sampling, recalls, Brexit, and food fraud. FSAI also launched the authority’s 2019 to 2023 strategy and held a conference, “The Science of Food Safety – What’s our... Continue Reading