Food Safety News Wed 3/18/2020

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Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Unclear if Jimmy John’s still implicated in outbreak; FDA posts new public notice By News Desk on Mar 18, 2020 12:05 am Having originally reported that an outbreak was linked to clover sprouts used by Jimmy John’s restaurants, the FDA now says the E. coli outbreak is related to products from Chicago Indoor Garden that were distributed to Whole Foods, Coosemans and other entities. The new public recommendation posted yesterday by the Food and Drug Administration informs... Continue Reading Amount of food-attributed Listeria cases rising but still low By Joe Whitworth on Mar 18, 2020 12:02 am The proportion of Listeria infections where a food source is identified is very small but increasing, according to researchers who looked at a 30-year period in England and Wales. Between 1981 and 2015, there were 5,252 cases of human listeriosis in the two countries recorded. It is not often a specific exposure is identified because... Continue Reading USDA leaders call for industry cooperation amidst ‘uncertain times’ By U.S. Department of Agriculture on Mar 18, 2020 12:01 am Contributed Editor’s note: Two of USDA’s top administrators have issued this statement to industry. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is rising to meet the challenges associated with the new coronavirus disease, Covid-19. As leaders of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service and Agricultural Marketing Service, we can assure you that... Continue Reading Organizers reschedule Food Safety Summit because of COVID-19 outbreak By News Desk on Mar 18, 2020 12:00 am The annual Food Safety Summit, generally scheduled for the first week of May, has been postponed until mid-October because of the outbreak of coronavirus. The summit had been set for May 4-7 at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, IL, in a Chicago suburb. Organizers set the new dates as Oct. 19-22 at... Continue Reading