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Poop label? Market food safety at retail, not fear
Food labels can be used to shock or shame, illuminate or inform, right-to-know versus hucksterism. It’s mainly hucksterism. And sometimes fraud. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today...
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Data? You can’t handle data; trust us we’re doing better
In 2012, XL Foods in Alberta sickened at least 18 people with E. coli O157:H7, and led to the largest beef recall in Canadian history; the huge slaughterhouse was subsequently bought by JBS of Brazil....
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40 years of U.S. Salmonella data now available
Forty years of data on a major cause of food poisoning now is available to the public, the food industry, and researchers in a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The...
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The sample has been taken, the results are in: now what?
My friend Margaret Hardin, vice president of technical services at IEH Laboratories & Consulting Group wrote an excellent column for Food Safety Magazine this month. Excerpts below: We spend a...
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Regulators mount up: raw milk producers aim to regulate themselves
I don’t care who does the regulating as long as the data is public, verifiable and producers are liable. There are benefits and faults with the many systems out there that could be largely remedied...
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Disney opens its food-safety secrets on Zebra devices
It was the end of Sept. 2007 when I got an invite to check out behind-the-scenes food safety activities at several Disney World kitchens at the resort in Florida. I was blown away. The Chicago Tribune...
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Market microbial food safety: New Australian app to electronically trace meat...
Developers of a new smartphone application say the app will make it possible to electronically trace livestock from the paddock through the saleyards, abattoirs and eventually the checkout. The new...
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Show me the data: FSIS to begin posting location-specific food safety data...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) will soon begin sharing new levels of food safety data specific to slaughter and processing facilities in the...
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Maybe IBM is good at some stuff: Grocery scanner data to speed investigations...
Foodborne illnesses, like salmonella, E. coli and norovirus infections, are a major public health concern affecting more than one out of six Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease...
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5 years later, Canada releases illness data; trends for Salmonella,...
The Public Health Agency of Canada, which was created to streamline various public health duties like providing meaningful data on foodborne illness and provide leadership on public health issues...
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