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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Food Safety and Nutrition (CFSAN) has updated its Education Resource...
Mar 28, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Henry Avocado Corporation is voluntarily recalling California-grown whole avocados sold in bulk at retail stores because they have the...
The Tennessee Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoE) receives funding to assist state and local health departments on a...
Most reported foodborne outbreaks occur in retail food establishments like restaurants. A recent MMWR said that from 2014 to 2016, 16...
The following guidance is from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Among those affected by flooding in the Central and...
The CDC and USDA released a new infographic on cooking chicken liver safely. The text of the infographic is below. See the full...
Mar 25, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), other federal agencies, and state partners are investigating a multistate...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released its “Strategy for the Safety of Imported Food” which outlines the agency’s...
Mar 18, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing food safety recommendations for those...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Food Safety and Nutrition (CFSAN) has updated its Education Resource Library to include the 2017 FDA Food Code in the online catalog from which you may order print publications using a “shopping cart” function, and/or download materials in PDF format. To place an order, go to […]
Henry Avocado Corporation is voluntarily recalling California-grown whole avocados sold in bulk at retail stores because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Henry Avocado is issuing this voluntary recall out of an abundance of caution due to positive test results on environmental samples taken during a routine government inspection at its California […]
The Tennessee Integrated Food Safety Centers of Excellence (CoE) receives funding to assist state and local health departments on a one-on-one basis. The CoE can offer the following consultation services: enteric disease interviews interview tracking databases (the CoE uses REDCap) cluster investigations using PFGE/WGS outbreak investigations detection and response stool collection food and...
Most reported foodborne outbreaks occur in retail food establishments like restaurants. A recent MMWR said that from 2014 to 2016, 16 state and local public health departments reported 404 of these kinds of outbreaks to CDC’s National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS). Most of the outbreaks were of viral illnesses, such as norovirus. This is […]
The following guidance is from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): Among those affected by flooding in the Central and Southern Plains of the U.S. are farmers and their fields of crops grown or stored for human consumption. Although the FDA recognizes that there are few, if any crops growing right now, crops that […]
The CDC and USDA released a new infographic on cooking chicken liver safely. The text of the infographic is below. See the full infographic here. Chefs, Cooks, and Caterers: Cook Chicken Liver Like It’s Chicken (It Is): Cook Chicken Liver to 165°F Always Cook Chicken Liver All the Way through Use a food thermometer (you can’t tell […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), other federal agencies, and state partners are investigating a multistate outbreak linked to ground turkey products produced by Butterball, LLC. Six people from three states have been infected with Salmonella Schwarzengrund linked to Butterball brand ground turkey. Butterball recalled more than 78,000 pounds of ground turkey products […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released its “Strategy for the Safety of Imported Food” which outlines the agency’s comprehensive approach to helping ensure the safety of food imported into the United States. The U.S. imports about 15 percent of its overall food supply from more than 200 countries or territories, with 13.8 million food […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing food safety recommendations for those who may be impacted by winter storms in the Central to Northern Plains regions of the U.S. The National Weather Service reports an intense storm across the Central Plains that will continue to bring blizzard conditions […]
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