Some chefs and bartenders in California are miffed about a new regulation restricting them from handling ready-to-eat foods with their bare hands. At the beginning of January, language in the state's food code changed from directing food ...
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I am betting your response to the headline was the same as when I read the news: HUH? The proposed Farm Bill has finally gathered the bicameral and bipartisan support of a conference committee. Food Safety News recently reported that ...
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Gusto Packing, a Montgomery, Ill. establishment, is recalling approximately 67,113 pounds of sliced, spiral ham products due to concerns about possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety ...
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Bakkavor, a UK-based chilled prepared foods manufacturer, has sold its Spring Valley Foods business in South Africa to In2food Group for an undisclosed sum. Established in 1995, Spring Valley Foods supplies fresh prepared fruit to Marks ...
A project funded by the Indiana Soybean Alliance (ISA) is helping to encourage Mexican meat processors to diversify their ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat meal offerings to include more U.S. poultry as a main ingredient. ISA – the ...
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Foodborne illness outbreaks result when two or more persons develop similar symptoms of illness (gastroenteritis) after eating a common food, or become ill after consuming food from a common source. Such events occur relatively frequently ...
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) received an "adequate" rating – the lowest passing grade – in the latest audit by the U.S. government to determine its equivalency on food safety standards, according to documents ...
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The 1998 Major League Baseball season will forever be remembered for "The Chase," first by Ken Griffey, Jr., and finally between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa, to top Roger Maris's home-run record of 61. "The Chase" brought beer-drinking and ...
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Last week, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) in the U.K. published its Forward Evidence Plan for 2014, outlining priorities for the coming year. The plan is meant to draw the attention of potential research funders and inform stakeholders. ...
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The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has issued an alert on turkey butterflies from Severnside Provisions in Newport, South Wales, as they have been processed in an unapproved establishment. On 21 December, the agency alerted local ...
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We have heard a variety of 3D printers including food-based 3D printers. Do you still remember the first commercial chocolate 3D printer which arrived back in 2011? Recently, more institutions join the food-based 3D printing. Back in ...
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JBT FoodTech, an American food processing machinery provider owned by JBT, has inked a deal valued in excess of $8m with a global frozen food provider to supply freezing technology solutions. Under the deal, JBT will supply and integrate ...
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Alfred Louie, a California-based food company, has halted production after the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors found unsanitary conditions at the premises. Eastern District of California Judge Garland E. Burrell has ...
Salaison Levesque Inc. is a ready-to-eat meat processing establishment located in Montreal, Quebec. CFIA said that adequate controls for food safety related to pre-operational inspections of sanitation procedures were not being reliably ...
Fourth Quarter Consolidated Operating Results Net sales for the fourth quarter were $291.7 million and increased $44.5 million, or 18.0%, compared to the prior year. Acquisitions, net of $0.3 million of intersegment eliminations, ...
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