Food Safety News

FDA says infant formulas are safe

The FDA tested 312 samples from 16 brands, but did not say in its report what brands it tested.

Ontario restaurant reopens after 86 people fall ill with Salmonella

Public health officials say cross contamination in a restaurant was responsible for a Salmonella outbreak that sickened a possible 86 people.

The Piper Arms restaurant in Stone Creek, Ontario, Canada, has finally reopened after being closed since April 13. There are 29 confirmed patients, 57 patients who are awaiting conformation,

UK salad sampling reveals low contamination rate

STEC was culture-confirmed in three samples and Salmonella was found once

Seafood, papayas among imports under greater scrutiny by FDA

The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.

Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as posted by the agency, are listed below.

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Canada and UK support food safety projects

Canada has announced support for a program designed to strengthen food safety and plant and animal health.

Funding of CAD $500,000 (U.S. $366,000) to the Standards and Trade Development Facility (STDF) will go toward improving the sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) capacity of the public and private

USDA issues public alert about pizza products because of recalled milk powder

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for meat and poultry products containing FDA-regulated dairy ingredients that may be contaminated with Salmonella. 

FSIS expects additional downstream products will be identified as this ingredient recall progresses. As more information becomes available,

E. coli outbreak linked to RAW FARM raw milk cheese declared over

More than half of the patients were younger than 5

FDA issues alert about blood clams in relation to hepatitis A outbreak

An outbreak of hepatitis A has spurred the FDA to issue a public alert about fresh-frozen blood clams imported from Ecuador and sold under the La Serranita brand.

The outbreak is under investigation by the New York State Department of Health and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The

Leader of food and drug officials' group says FDA needs to communicate better with states

“Notably, the very information FDA is constrained from sharing often originates with state agencies that gathered and first provided it to FDA” -- Steven Mandernach, executive director of AFDO

Horse meat behind E. coli O157 outbreak in Japan

Horse meat was the likely source of an E. coli outbreak in Japan but investigators have been unable to identify the contamination route.

Nestlé counts cost of infant formula recall

There was a one-off sales impact of $255 million

Review highlights need to focus attention on emerging pathogen

Evidence shows that exposure is often linked to eating contaminated freshwater fish and handling practices along the food chain.

Aquatiq Food Forum to spotlight risk, accountability and innovation in global food safety

Industry leaders to gather at September event focused on regulation, technology and preparedness

IFC: Treat food safety as an investment

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has released two reports on food safety and called for a broader and more long-term view of investments.

The first report evaluates the return on investment (ROI) of food safety management systems (FSMS) and the second shares lessons from IFC-supported clients.

Ghirardelli recalling powdered drink mixes because of Salmonella

Ghirardelli has recalled certain powdered beverage mixes. The recall was initiated following a recall initiated by California Dairies Inc. because of a concern of potential Salmonella contamination in milk powder, which was supplied to a third-party manufacturer and used as an ingredient in powdered beverage mixes.

Neither Ghirardelli, its third-party