Food Safety & Quality

Wawona Packing has recalled its bulk and prepackaged fruit products due to concerns about Listeria contamination.

Walmart, Trader Joe's fruit recalled in Listeria scare

By Jenni Spinner

A fruit packaging company is recalling peaches, plums, nectarines, and pluots due to contamination concerns; the recall is affecting Walmart, Trader Joe’s, Kroger, and other US retailers.

Cinnamon oil. Photo: Robert Hubner / WSU Photo Services

Cinnamon found to control non-O157 E.coli STEC

By Joseph James Whitworth

Cinnamomum cassia oil has the potential to be used as a natural antibacterial agent to control non-O157 STECs in food, according to Washington State University scientists.

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Singing about foodborne pathogens is "Weird"

By Jenni Spinner

With his latest single, comedy genius "Weird Al" Yankovic has accomplished what is likely an industry first: climbing to the top of the charts with a song about foodborne pathogens.

Food contaminant controls evaluated in Estonia

FVO finds shortcomings in Estonian audit

By Joseph James Whitworth

Controls for food contaminants are in place but with some shortcomings according to a Food and Veterinary Office (FVO) audit in Estonia.

Shimadzu's HPLC instrument

Shimadzu HPLC to improve lab workflow

By Joseph James Whitworth

Shimadzu Corporation has unveiled its integrated High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) system for labs with high throughput.

FoodQualityNews global food recall round-up July 11-17

Food Safety recall round-up 11-17 July

Recalls: Allergens, Salmonella and E.coli

By Joseph James Whitworth

This week in the recall round-up gallery the  reasons behind food withdrawals takes us to Belgium, France, Norway, Australia, Greece, Spain and Germany.

PURE Bioscience submits FCN for SDC antimicrobial ahead of Q1 2015 launch

PURE Bioscience submits FCN for antimicrobial

By Joseph James Whitworth

PURE Bioscience has submitted a Food Contact Notification (FCN) for its silver dihydrogen citrate (SDC) antimicrobial for raw poultry processing.

Lofthouse Cookies, a ConAgra Foods brand, is transitioning one of its plants to nut-free production.

ConAgra cookie production goes nut-free

By Jenni Spinner

Lofthouse Cookies, a ConAgra Foods brand, has transitioned its main bakery to nut-free production to accommodate demand for allergen-free products.

The event is in York, UK on 11-12 September

FSA and FERA to hold GMI meeting

By Joseph James Whitworth

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the Food and Environment Research Agency (Fera) are organising the Global Microbial Identifier (GMI) meeting on 11-12 September.

Photo: NIOSH

Lockout/tagout standard is most cited OSHA violation

By Joseph James Whitworth

Violation of lockout/tagout (LO/TO) rules was the most frequently cited infraction of an OSHA standard during 2012‒2013 in the food industry with penalties totaling more than $894,000.

IBM's novel approach to identifying contaminated food using sales data and public health reports

IBM video explains how it would work

IBM creates system to speed up outbreak investigations

By Joseph James Whitworth

A system that combines retail data with public health case reports could speed up outbreak investigations and provide better information on suspected products, according to IBM.

A label of one of the products recalled

USDA should shut down Foster Farms, say Congresswomen

By Joseph James Whitworth

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) should shut down Foster Farms poultry processing facilities until a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened over 600 people is stopped, according to two US Congresswomen.

FSA talks all things food safety with FQN

FSA: Horse meat was biggest incident in our history

By Joseph James Whitworth

The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) said the horse meat incident dominated last year and it is continuing to learn lessons from what it called ‘the biggest incident in its history’.

FVO gave recommendations to enhance the control system

Italian Salmonella controls evaluated by FVO

By Joseph James Whitworth

Salmonella National Control Programmes (SNCPs) in Italy have the required sampling frequency and correct sampling protocol but there are still some deficiencies, according to findings from the Food and Veterinary Office (FVO).

Bruker's impact II mass spectrometer

Bruker boosts resolution in updated mass spec

By Joseph James Whitworth

Bruker Corporation has launched an ultra-high resolution (UHR) quadrupole-time-of-flight (QTOF) mass spectrometer for applications such as pesticide screening.

FoodQualityNews global food recall June 26 - July 3

Food Safety recall round-up 27 June - 3 July

Recalls: Staphylococcus, spoilage and banned hormone

By Joseph James Whitworth

This week in the recall round-up gallery the reasons behind food withdrawals takes us to Canada, US, England, Australia,  France, Sweden and Germany.

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