January 2015

I listened in on the press conference today held by U.S. Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) and U.S. Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) who today introduced the Safe Food Act of 2015, which would create a single, independent food safety agency.

Currently food safety oversight is split up among 15 different agencies, resulting in a patchwork where

Washington Beef, LLC, a Toppenish, Wash., establishment, is recalling 1,620 pounds of boneless  beef trim product that may be contaminated with  E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

The following boneless beef product produced on Nov. 28, 2012, is subject to recall:  60 lb. bulk packs

Molly Rosbach of the Yakima Herald stepped into the tragedy that often is Listeria this morning with two stories: Listeria monocytogenes is one nasty bug and Listeria recall: How a web of oversight still couldn’t prevent an outbreak.  I had a couple of things to say:

Based on his experience with companies of all

CDC collaborated with public health officials in several states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infections. Results from this investigation indicated that bean sprouts produced by Wonton Foods, Inc. were the likely source of this outbreak.

A total of 115 persons infected with the outbreak