ACI’s 7th National Forum on Food-Borne Illness Litigation, in San Francisco Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Hilton San Francisco Financial District, San Francisco, CA
“Each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases.”
– 2011 Estimates from the Center for Disease Control and
The instant Order memorializes the Court’s instructions and rulings during the conference.
First, the Court granted Defendant Samuel Lightsey’s Motion to Continue. (Doc. 113.) The Parties shall confer and submit to the Court a joint proposed scheduling order no later than Wednesday, January 15, 2014, suggesting proposed trial dates to begin between July 7, 2014
Food Safety News reports, despite the somewhat commonplace occurrence of illness outbreaks associated with unpasteurized milk, the number of illnesses linked to drinking raw milk is much higher than those counted in outbreak reports, according to an analysis published by the Minnesota Department of Health on Wednesday.
Looking at 10 years of health department data
Yauk’s Specialty Meats, a Windsor, Colo., establishment, is recalling approximately 90,000 pounds of various meat and poultry products that were produced under insanitary conditions, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The following products are subject to recall:
New Directions for Food Safety: The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond
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Tentative Agenda
9:00 – 9:05am: Welcome remarks
9:05 – 9:50am:
The co-workers of William “Bill” Keene, a food safety pioneer admired by his peers in Oregon, across the country and around the world, are organizing a celebration of his life in Portland.
The event, for family, friends and colleagues, will be held Saturday, Dec. 14 at 1:00 p.m. at Mississippi Studios in North Portland.
Deloitte announced today that Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, currently serving as Under Secretary for Food Safety at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), will join Deloitte’s consumer products practice as a food safety senior advisor with Deloitte & Touche LLP. Dr. Hagen will advise Deloitte’s clients on increased regulatory requirements, food and product safety challenges,
“You want to stop the outbreak as quickly as possible to minimize the number of people who get sick,” Bill Keene
Bill passed away today. Over the past 20 years, Bill solved or helped solve many outbreaks, gaining the respect of his peers across the country and bolstering Oregon state’s stature as a leader in
My dear friend and video guy, Terry Tainter, was in South Africa in October when I was there for a food safety conference, so he had time to do a bit of video at the conference and on safari.
Bill Marler’s South Africa Food Safety Speech and Adventure from Marlerclark on Vimeo.
The 2013 Food Code is now out and the FDA has put on line a Summary comparing the 2009 and 2013 versions. Happy reading! From the FDA:
This Summary provides a synopsis of the textual changes from the 2009 FDA Food Code and the Supplement to the 2009 Food Code Chapters and Annexes to the 2013 edition. The primary intent of this record is to capture the nature of the changes rather than to identify every word or editing change. This record should not be relied upon as an absolute comparison that identifies each and every change.
General
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