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AU: Consumer alert: frozen vegetable product recalls
Food Standards Australia New Zealand:Â FSANZ today [9/07/2018] warned vulnerable people to check their freezers for recalled frozen vegetable products that are possibly contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
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US: Texas officials report dozens sick from parasitic infections
Photo: Melanie Moser / US CDCP
Food Safety News: Texas officials warned the public Monday about a seasonal increase in infections from Cyclospora parasites, reporting there have been 56 confirmed cases since the beginning of May.
Neither this week’s outbreak notice nor a June 21 health advisory from the Texas State Department of Health Services (DSHS) referenced an ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak in four other states. At least 185 people are infected in that outbreak, which is associated with trays of pre-cut fresh vegetables from Del Monte.
Read the full article at the Food Safety News website
Further information:
Read the full News Release at the Texas Department of State Health Services website
Cyclosporiasis FAQ at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website
CA: Canadian study finds majority of teenagers need food safety education
New Food Magazine: A new study has uncovered a low level of awareness among youth around the proper precautions they need to take when it comes to handling food. The research from the University of Waterloo in Canada measured 32 different food-handling behaviours among Ontario high school students in grades 10 to 12 (around 15 to 18).
Read the full article at the New Food Magazine website
US: Dallas greenhouse growers say their leafy greens are safer
Food Safety News: Promoting its leafy greens as cleaner and safer for the planet and people, Eden Green Technology has struck a deal with Walmart to market its produce, which is grown without soil in vertical racks in greenhouses.
Read the full article at the Food Safety News website
US: Growers share food safety wish lists at Forbes AgTech Summit
Ashley Nickle / The Packer: SALINAS, Calif. – Better pathogen detection or a kill step would help growers sleep better at night, executives from two leafy greens companies said during a Forbes AgTech Summit panel June 27.
Read the full article at The Packer
US: Canal water likely source of E. coli in romaine-related outbreak
Coral Beach / Food Safety News:Â Federal officials say contaminated canal water near romaine lettuce growing fields is the likely source…
Read Article →US: Trump’s new plan to consolidate federal food safety efforts won’t work. Here’s why
Timothy D. Lytton / The Conversation: The Trump administration on June 21 unveiled an ambitious plan to consolidate federal food safety efforts within the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Currently, 15 agencies throughout the federal government administer 35 different laws related to food safety under the oversight of nine congressional committees. The administration calls this system “illogical” and “fragmented.”
Concern about this state of affairs has been fueling similar consolidation proposals for decades. But my research for a forthcoming book on the U.S. food safety system suggests…
Read the full story at The Conversation
VN: International assistance to enhance Việt food safety
Viet Nam News: HÀ NỘI – About 1,000 small-hold farmers will take capacity enhancing training on food safety offered by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in the next three years.
The IFC in partnership with New Zealand’s Foreign Affairs and Trade Aid Programme will assist from 10 to 20 farms to acquire GLOBAL GAP certification
Read more at vietnamnews.vn