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UK: Bakery is fined £150,000 after using a filthy tennis racket to mash potatoes
Daily Mail: A filthy bakery has been fined more than £150,000 for mashing potatoes – with a tennis racket. [See pic!] Doce Bakers and Sweet Mahal, which shared the same premises, had an ongoing pest problem and filthy floors and equipment. Enfield Council officers were astonished to find a filthy, potato-covered tennis racket in a bowl of boiled spuds.
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US: Current audit exchanges are inefficient and are not interoperable – Trellis fixes that
Meet Trellis: Trellis helps companies get more ROI from their audit data. Trellis provides a produce-specific framework to electronically exchange authenticated food safety audit data
Read Article →AU: Red tape: Food safety rules go nuts
Weekly Times: A farmer has cracked his final walnuts last week, after a council ruled his drying practices were not meeting hygiene and safety standards similar to those used by restaurants, supermarkets and baby food processors.
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US: Stemilt’s Food Safety Manager given SQFI distinguished service award
PerishableNews.com: Stemilt’s food safety and scheduling manager, Eva Lauve, was recognized last week by the Safe Quality Food Institute (SQFI) with their Quality Achievement Award. Lauve, who has spent her entire 40-year career with Stemilt, was named recipient of the Distinguished Service Award, which is given to an individual who has freely shared time and expertise throughout the industry in the areas of food safety.
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AU: Food safety quiz
ABC Health & Wellbeing: What temperature should you cook chicken to be confident you won’t end up with a case of salmonella? How long can you store meat in the freezer and know it will still be good? And how concerned should you be about reheating a container of takeaway rice? To cap off Australian Food Safety Week, test your knowledge and find out the answers with our quiz.
Read Article →US: Briefly: Dirty Down Under — drug awareness — IAFP deadline
Food Safety News: Every hour of every day people around the world are living with and working to resolve food safety issues. Here is a sampling of current headlines for your consumption, brought to you today with the support of iwaspoisoned.com.
Brucella cases underscore this week’s theme
IAFP now accepting abstracts for 2018 conference
Down Under and dirty; RTE meals heavy on bacteria
Read the news update at foodsafetynews.com
Read Article →UK: Updated advice on businesses on protecting food and drink supply
Food Standards Agency: Revised guidance has been published for businesses on how to improve protections for food and drink supply. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) and the British Standards Institute have today published a revised guide for food businesses on how to improve protections for food and drink supply.
Download the full report at food.gov.uk
NZ: NZGAP GLOBALG.A.P. Equivalent
nzgap.co.nz: NZGAP is in the final stages of benchmarking to GLOBALG.A.P. version 5.1. The latest round of benchmarking includes some minor changes to wording and question categories from version 5.0. The updated standard, (NZGAP GLOBALG.A.P. Equivalent v6.1) will be available to growers in December and will be required for any NZGAP GLOBALG.A.P. Equivalent audits completed after 1st January 2018.
For more information visit nzgap.co.nz
NZ: Hold the ginger: New food rules opens can of home-grown worms
stuff.co.nz: Is it a lemon harangue from the chamomile cops, or just commonsense food safety? New nationwide food safety rules are starting to bite at country markets, with compliance and annual fees threatening the small profits stall owners hope to make. Unlikely to be an exception, a pensioner on the KÄpiti Coast has been told she could face hefty fees simply because she uses store-bought ginger in her homemade herbal tea.
Read the full article at stuff.co.nz
US: Delta joins american in suspending use of LAX kitchen because of Listeria
Forbes: Two airlines have joined American Airlines in suspending the use of a catering facility at Los Angeles International Airport because of a listeria finding.
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