Topic: David Acheson
seen in previous years, the incidence of many foodborne illnesses in the United States has leveled off since 2004, U.S. health officials announced Thursday.. "Progress has plateaued," Dr. Robert Tauxe, deputy director of the Division of Foodborne, Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases ...
Kraft, whose testing led to US pistachio recall, offers timeline of salmonella contaminationKraft Foods Inc., the company whose testing led to the nationwide pistachio recall, said Friday it first heard there was salmonella in its trail mix in late 2007, but could ...
Kraft found tainted trail mix last year, source not traced until MarchKraft Foods Inc., the company whose testing led to the nationwide pistachio recall, said Friday it first heard there was salmonella in its trail mix in late 2007, but could not ...
Still reeling from the national salmonella outbreak in peanuts, the Food and Drug Administration said central California-based Setton Farms, the nation's second-largest pistachio processor, was voluntarily recalling all of its 2008 crop - more than 1 million pounds of nuts. "Our advice ...
A basic error on the production lines of a California processing plant is thought to have contaminated its pistachios with salmonella, a top federal food safety official said yesterday.. Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, the nation's second-largest processor of the nut ...
The salmonella contamination behind the recall of 1 million pounds of pistachios may have come from raw nuts involved in processing at a California plant, according to the company that produced the nuts.. "We are not dealing with an outbreak here," Dr ...
FDA warns consumers against eating pistachios amid salmonella scare; Calif. plant recalls nutsFederal food officials are warning people not to eat any food containing pistachios because of possible contamination by salmonella, in another food scare sure to rattle consumers already upset by ...
3/31/2009 Print E-mail U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said Monday night that the agency is investigating a salmonella contamination that could involve 1 million pounds of pistachios that were sold in at least 31 states.. "We are not ...
FDA seeks help from Pentagon, Homeland Security, to develop rapid test for salmonellaWanted: Must work fast.Send plans and specifications to Uncle Sam, care of the Food and Drug Administration.Frustrated that conventional lab methods can now take as long as nine ...
FDA says more authority from Congress, tighter leafy greens standards would safeguard produceThe nation's fresh produce would be safer if U.S. farmers were required to adopt strict standards for growing leafy greens similar to industry-written ones devised for California growers ...