Five Star Shellfish Inc. is recalling oysters from Canadian retailers because of possible Salmonella contamination.
The Prince Edward Island company distributed the Five Star branded oysters to retailers in Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario, according to the recall notice posted by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. There is a possibility the oysters were distributed to other provinces.
Three years after a major botulism scare involving whey protein concentrate used in infant formula and other food products, New Zealand’s parliament has unanimously passed the first reading of the Food Safety Law Reform Bill.
Oriental Packing Co., Inc., Miami, Florida is recalling approximately 377,000 lbs. of blended seasoning curry products because it is contaminated with lead. Lead can accumulate in the body over time and can cause serious and sometimes permanent adverse health consequences.
Selten was sentenced to 30 months in prison last year for selling horse meat as beef on a large scale for several years. This fraud was discovered by the Dutch food and consumer product safety authority NVWA early in 2013
A New Jersey company has expanded its recall of ground tumeric to include additional brands distributed nationwide. Excessive lead, which is particularly dangerous for pregnant women, infants and children, has been confirmed in the spice.
A factory producing more than 4,000 liters of spurious milk everyday using harmful chemicals like detergent power and supplying spurious product to local market and dairy companies was busted in Morena district of the Indian city of Bhopal.
Leading names in UK food and drink manufacture have joined a new initiative, run by the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH), to promote safety culture change in the sector.
Farmers and restaurant owners in Italy are celebrating the passage of new legislation that simplifies the donation of excess food in order to curb waste.
Approximately 100 tonnes of food is wasted each year across the EU. Earlier this year, France became the first country to pass legislation to reduce supermarket waste and force large retailers to donate unsold food.
Five new interdisciplinary research projects have been awarded a portion of £9 million to help increase the resilience of UK food systems. The projects integrate biological, environmental and social sciences to help ensure food security in the face of evolving worldwide markets, environmental and demographic changes, and threats posed by pests and diseases.
As a result of the evaluation of the available analysis results of the maize harvest 2015, GMP+ International – in collaboration with other collaborating scheme holders, has adjusted the risk profile for Aflatoxin B1. For Austria this means that its classification will be changed from risk ‘Low’ to ‘Medium’.
Two people were hospitalised due to an outbreak of E.coli, linked to two batches of Dunsyre Blue Cheese, manufactured by Lanarkshire-based Errington Cheese. Fourteen people across Scotland and two people in England contracted the E.coli bacteria, prompting the manufacturer to voluntarily recall cheese with the batch code C22 and D14.
Five UK supermarkets have been warned to take thousands of pots of yoghurt off their shelves amid concerns they may contain pieces of rubber.
The yoghurt, supplied by Yeo Valley but mostly sold under own-brand labels, pose a "possible risk" to health, the Food Standards Agency said.
The products in question are sold at Asda, Co-operative, Sainsbury's, Tesco and Waitrose. The FSA says customers who have bought the products should not eat them. The supermarkets are asking customers to return the products for a full refund, or contact customer services.
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Iowa health officials are investigating about 25 illnesses potentially linked to deli-made potato salads sold by Big G Foods in Marengo, IA. Test results from the State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa were presumed positive for Salmonella.
“We have approximately 25 cases under investigation. It is possible the investigation may determine some of the 25 cases are unrelated, and it is also possible more cases may be reported to us in the coming days,” said Polly Carver-Kimm, communications director for the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH).
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IKEA is recalling six chocolate products because the presence of hazelnut and/or almond is not mentioned correctly in the ingredients list. This means the products are a possible risk for anyone with an allergy to hazelnut and/or almond. The products recalled are in addition to two chocolate products recalled on 27 June.
The recall list is available here
British beef and lamb could be back on American dinner plates by the start of next year after the US Department of Agriculture published proposals to relax import restrictions.The USDA has launched a 60-day consultation to relax restrictions on British red meat, some 20 years after it was banned in the wake of the CJD crisis.
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Unilever has teamed up with environmental charity the Hubbub Foundation, as well as food waste specialist Wrap, to help reduce the amount of food waste in the UK at consumer, business and policy level.
Their Joint Ambition for a Zero Food Waste Britain has been developed following extensive consultation with 240 organisations and builds on public polling conducted with over 2,000 households.
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Morrisons has become the latest retailer to commit to phasing out the sale of eggs from caged hens in its stores by 2025 after pressure from a Sheffield schoolgirl. The move follows similar commitments by Aldi and Tesco in recent weeks, while Iceland announced yesterday (25 July) it would also end the sale of eggs from enriched cages.
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Tesco is to stop selling eggs from caged hens by 2025 after a teenager’s petition attracted more than 280,000 signatures. The supermarket will follow Sainsbury’s, Marks and Spencer and Aldi in committing to stop selling caged hens’ eggs. The date allows Tesco time to phase out the eggs, of which it sells around 600m a year. The grocer said it would move to 100% cage-free eggs in favour of alternatives sourced from suppliers who use barns, free range and organic methods.
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Public health authorities have told a small number of wholesalers to stop using imported rocket leaves in their salad mixes, as investigations into a major E.coli outbreak continue.
The outbreak had so far claimed two lives, PHE said today, with a total of 151 cases identified, 62 of which required hospital care.As previously reported, the cases appeared to be linked to mixed salad leaves but the source had not yet been established definitively, PHE said.
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Britain is lagging behind other EU member states in the detection of food crime and fraud and is risking another horsemeat-type scandal, the country’s foremost expert on food fraud has warned.
It has been three-and-a-half years since the “horsegate” scandal made headlines across Europe when tonnes of horsemeat found its way into products sold to consumers as beef.
Although lessons had been learned from the scandal, the risk of food fraud affecting the UK remains as high as ever, said Chris Elliott, professor of food safety at Queens University Belfast. Speaking to a Lords EU committee on food fraud on Wednesday (6 July), Prof Elliott, who led the government’s inquiry into the horsemeat scandal, said he was “shocked” by the decline in public food analysis laboratories in the UK.
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