Food Safety Policy

  • UK: Guidance on desinewed meat moratorium

    Posted: May 25th, 2012 - 12:05pm

    The Food Standards Agency has produced guidance to help meat processors comply with the moratorium on the production and use of 'desinewed meat' (DSM) from pig bones and poultry carcases. The moratorium comes into effect from Saturday 26 May 2012.Additional Information

    Date Published: 
    24.may.12
    Source Title: 
    Food Standards Agency
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  • QATAR: Plan to set up national food safety agency

    Posted: May 25th, 2012 - 12:04pm

    The Supreme Council of Health in collaboration with the Qatar National Food Safety Programme is planning to establish a national food safety agency. It is envisaged that the agency will solely be responsible for regulating food safety, including plants and animal safety, in the country.Additional Information

    Date Published: 
    24.may.12
    Source Title: 
    Gulf Times
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  • Provincial law in Canada to ban information on farm-based disease outbreaks

    Posted: May 24th, 2012 - 2:08pm

    When someone asks, What’s wrong with Kansas, I reply with, What’s wrong with Canada? My journalism friends have long complained that the flow of information about public health – public anything – is a tinkle in Canada compared to other places.Additional Information

    Date Published: 
    22.may.12
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
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  • ILLINOIS: 2 Investigators: Failed inspections for retailers selling ready-to-go food

    Posted: May 24th, 2012 - 2:06pm

    CHICAGO -- Department, big box and grocery stores are getting into the restaurant business with meals ready to go. But how safe is that food? CBS 2′s Dave Savini reports. Kantha Shelke, a food safety expert, traveled with CBS 2 to look at how safely ready-to-go food is being handled at stores.Additional Information

    Date Published: 
    21.may.12
    Source Title: 
    CBS Chicago
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  • LEBANESE expat brought in to help improve food safety

    Posted: May 24th, 2012 - 2:05pm

    BEIRUT -- A Lebanese expatriate who is an expert on food safety has been brought in from the U.S. to improve food handling processes as part of the response to the expired goods scandal that shook the food industry last month, revealing hundreds of tons of expired food.Additional Information

    Date Published: 
    22.may.12
    Source Title: 
    The Daily Star
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  • US: Application of FSIS sampling protocol for testing beef trim for E. coli O157:H7

    Posted: May 22nd, 2012 - 5:23pm

    Executive SummaryAdditional Information

    Date Published: 
    21.may.12
    Source Title: 
    USDA
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  • US: USDA streamlining meat and poultry labeling approval process

    Posted: May 22nd, 2012 - 4:57pm

    New, web-based Label Submission Approval System will offer an alternative means to paper application submission, making label review process faster, cheaper, and more accurateAdditional Information

    Date Published: 
    21.may.12
    Source Title: 
    USDA
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  • KUWAIT: Inspection campaigns for food safety intensified

    Posted: May 22nd, 2012 - 4:48pm

    KUWAIT -- The municipality has intensified its campaign of surprise inspection and search for expired food and products unfit for human consumption, the director general said yesterday. Ahmad Al-Sebeeh said in a statement that the efforts signal the start of the municipal authorities’ inspection program for the summer season which will cover all the state governorates.Additional Information

    Date Published: 
    20.may.12
    Source Title: 
    Kuwait Times
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  • TEXAS firm recalls beef samosa products due to lack of federal inspection

    Posted: May 21st, 2012 - 10:18am

    Editor's Note: (May 17, 2012): This Recall Notification Report was issued May 16, 2012. On May 17, 2012, FSIS determined a change in status from a Class III to a Class II recall was warranted because a meat ingredient did not receive federal inspection. Although no new products were included, FSIS issued a news release on May 17, 2012, to reflect this change.Additional Information

    Date Published: 
    18.may.12
    Source Title: 
    FSIS
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  • US: Cantaloupes take next safety step

    Posted: May 21st, 2012 - 10:12am

    Cantaloupe growers took an important next step in mid-May, establishing California’s first mandatory food safety program overseen by a commodity board, the California Cantaloupe Advisory Board.Additional Information

    Date Published: 
    18.may.12
    Source Title: 
    The Packer
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