NEW YORK — New York City plans to force restaurants to display signs with their cleanliness ratings publicly in windows or entranceways so they can be seen from the street.
It’s part of an effort by the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene to revamp restaurant inspection procedures. The city also plans to [...]
Lynda Kuhn, Senior Vice-President, Maple Leaf Foods, writes regarding, Listeria found in deli meat, Jan. 24, to say that Maple Leaf tests for the presence of all listeria bacteria, even though only one of the six types has any potential health impact. This is the most conservative approach to testing. A positive finding does not [...]
ATLANTA — As federal officials launch a criminal investigation into a Georgia peanut processor at the center of a deadly salmonella outbreak, food safety experts say they hope it’s a signal that the government plans to be more aggressive in prosecuting other cases in the future.
Food safety watchdogs and legal experts say criminal charges have [...]
The president of the peanut company linked to a nationwide salmonella outbreak serves on an industry advisory board that helps the U.S. Department of Agriculture set quality standards for peanuts.
Stewart Parnell, president of Peanut Corp. of America, based in Lynchburg, Va., was first appointed to the USDAs Peanut Standards Board in July 2005 and was [...]
A “handful” of United Nations staff are working around the clock to save a growing number of children caught in heavy crossfire between government forces and Tamil rebels in Sri Lanka’s volatile northeast, a U.N. spokesman said Saturday.
Armed men forced their way into a Caracas synagogue, defacing its administrative offices with anti-Semitic graffiti and vandalizing an interior room where the Torah is kept, officials said.
Zinc oxide quantum dots (ZnO QDs) are nanoparticles of purified powdered ZnO. These were evaluated for antimicrobial activity against Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella Enteritidis, and Escherichia coli O157:H7. The ZnO QDs were utilized as a powder, bound in a polystyrene film (ZnO-PS), or suspended in a polyvinylprolidone gel (ZnO-PVP). Bacteria cultures were inoculated into culture media [...]
The objective of this study was to evaluate the sensory stability of ultra-high temperature (UHT) milk subjected to different heat treatments and stored at room temperature in white high density polyethylene bottles (HDPE) pigmented with titanium dioxide. Two lots of 300 units each were processed, respectively, at 135 and 141 °C/10 s using indirect heating [...]
McPherson, Kan. — Steve Moris of the Kansas Department of Agriculture (KDA) met with a group of local representatives on Jan. 13 to discuss regulations for temporary food vendors and to make sure no changes had been made to the regulations when they were transferred to the KDA on Oct. 1, 2008.
Prior to Oct. 1, [...]
The bulk of scientific evidence concludes pasteurization is the most effective way to reduce the risks associated with drinking raw milk and is necessary to protect public health, prosecutors told a Newmarket court yesterday.
A “preponderance of scientific literature” confirms there are many ways raw milk can support pathogens, and that pasteurization is crucial to reduce [...]