JBS Recalls More than 12 Million Pounds of Raw Beef, May Be Contaminated with Salmonella

By Food Safety Tech Staff

Following an expanded recall issued this week, JBS Tolleson, Inc. has now recalled about 12,093,271 pounds of non-intact raw beef products over concerns that they may be contaminated with Salmonella Newport. The initial recall of nearly 7 million raw beef products occurred just two months ago.

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Not-So-Fantastic Pests and
Where to Find Them

By Chelle Hartzer, Orkin

Prevention is the key to protecting your
bottom line.

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Eurofins Expands Pacific Northwest Services with Acquisition of Cascade Analytical

By Food Safety Tech Staff

With an upgraded laboratory presence, customers can take advantage of new services and rapid turnaround time.

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During this new stage of the investigation, it is vital that consumers and retailers have an easy way to identify romaine lettuce by both harvest date and harvest location. Labeling with this information on each bag of romaine or signage in stores where labels are not an option would easily differentiate for consumers romaine from unaffected growing regions.

– FDA

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Food Fraud Quick Bites:
Recent Notable Incidents

By Karen Everstine, Ph.D., Decernis

The latest food fraud incidents highlight the range of food products prone to fraud: Wine, liquor, extra virgin olive oil, produce, milk, eggs, meat and octopus.

Allergen Alley

Five Steps to Creating a Successful Validation Study

By Gabriela Lopez-Velasco, Ph.D.,
3M Food Safety

A potential problem arises when products containing allergenic foods are manufactured on the same equipment as other products, and those allergenic foods are not meant to be declared in the product label. As a result, residues of the first product manufactured may move to the next product. Known as direct cross-contact contamination, this issue can have a severe adverse impact on allergic consumers.

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