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Utopia Foods expands recall on Enoki mushrooms

- General News
Utopia Foods Inc of Glendale, NY, is expanding the recall of its 200g packages of “Enoki Mushrooms”, imported from China, with clear and blue plastic packages with clear markings of “Best before 03/02/2023” or “Best before 03.09.23” distributed between January 6th to January 13th, 2023.

Fullei Fresh recalls alfalfa sprouts due to possible health risk

- General News
Fullei Fresh is voluntarily recalling Alfalfa Sprouts due to the detection of Shiga toxin producing E.coli (STEC.)

FDA releases fact sheet for harvest and post-harvest agricultural water provisions

- General News
The intended enforcement discretion period for the harvest and post-harvest agricultural water provisions for covered produce (other than sprouts) in the Produce Safety Rule ends on January 26, 2023 for all businesses other than small and very small businesses.

Church Brothers make food safety promotions

- General News
Church Brothers has recently promoted key team members within the Food Safety team.

FDA releases 2022 Food Code

- General News
The Food Code provides guidance for state and local authorities and retailers to help mitigate foodborne illness risks at retail and provide a uniform set of national standards for retail food safety.

Wegmans recalls Organic Baby Kale & Baby Spinach and Organic Microgreens due to Salmonella risk

- General News
Wegmans is voluntarily recalling these products because some of the soil they were grown in, supplied to Wegmans Organic Farm by bio365 of Ithaca, New York, tested positive for Salmonella by the supplier.

Hazard- and risk-based assessments of chemical safety

- Analysis
In my previous article, I discussed the new textbook Present Knowledge in Food Safety. I didn’t get to the punchline. It is contained in the book’s subtitle: A Risk-Based Approach through the Food Chain.

A massive new study of food safety

- Analysis
The book contains such a vast amount of technical material that even a specialist would probably be able to critique only two or three chapters in detail.

SmartWash Solutions begins shipping new EPIC Panel Sterilight for food safety

- General News
SmartWash Solutions, an industry leader in food safety technology, has begun shipping EPIC Panel Sterilight, a new patent-pending product designed to safely and automatically kill Listeria and other pathogens inside control panels—an often-overlooked source of cross-contamination.

Questions about blockchain infallibility

- Analysis
Let me begin by asking a dumb question, of the sort that journalists should ask more than they do. Why did FTX, a leading cryptocurrency exchange, collapse in such a spectacular fashion?