Tag: food safety

During the February 25 meeting, IFPA was represented by Chief Food Safety & Regulatory Officer Dr. Jennifer McEntire on a panel discussion of the provisions, while Director of Food Safety & Quality Gretchen Wall offered additional testimony.

What’s the difference between hazard and risk? In ordinary language, the distinction is rather spongy. It’s quite otherwise in a food safety context.

At a time when retailers’ call for a safer and more consistent source of leafy greens, Revol Greens brings on a new Vice President of Food Safety to navigate distribution, particularly in a food supply chain fraught with continued challenges.

Concord Farms of Vernon, CA is recalling its 5.25oz (150g) enoki mushrooms, Lot #045633 grown in Korea, because it has the potential to be contaminated with listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium which can cause life-threatening illness.

Golden Medal Mushroom Inc. of Los Angeles, CA is recalling all cases of its 200g/7.05-ounce packages of Enoki Mushrooms, lot #300511, product of China, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

A fifth lawsuit has been filed on behalf of Florida resident, Sherie Jenkins, against ProSource Produce, LLC.

The FDA, along with CDC, and state and local partners, investigated a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Oranienburg infections linked to whole, fresh onions imported from the State of Chihuahua, Mexico, in cooperation with the Mexican competent authorities.

According to the CDC, as of February 1, 2022, 17 people infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported from 13 states. Illnesses started on dates ranging from August 16, 2014 to December 30, 2021 (one case occurred in 2014 and the remaining cases occurred between 2018 and 2021).

At its recent meeting, the Alliance for Food and Farming (AFF) appointed Kyla Oberman, Director of Marketing for California Giant Berry Farms , to serve as its new Secretary/Treasurer and Lauren M. Scott, Chief Strategy Officer for the International Fresh Produce Association {, and Jim Morris, Marketing Communications Manager for the Pear Bureau Northwest, to the Management Board.

More than 99% of the fruits and vegetables and fruit juices tested for residues were well below rigorous safety standards established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), if residues were present at all.