One of the more intriguing movies I have ever watched was Fast Food Nation. It wasn’t the illegal workers that were handling the food or the guts room that bothered me. It was the inspection was so lame. When the executive of the hamburger chain was given a tour of the plant to help identify… [Read more…]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is failing to meet its goals for auditing food safety inspections that states do on its behalf, FDA data show, as reported by USA Today. FDA fell short of its goal in at least 17 of 39 states it paid to do inspections in the 2007-08 contract year. That’s 43%.… [Read more…]
It’s our purpose to provide consumers with food safety information, food recalls and food safety news in an easy to follow format. Here’s what we discovered over the past 6 months. 1. No food recall is just a food recall. Every one is different. 2. Food recalls can be expanded and expanded and expanded again.… [Read more…]
The Vidalia Onion Committee, http://www.vidaliaonion.org/RecipeContest/ is sponsoring a contest for the best recipes using Vidalia Onions. Top prize: $1,000. I like Vidalia Onions and the people at the Vidalia Onion Committee were very friendly. Contest ends August 14, 2009. So let’s be creative today! Tell the Vidalia Onion Committee that you heard about the contest… [Read more…]
If you thought that H1N1 (aka Swine Flu) was the only problem associated with Mexico in the past 2 weeks think again. California issued a recall of Hola Pop! La Original Lollipop Candy imported from Mexico. Read the article at http://www.usfoodsafety.com. Also two Salmonella food recalls recalls this week unrelated to Peanut Corporation of America or… [Read more…]
May 7, 2009 by foodsafeguru
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