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Food Safe Guru – More cantaloupe scary stories
One of my summer pleasures is going to Haymarket on a weekend in Boston, MA. It is a mixture of nationalities combined with fruits and vegetables. In the middle is a pizza store and Quincy Market is a stones throw away. If you don’t go with a cart on wheels, the purchases can get quite heavy. […]
Burch Farms lacked audits, traceability on recalled fruit
August 16, 2012 by foodsafeguru
In an article in The Grower, contamination has been confirmed at the Burch Farms melon packing facility in Faison, N.C., according to the Food and Drug Administration. In an update posted on its website late Aug. 13, FDA officials said the listeria finding spurred Burch to expand its recall to include all cantaloupe and honeydew […]
Food Safe Guru – Speaker at BU
July 20, 2012 by foodsafeguru
Today I am speaking at Boston University’s Journalism School. The summer students have an Investigative Journalism course and their segment is all about food safety. Food safety is all about investigative journalism. For example, HUS was diagnosed at a local suburban hospital. US Food Safety is trying to locate the source. It is painstaking research […]
Del Monte drops Oregon cantaloupe suit
March 16, 2012 by foodsafeguru
by Doug Ohlemeier Fresh Del Monte is ending its lawsuit against Oregon health officials who linked a salmonella outbreak to its Guatemalan cantaloupe. In August, Coral Gables, Fla.-based Del Monte Fresh Produce NA Inc. said it would sue the Oregon Health Authority’s Public Health Division and the agency’s top scientist over how it handled the […]
The inactivation of Salmonella on cantaloupes using hot water
January 26, 2012 by foodsafeguru
The use of hot water as a method to decontaminate cantaloupe is more effective than various other washing and physical treatments tested to date. The work presented in a USDA article demonstrates the utility of surface pasteurization to greatly reduce levels of Salmonella from the surfaces of cantaloupes. In addition, heat penetration analysis coupled with […]
August 21, 2012 by foodsafeguru
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