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New USDA rules can prevent tens of thousands of food-poisoning cases

The USDA believes it has the answer to preventing tens of thousands of cases of food poisoning each year.

Photo by salmonella – UK

Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced new and stricter testing standards for use by chicken and turkey farmers to reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter in their flocks.
The Food Safety Inspection Service says [...]

An almost invisible path of food poisoning.

It’s happening again. A single salmonella-contaminated food item is forcing recalls of scores of other products throughout the country.
We went though this last year with contaminated peanuts from the Georgia and Texas plants of Peanut Corporation of America.
PCA recalled the tainted goobers, but the ripple effect spread for weeks as hundreds of manufacturers pulled thousands [...]

Now it’s red pepper you need to watch out for.

Remember last year’s epic recall of salmonella-tainted peanuts? The number of food manufacturers added to the recall list grew to more than a thousand over the following weeks because, it turned out, they were all buying goobers from Peanut Corporation of America.
Well, it may be happening again, but this [...]