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	<title>Tony Connor &#187; Food Safety Improvement</title>
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		<title>FSA &#8216;Meat Plant Cause for Concern&#8217; list published</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:48:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting today, the FSA is routinely publishing the full list of those meat plants that, on the basis of their audit reports, are considered &#8217;cause for concern&#8217;. This follows agreement by the FSA Board last year to publish this information as part of the FSA’s ongoing commitment to openness and transparency. Last week, the FSA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FDA Testing Orange Juice Imports for Carbendazim</title>
		<link>http://tonyconnor.com/3327/fda-testing-orange-juice-imports-for-carbendazim/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 07:51:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) has issued a letter to alert the orange juice processing industry to the Agency’s position with respect to recent reports of the finding of the fungicide carbendazim in orange juice. Fungicides are chemical compounds or biological organisms used to kill or inhibit fungi or fungal spores [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Meat plants audit reports published</title>
		<link>http://tonyconnor.com/3325/uk-meat-plants-audit-reports-published/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 07:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Legislation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Food Standards Agency has today started the regular publication of audit reports of approved meat plants in England, Scotland and Wales. This marks the beginning of routine publication of these reports, in line with the FSA&#8217;s commitment to transparency. More than 200 audit reports are being published today. These cover all audits that have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FSMA Claim &#8216;Significant Progress&#8217; in One-Year Report</title>
		<link>http://tonyconnor.com/3303/fsma-claim-significant-progress-in-one-year-progress-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 07:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Legislation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since President Obama signed the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) on January 4, 2011, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has made significant progress in developing proposed rules to implement the sweeping food safety reform law, publishing mandated reports, and taking important steps toward increasing overall food safety capacity in the United States. Below are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg identifying problems with third-party food safety audits and asking FDA to take action to address these problems</title>
		<link>http://tonyconnor.com/3317/letter-to-fda-commissioner-margaret-hamburg-identifying-problems-with-third-party-food-safety-audits-and-asking-fda-to-take-action-to-address-these-problems/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:28:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[3rd Party Audit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today Democratic Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg identifying problems with third-party food safety audits and asking FDA to take action to address these problems. The letter’s findings are based on the Committee’s bipartisan investigation of the Listeria monocytogenes outbreak in cantaloupe from Jensen Farms. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report on the Investigation of the Outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes in Cantaloupe at Jensen Farms</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 08:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Legislation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Overview The Energy and Commerce Committee has conducted a bipartisan investigation of the recent outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes in cantaloupes grown and processed at Jensen Farms, a family-owned operation in Granada, Colorado. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 146 people in 28 states have been infected, 30 people have died, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Report Details Findings of Listeria Outbreak Investigation</title>
		<link>http://tonyconnor.com/3312/new-report-details-findings-of-listeria-outbreak-investigation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Safety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Energy and Commerce Committee today released a new bipartisan staff report that details the findings from the committee’s investigation into the 2011 Listeria outbreak in cantaloupes grown and processed at Jensen Farms. The report is based on documents from and interviews with food safety officials at the Food and Drug Administration, Jensen Farms, Frontera [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Update on Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Whole Cantaloupes</title>
		<link>http://tonyconnor.com/3310/final-update-on-multistate-outbreak-of-listeriosis-linked-to-whole-cantaloupes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Safety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 8, 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a FINAL Update on the Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Whole Cantaloupes from Jensen Farms, Colorado. According to CDC, available evidence indicates that the outbreak is over. A total of 146 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auburn University vision of improving Food Safety and Detection</title>
		<link>http://tonyconnor.com/3287/auburn-university-vision-of-improving-food-safety-and-detection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 07:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Safety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food safety is a national priority that affects every man, woman and child. As many as 48 million Americans become ill annually due to foodborne pathogens and toxins. The Center for Disease Control&#8217;s estimates indicate that as many as 3,000 of these individuals will die, with an additional 128,000 being hospitalized as a result of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago sandwich manufacturer to stop production</title>
		<link>http://tonyconnor.com/3293/chicago-sandwich-manufacturer-to-stop-production/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 08:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FDA: Chicago-area sandwich manufacturer agrees to stop production Action prompted by conditions favorable to Listeria growth, history of violations The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced today that a Chicago-area company has agreed to stop making its ready-to-eat sandwiches and produce after FDA investigators repeatedly found unsanitary conditions and bacterial contamination in the facility. The [...]]]></description>
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