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Public Health and Safety RSS FeedsInjury Center Contributes to State-By-State Injury Prevention Policy Report - Injury Center Contributes to State-By-State Injury Prevention Policy Report...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Leading Leprologist Delivers Hanks Lecture - Leading Leprologist delivers Hanks lecture... Reported Increase in Older Adult Fall Deaths Due to Improved Coding - Reported Increase in Older Adult Fall Deaths Due to Improved Coding... Gaps in Sexual Health Care for Male Teens - Gaps in Sexual Health Care for Male Teens... Pneumonia and Preterm Birth Complications Are the Leading Causes of Childhood Death - Pneumonia and Preterm Birth Complications Are the Leading Causes of Childhood Death... Bloomberg School Receives Grand Challenges Grant - Bloomberg School Receives Grand Challenges Grant... Teaching Excellence - Teaching Excellence Q3 2011-2012... A Better Method for Diagnosing Kidney Disease - A Better Method for Diagnosing Kidney Disease... Actor Sam Waterston Receives Goodermote Humanitarian Award - Actor Sam Waterston Receives Goodermote Humanitarian Award... Alcohol Regulation on the Internet Failing to Protect Youth - Alcohol Regulation on the Internet Failing to Protect Youth... Johns Hopkins Establishes New Center for AIDS Research - Johns Hopkins Establishes New Center for AIDS Research... 15 Million Babies Born Too Soon - 15 Million Babies Born Too Soon, Over 1 Million Die Each Year... Majority of States Fail to Address Youth Exposure to Alcohol Marketing - Majority of States Fail to Address Youth Exposure to Alcohol Marketing... Public Health: On the Inside - Inside look at the world and careers of public health... 1 in 3 Households Misreports Smoke Alarm Coverage - One in Three Households Misreports Smoke Alarm Coverage... Discovery of Mad Cow in Calif. Was Stroke of Luck - (ABCNews.com) - A non-descript building in the heart of California's dairy country has become the focus of intense scrutiny now that mad cow disease has been discovered in a dead dairy cow.
The finding, announced Tuesday, is the first new case of the disease in the U.S. since 2006 — and the fact that the discovery was made at all was a stroke of luck. Tests are performed on only a small portion of dead animals brought to the transfer facility near Hanford.
The... Statement by USDA Chief Veterinary Officer John Clifford Regarding a Detection of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in the United States - (United States Department of Agriculture) - WASHINGTON, April 24, 2012 – USDA Chief Veterinary Officer John Clifford today released the following statement on the detection of BSE in the United States:
"As part of our targeted surveillance system, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the nation's fourth case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a dairy cow from central California. The carcass of the animal is ... Mad Cow Disease Case Confirmed By USDA - (ABCNews.com) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture today confirmed a case of mad cow disease found in a dairy cow in central California.
In a press briefing Tuesday afternoon, John Clifford, the USDA’s chief veterinary officer, said the cow’s meat did not enter the food supply and the carcass will be destroyed. The animal was found at a rendering facility.
“There is really no concern for alarm here with regards to this animal,” Clifford said. “Both human healt... USDA Announces Steps to Improve Compliance with Residue Requirements and to Increase Testing at Establishments with Repeat Violators - (USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service) - WASHINGTON, April 23, 2012 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) today announced two steps designed to prevent meat products that contain illegal residues from reaching consumers: the issuance of a compliance guide that will help livestock slaughter establishments avoid purchasing animals with illegal drug or other chemical residues; and increased testing of animals from producers with a history o... XROCK INDUSTRIES, LLC Issues a Voluntary Nationwide Recall of X-ROCK, a Product Marketed as a Dietary Supplement To Support Male Sexual Performance, Due to Unlisted, Potentially Hazardous Ingredient - (US Food & Drug Administration) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Fort Lauderdale, FL – April 19, 2012 --- XROCK INDUSTRIES, an independent distributor of the X-ROCK products, is conducting a user level voluntary recall of certain supplement products sold by XROCK INDUSTRIES under the brand name of X-ROCK.
Finished product of X-ROCK for Men was tested and preliminarily found to contain an analogue of an ingredient in an FDA-approved drug. Analytical tests conducted by the Food and Drug... Michigan Firm Recalls Calzone Products for Possible Listeria Contamination - (USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service) - WASHINGTON, April 20, 2012 - Albie's Foods, a Gaylord, Mich. establishment, is recalling approximately 311 pounds of pizza calzone products due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The fully cooked, ready-to-eat, calzone products were produced on April 10, 2012, and then shipped to institutions in Indiana and Michigan. The following... Colorado Firm Recalls Sausage Products Due To Misbranding and Undeclared Allergen - (USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service) - WASHINGTON, April 20, 2012 - Old Style Sausage, a Denver, Colo. establishment, is recalling approximately 3,000 pounds of sausage products because of misbranding and an undeclared allergen. The sausage products contain egg, a known allergen not declared on the package label.
The products do not have a packaging date or code but may bear a label with the establishment number "EST. 8126" inside the USDA mark of inspection. The sausages, produced ... Salmonella Again Tops Reportable Food Registry Hazards - (FoodSafetyNews.com) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday released its second annual review of the Reportable Food Registry, the program that requires domestic and foreign food makers to report potentially hazardous foods that have entered U.S. commerce. The program's second year of operation, from Sept. 8, 2010 to Sept. 7 2011, included 882 reports of hazardous human and animal foods, including 225 "primary reports" on particular food items. That compar... Italy's Experience Liberalizing Raw Milk Sales: Can't Put the Genie Back in the Bottle - (FoodSafetyNews.com) - On Jan. 25, 2007, Italy formally authorized the sale of raw milk to consumers through automatic vending devices. The decision had its legal basis in the generous interpretation of a 2004 provision in European Union hygiene law, and followed intense lobbying from farmers and local authorities.
The decision helped boost a booming market, a growth which continues today. Unaffected by safety issues, as of 2012, more than 1,400 distribution vending ... Felony Indictment Charges Four in Tainted Cheese Conspiracy - (FoodSafetyNews.com) - A federal grand jury in Chicago has returned a six-count indictment against four individuals, alleging they were involved in a 2007 scheme to ship more than 110,000 pounds of contaminated Mexican-style cheese.
The indictment does not claim that the cheese caused human illnesses or other public health consequences, according to Patrick J. Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. But lab analysis of the cheese showed it wa... 30 Lawmakers Ask USDA to 'Correct the Public Record' on LFTB - (FoodSafetyNews.com) - Thirty lawmakers wrote to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Thursday asking what the U.S. Department of Agriculture has done and can do in the future to help stop "the campaign of the misinformation" about Lean Finely Textured Beef, now widely known to American consumers as "pink slime."
Calling the media coverage and subsequent consumer revolt against LFTB "a campaign of misinformation," members of Congress, many of them from beef states, as... Hong Lee Trading Inc. Issues An Alert On Undeclared Sulfites In Peacock Brand Preserved Apricots - (US Food & Drug Adminsitration) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 16, 2012 - Hong Lee Trading Inc., 225 Johnson Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11203 is recalling Peacock Brand Preserved Apricots because it may contain undeclared sulfites. People who have a severe sensitivity to sulfites run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic reactions if they consume this product.
The recalled Peacock Brand Preserved Apricots come in an un-coded, 300 gram (10.6 oz.), clear, plastic container an... M.E. Thompson, Inc. Expands Recall of Sub Sandwiches Because of Possible Health Risk - (US Food & Drug Administration) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 17, 2012 - M.E. Thompson, Inc. is expanding the recall of its Anytime Deli Turkey & Ham Footlong, to include Italian Footlong, and Classic Cuban, because the products have 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. Healthy individuals may suffer on... South Carolina Firm Recalls Frozen Entrées Due to Mislabeling and an Undeclared Allergen - (USDA Food Safety & Inspection Service) - WASHINGTON, April 17, 2012 - Nestlé Prepared Foods Company, a Gaffney, S.C. establishment, is recalling approximately 16,890 pounds of Stouffer's lasagna frozen entrées that may instead contain stuffed peppers, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The stuffed peppers contain Worcestershire sauce made with anchovies, a known allergen that is not declared on the lasagna labels.
The follow... Product Recall Information of Baby Bird & Baby Macaw Feeding Formula - (US Food & Drug Administration) - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - April 9, 2012 - Kaytee, a Central Garden & Pet brand, is recalling two products, Kaytee exact® Hand Feeding Formula Baby Birds and Kaytee exact® Hand Feeding Formula Baby Macaw, due to high levels of vitamin D. These products are used primarily by bird breeders for feeding baby birds. Baby birds being fed the formula may run the risk of kidney failure when ingesting the product.
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