| Food Recalls and Critical Issues |
Meat and Poultry Recalls - From the Food Safety and Inspection Service
Product Recalls - The National Food Safety Database
Product Recalls - U.S Food and Drug Administration
Recalls and Alerts - Environmental Sanitation & Food Safety, Alaska
Health Warnings - California Department of Health Services
Critical Issues - The National Food Safety Database
News Releases - - From the Food Safety and Inspection Service
Reporting Illnesses and Product Complaints - To how report illnesses to the CDC, USDA, and FDA
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| The"Bad Bug Book" |
This handbook provides basic facts regarding foodborne pathogenic microorganisms and natural toxins. It brings together in one place information from the Food & Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service, and the National Institutes of Health.
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| Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition |
The Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), regulates $240 billion worth of domestic food, $15 billion worth of imported foods, and $15 billion worth of cosmetics sold across state lines. This regulation takes place from the products' point of U.S. entry or processing to their point of sale.
CFSAN is one of six centers within FDA. With a work force of about 800, the center promotes and protects the public health and economic interest by ensuring that a)Food is safe, nutritious and wholesome, and cosmetics are safe, and b)Food and cosmetics are honestly, accurately and informatively labeled.
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| Fight BAC!™ |
Launched with a national send-off in October 1997, the Fight BAC!™ campaign is the product of a unique partnership of industry, government and consumer groups dedicated to reducing the incidence of foodborne illness. By combining resources, a focused and more unified program is now available to consumers, who share in the responsibility for safe food handling. BAC!, the focal point of the campaign, helps puts a "face" on invisible foodborne bacteria. The four safe food handling messages provide consumers with consistent, brief and positive actions they can take to reduce their risk of illness.
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| USDA/FDA Foodborne Illness
Educational Materials Database
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The USDA/FDA Foodborne Illness Education Information Center provides information about foodborne illness prevention to educators, trainers, and organizations developing education and training materials for food workers and consumers. The center is part of an interagency agreement between the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. It is housed at the Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) of the National Agricultural Library (NAL), USDA in Beltsville, Maryland. USDA and FDA established the center as part of a national campaign to reduce the risk of foodborne illness and to increase knowledge of food-related risks from production through consumption.
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| IFIC : Food Safety and Nutrition Information |
IFIC¹s purpose is to bridge the gap between science and communications by collecting and disseminating scientific information on food safety, nutrition and health and by working with an extensive roster of scientific experts to help translate research into understandable and useful information for opinion leaders and ultimately, consumers. These groups find the IFIC reservoir of science and health data a valuable and easily accessed resource.
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| USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service |
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is the public health agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture responsible for ensuring that the nation's commercial supply of meat, poultry, and egg products is safe, wholesome, and correctly labeled and packaged, as required by the Federal Meat Inspection Act, the Poultry Products Inspection Act, and the Egg Products Inspection Act.
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| Food Safety Project : Iowa State University |
Iowa State University Extension believes that resources are needed for consumers, educators and students to access research-based, unbiased information on food safety and quality. The goal of the Food Safety Project is to develop educational materials that give the public the tools they need to minimize their risk of foodborne illness.
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| University of Florida Online Food Safety Training Manual |
Provides the foodservice industry with resources for food handler training which enables management and staff the ability to offer consumers food that is prepared in a clean and safe environment.
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| Healthy School Meals Training Materials Database |
The Healthy School Meals Training Materials Database is a compilation of training materials for school food service and child nutrition personnel. Materials in the database have been reviewed for their content and subject matter. The inclusion of a resource in the database does not imply any endorsement of the item by the United States Department of Agriculture.
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| International HACCP Alliance |
The International HACCP Alliance was developed on March 25, 1994. It is housed within the Institute of Food Science and Engineering (IFSE). The International HACCP Alliance was developed to provide a uniform program to assure safer meat and poultry products.
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| National Food Safety Database Project |
The goal of the National Food Safety Database project is to develop an efficient management system of US food safety databases that are used by the Cooperative Extension Service (CES), consumers, industry, and other public health organizations. The end result of such a management program is a highly informative, efficient and accurate Web site which will provide one-stop shopping for food safety information.
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| NSF International |
NSF International, founded in 1944 as the National Sanitation Foundation, is known for the development of standards, product testing and certification services in the areas of public health safety and protection of the environment. The NSF Mark is placed on millions of consumer, commercial and industrial products annually and is trusted by users, regulators and manufacturers alike.
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| The Food Safety Home Page |
This site is a resource for anyone interested in the cause and prevention of foodborne illness. It provides basic information about the bacteria, parasites and viruses that can cause foodborne illness. It gives factual information on current food safety issues
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| FoodSafety.gov |
FoodSafety.gov is a gateway Web site that provides links to selected government food safety-related information. Not every government web site is listed. When more than one government web site provides similar information, links will be provided to only one or two of those sites. A steering committee consisting of individuals with different backgrounds reviews all potential sites for inclusion on the FoodSafety.gov web site.
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