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... meat from the offspring of a cloned cow, raised and slaughtered in the uk has been exported to belgium, the uk’s food standards agency has confirmed ... but belgian authorities say there is no food safety issue, so no rapid alert was required ... the fsa subsequently issued a rapid alert using the eu food safety system to notify belgian authorities on 9 august ... however belgium’s federal food safety agency, afsca, is now asking the european commission to wipe the uk notification from the system, as it says it should never have been posted – even just for information purposes ... yesterday the commission told all eu member states that food from descendents of clones are conventional foods, and therefore no special measures apply

... the food safety enhancement act of 2009 (hr 2749), which represents a sweeping reform of the federal food-safety system, was defeated 280-150 in the house of representatives, falling eight votes short of the two-thirds majority required for passage ... the bill would give fda the power to order food recalls, step up the frequency of plant inspections, require facilities to have a food safety plan in place and give fda more access to company records

... a leading us food lawyer claims that the second major us salmonella outbreak in less than 24 months involving peanut butter suggests an industry wide problem and shows the need for more intense regulation, as well as faster detection methods ... the king nut peanut butter is manufactured by the peanut corporation of america, and is only sold to non-retail food outlets ... the recall alone cost the food manufacturer a reported $66m, demonstrating the huge sums food companies incur when hygiene controls in the plant go awry, which does not include the additional impact on brand loyalty and customer trust ... fda criticised pritzker questions the stringency of current microbiological testing in food processing plants, particularly in relation to food with long shelf life such as peanut butter, arguing that the product should not be allowed to leave the plant unless its safety is confirmed ... the food safety lawyer claims that more resources must be devoted to federal food safety, both in terms of contamination prevention and in detection time: “the current system is undermined by too much fragmentation of responsibility and not enough coordination between federal, state and local agencies ... ” the us food and drug administration (fda) came in for heavy criticism during the summer of 2008 for falsely correlating a nationwide salmonella outbreak with us grown tomatoes ... the oregon state university group said their method, the details of which were published in the journal, microbial biotechnology , is more directly related to toxicity assessment than the conventional techniques to test food for bacterial contamination and safety ... “we discovered that the pigment bearing cells, erythrophores, respond immediately to certain food associated, toxin producing bacteria responsible for making humans sick,” she continued ... ” she added that the method can detect food-associated bacteria such as salmonella and clostridium perfringens

... us senate agriculture committee chairman tom harkin said on friday that a series of massive food recalls in the us this summer underscored the need to reform a "broken" federal food safety system ... "these repeated meat recalls are clear evidence that our food safety system is broken," the iowa democrat said in a statement ... harkin has sought giving the us department of agriculture broader authority to enforce food safety regulations ... this includes the power to slap companies that make unsafe food with civil fines, and the authority to recall food suspected of contamination ... currently, the usda can only urge a company to do so or threaten to pull federal meat inspectors out of a plant that refuses to cooperate ... it has instead toughened its enforcement of food safety regulations at meat plants

... the european union said on tuesday it was investigating a growing food scare in several member nations surrounding the discovery of synthetic hormones in soft drinks and pork products ... eu spokeswoman beate gminder said experts would meet to discuss the latest announcement by the belgian federal food safety agency, favv, that traces of mpa were found in samples of glucose syrup sent to soft drink makers in belgium ... "the mpa hormone was discovered in food and feed," gminder said

... the centers for disease control and prevention estimate that salmonella in food is responsible for 1 ... "the large number of plants producing relatively clean turkeys shows that farming and slaughter practices can produce turkeys with little or no salmonella "said caroline smith dewaal, food-safety director for the center for science in the public interest ... at the same conference representative rosa delauro (d-ct) called the numerous federal agencies involved in ensuring food safety ineffective and inefficient at controlling hazards like salmonella ... representative rosa delauro (d-ct) called the numerous federal agencies involved in ensuring food safety ineffective and inefficient at controlling hazards like salmonella ... "it is imperative that we ensure that the federal government enforces the highest food- safety standards to protect the health of all american families," said delauro, author of the safe food act (hr 1671) ... a single food agency would optimise federal food safety-resources, centralise the fragmented food-safety system, and minimise the duplicative efforts

... a us senator introduced a bill last week to consolidate into one single independent agency the responsibilities regarding food safety, labelling and inspection currently divided among several us federal agencies ... illinois senator richard durbin launched the bill, that may be cited as the `safe food act of 2001', to 107th congress ... the purpose of the bill is firstly to establish a single agency, to be known as the `food safety administration', to be responsible for the regulation of food safety and labelling and for conducting food safety inspections to ensure with reasonable certainty, by preventing food-borne illnesses due to microbial, natural, or chemical hazards in food, that no harm will result from the consumption of food ... secondly to transfer to that agency the food safety, labelling, and inspection functions currently performed by other federal agencies, to achieve more efficient management and effective application of federal food safety laws for the protection and improvement of public health ... the bill further proposes that the administration be headed by the administrator of food safety, who would be appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the senate ... the new agency would consolidate the following us federal agencies: food safety and inspection service of the department of agriculture; the center for food safety and applied nutrition of the food and drug administration; the center for veterinary medicine of the food and drug administration; part of the national marine fisheries service of the national oceanic and atmospheric administration of the department of commerce that administers the seafood inspection program

... the us food and drug administration (fda) announced this week that it is to support 13 new programs that address the risks of foodborne disease in settings as varied as elementary schools, shellfish inspections to river boating and hiking the countryside ... the programs, sponsored by state and local regulatory agencies, were awarded fda grants totalling $500,000 during september's food safety education month ... the fda grants are part of the federal food safety program designed to complement, develop, or improve state and local food safety programs