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... the usda’s food safety and inspection service (fsis) has said it will expand its salmonella initiative program (sip) to support industry in reducing pathogens in raw meat and poultry ... those establishments then regularly collect product samples to test for common foodborne pathogens and share this data with the fsis ... this program will encourage innovation by the industry to make food safer while providing us with data and information we can use to protect public health

... 80 per cent of consumers are unable to identify the types and proportions of foods needed for a healthy balanced diet, according to a new survey, food and you conducted by the uk food standards agency (fsa) ... based on more than 3,000 face-to-face interviews with randomly-selected adults across the uk between march and august 2010, the survey also revealed that less than one-in-10 (9 per cent) correctly identified the maximum adult daily intake of salt was 6g ... saturated fat more positively, the survey found that most respondents rated a variety of factors as important for a healthy lifestyle: 99% said eating fruit and vegetables was very or fairly important ... 94% said that eating less salt was important and 92% said that limiting foods high in saturated fat was important ... andrew wadge, fsa chief scientist, said: “food and you was designed to help us understand what influences people’s behaviour in relation to food and to chart whether people follow government advice ... ” the next food and you survey will take place in 2012 ... meanwhile, the survey also revealed that most respondents claimed to follow recommended practices in relation to cleaning, cross-contamination, chilling and cooking food ... raw meat but despite fsa advice not to wash raw meat and poultry, 41% said that they always washed raw meat and poultry while 42% wash raw fish and seafood ... only 46% of people were able to correctly identify the temperature of a fridge as ranging between 0 and 5°c ... the survey was carried out by research agency tns-bmrb, the policy studies institute (psi) and the university of westminster carried out the first wave of food and you on behalf of the agency ... respondents’ judgments about the types and proportions of foods needed for a healthy balanced diet were based on the fsa’s eatwell plate - a pictorial representation of a healthy balanced diet ... it was commissioned in 2009, before the responsibility for nutrition policy moved from the fsa to the department of health in england and to the assembly government in wales

... the agency has published the first wave of an extensive new survey called food and you, which reveals information about people’s behaviour and attitudes towards food issues such as food safety and healthy eating, and their knowledge of these issues ... ‘subsequent waves will enable us to assess food behaviour changes over time’ this wide-ranging survey involved more than 3,000 face-to-face interviews with randomly selected adults across the uk between march and august 2010 ... food safety the key findings on food safety are: the majority of respondents reported that they follow recommended practices in relation to cleaning, cross-contamination, chilling and cooking ... the fsa advises that people shouldn’t wash raw meat and poultry ... however many respondents said that they did – 41% said that they always wash raw meat and poultry, and 42% wash raw fish and seafood ... there is a lack of knowledge around safe food storage – just under half (46%) correctly stated that the temperature of a fridge should be between 0 and 5°c ... there is some uncertainty around the best way to tell whether food was safe to eat, with respondents commonly saying they used the smell (72%) and look (56%) of food to decide if it was safe ... healthy eating in the area of healthy eating, the survey found that the majority of respondents rated a variety of factors as important for a healthy lifestyle: 99% said eating fruit and vegetables was very or fairly important, 94% said that eating less salt was important and 92% said that limiting foods high in saturated fat was important

... 2 percent in second-quarter 2008, according to the fsis’s 2009 third-quarter progress report on salmonella testing of selected raw meat and poultry products

... the us department of agriculture's food safety and inspection service (fsis) has said that it will solicit further public comments on the proposed rule, 'nutrition labeling of single-ingredient products and ground or chopped meat and poultry products' ... the rule is designed to help families make informed decisions when purchasing and consuming meat and poultry products by requiring nutrition labeling of single-ingredient, raw meat and poultry products ... this supplement to the proposed rule responds to all comments received on the january 18, 2001, proposed rule and requests additional comments on policies for which there were significant differences of opinion ... on january 18, 2001, fsis published a proposed rule in the federal register entitled, 'nutrition labeling of ground or chopped meat and poultry products and single-ingredient products' (66 fr 4969)

... the food safety and inspection service (fsis) issued a supplemental proposed rule that, if finalized, will amend the federal meat and poultry products inspection regulations to require nutrition labeling of the major cuts of single-ingredient, raw meat and poultry products, unless an exemption applies

... the food standards agency (fsa) and the health protection agency (hpa) confirmed a total of 443 cases of salmonella enteritidis phage type (pt) 14b have been reported since the start of the year, compared to 137 occurrences in the whole of 2008 ... all the clusters have been associated with a number of catering establishments and one care home ... “investigations are ongoing into a possible link to eggs sourced from an approved establishment in spain , and the uk and spanish authorities are working in close cooperation to investigate this”, said a fsa statement ... two subsequent samplings of eggs supplied by this producer from a uk distributor found infected eggs in two out of 80 and 1 out of 20 tests respectively ... eu regulations since january 2009, all eu states have been obliged to introduce a salmonella national control programme and carry out testing for salmonella in laying flocks ... the aim of the initiative is to reduce the incidence of salmonella in laying flocks and the egg market but regulators recognise it cannot stamp out infections completely ... typhimurium - cannot be sold directly to consumers and are instead sent for pasteurisation ... salmonella is one of the most common causes of food poisoning in the uk and is sometimes found in unpasteurised milk, raw meat and poultry, as well as eggs and products containing raw egg ... the majority of eggs on sale in shops in the uk are of uk origin, and recent surveys have shown there is a very low incidence of salmonella in uk eggs ... the fsa cautioned that it was impossible to guarantee that any egg will be free of salmonella and stressed the importance of safe storage, preparation and cooking of the products

... usda’s food safety and inspection service issued a notice advising inspection program personnel that, under some circumstances, raw meat and poultry products are not subject to salmonella testing as previously outlined in federal register notice, 73 fr 4767 ... according to the agency’s most recent notice, establishments that process “all its products into ready-to-eat (rte) product or moves all its raw products for further processing into rte product at another federally inspected establishment” are excluded from the salmonella verification testing program schedule

... the news comes but a few days after us agriculture secretary reports on a dramatic fall in the rate of salmonella in raw meat and poultry ... the food and drug administration (fda) this week repeated its earlier advice about eating raw sprouts following cases of salmonella in oregon ... people at high risk of developing foodborne illness, including children, the elderly, and those with weakened immune systems, should not consume the product, the government body warned ... while the rate of salmonella in the us in raw meat and poultry dropped by 66 per cent over the past six years and by 16 per cent compared with 2002, the sprout announcement shows that governments must stay on guard ... in europe a pressing issue today is imminent european enlargement and the impact this will have on food safety ... an article this week in the commission's paper consumer voice highlights the fact that new member states will be part of the eu's external frontier, and will have an important role in ensuring that imported animals, plants and food products meet eu requirements ... "the internal market for live animals and animal products is based on the elimination of veterinary checks at internal borders and the completion of all checks for live animals and animal products coming from third countries in specific locations situated at the external borders - border inspection posts," said the report ... "it is essential to guarantee the protection of both public health and animal health in the european union ... in view of this, all new border inspection posts must fully conform to eu requirements both in terms of facilities and import rules," added the report ... we found all 10 would be ready to assume the obligations of eu membership and commended the special efforts they had made over the past year to prepare themselves," he wrote

... the institute of food technologists reports that the food safety and inspection service (fsis) is suspending until january 9, 2003, regulations that limit water retained by raw meat and poultry products from post-evisceration processing to the amount that is unavoidable in meeting applicable food safety requirements and that require labeling for the amount of water retained ... the fsis took this action in response to a petition from four trade associations representing the meat and poultry industries ... the original request was that the effective date be extended until august, 2004, but the fsis has decided that a one-year suspension of the regulation will allow the meat and poultry industry sufficient time to complete the necessary requirements ... these include experimentation, including microbial testing and chilling system trials under fsis-accepted data collection protocols; fine-tuning and stabilising newly adjusted processes; and conducting regular measurements of retained water at packaging ... suspension of the regulation also will provide members of the meat and poultry industry sufficient time to order new supplies of labels with statements reflecting the amount of retained water in their raw products ... the final rule promulgating the retained water regulations also made numerous technical amendments in the sections of the poultry products inspection regulations that concern poultry chilling practices