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walmart requires enhanced beef safety measures
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wal-mart announced today that it will implement additional beef safety measures designed to further protect customers against foodborne illnesses. the new process controls standards and goals are additions to a food safety program that already requires ground beef suppliers to test for e.coli o157:h7 and achieve prevention-based certification against one of the global food safety initiative (gfsi) internationally recognized standards.”at walmart and sam’s club, our commitment to providing our customers with safe, quality foods is unparalleled,” said vice president for food safety frank yiannas. “as part of our continuous improvement efforts, we go further than many u.s. retailers in requiring leading-edge food safety standards throughout the entire food production chain.” “in light of recent beef recalls, we determined it was prudent to require an additional layer of protection for our customers,” he said. the new program requires walmart and sam’s club beef suppliers to implement controls that would significantly reduce potential contamination levels and validate that the measures they’ve implemented are effective through specialized testing. suppliers who do not operate slaughter houses must be in compliance with the new standard by june 2011. for beef slaughterhouse suppliers, there is a two-step approach with the first step to be completed by june 2011 and the second by june 2012. walmart and sam’s club will work closely with beef suppliers to ensure that the new requirement is implemented without additional cost to customers. the protocol has been reviewed with numerous stakeholders including consumer groups, regulators, academicians, beef suppliers, and industry associations. dr. james marsden of kansas state university stated, “walmart has taken steps to provide its customers with the safest possible beef products. consumers across the united states will benefit greatly from this timely food safety initiative.” according to jim dickson, iowa state university professor of animal science, “walmart is taking a progressive approach to assuring the safety of the foods they sell. this is a win for the consumers, the beef industry in general, and walmart. the lessons learned from walmart’s approach will be applicable to ground beef sold everywhere.” several consumer groups have also expressed support for the measure. -->
Source :ausfoodnews.com.au
Date :
30
April
2010
Category :
Meat Products
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at a time when so many resources are being pumped into improving consumer health through food, it is pitifully ironic that more and more people are getting sick or dying from what they eat because of safety slips. a new report published last week by the us centers for disease control and prevention reveals a 50 percent increase in e coli infections since 2004, and a monstrous 78 percent increase in vibrio infections - caused by eating raw shellfish - over the past decade.
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all stakeholders have a “duty to work together” to deliver safe food, delegates at the global food safety conference were told overnight, with the industry needing to unite in order to shore up consumer confidence in the food supply chain. in welcoming a record-breaking 675 delegates from 39 countries to the conference, managing director of the consumer goods forum*, jean-marc saubade, said consumer confidence had been shaken the world over, following a series of high-profile food safety incidents.
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food manufacturers, in creating quality products, must be mindful of the potential choking hazards associated with their products, says intertek. the global food quality and safety analysts said that a training seminar they are hosting at their us facility in october provides in depth analysis and understanding of crucial food safety issues related to choking and choking prevention.
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the adoption of 44 new and amended food safety standards by the codex alimentarius commission signals the coming changes that member countries will make to their legislation over the next year. at a six-day meeting that ended last friday in rome, the international food safety body also established a comprehensive set of risk analysis principles to help governments establish their own standards, especially for food items that are not covered by codex.
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calls emerge in south africa for the country to streamline food safety standards in the wake of the uk's sudan 1 scare. according to reports in the country's business day journal, the body that represents south africa's €25 billion consumer goods industry - the consumer goods council - resolved at a meeting last month to form a unified food standards body in south africa, similar to the european union's.
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a bill to overhaul the food safety system needs to be stronger and incorporate more funding, food and drug administration (fda) commissioner margaret hamburg told a senate committee hearing on thursday. the proposed legislation is the companion bill to the food safety enhancement act that passed the house back in july, and hamburg said that she would like to see the senate version more closely resemble that legislation.
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a coalition of different environmental organisations, the zero mercury working group, claims that there are risks associated with eating fish due to its mercury content, and consumers need to be made aware of these through fish and seafood product labelling. the group maintains that the proposed european union regulation for labelling foodstuffs, currently being considered in the european parliament, should include advice for vulnerable groups about the mercury content of fish and seafood.
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