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 News Item (Source/Date Posted on Source)

Update on investigation into avian influenza outbreak in North Wales (Defra/ 5/27)

Improving food safety requires team effort (MeatNews.com/ 5/22)

U.S. Food Safety Policies Must Involve All Stakeholders (Newswise/ 5/21)

Incidents report published (Food Standards Agency/ 5/15)

1,300 food incidents investigated in UK last year, says report (Food Production Daily/ 5/16)

FAO looks to organics for food security (Food Production Daily/ 5/14)

USDA Wrong Place to Consolidate Food Safety, Says CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest/ 5/09)

UN researchers examine chlorine use in food manufacturing (Food Production Daily/ 5/02)

Commission rethinks hygiene amendment proposal (Food Production Daily/ 5/03)

FAO/WHO expert meeting on viruses in food (World Health Organization)

Codex-Angola Creates Food Inspectors Team (allAfrica.com/ 4/25)

WHO may set up bird flu vaccine stockpile for poor (Reuters Health/ 4/25)

Legal experts discuss food-safety deficiencies (MeatNews.com/ 4/23)

Zoonoses legislation… Use eggs for confirmation, says BEIC (The Poultry Site/ 4/20)

FASS Food Safety, Animal Health, and Animal Drugs Scientific Advisory Committee Annual Meeting with the Regulatory Agencies (Federation of Animal Science Societies)

Defra publishes final epidemiology report into the Suffolk avian flu outbreak (DEFRA/ 4/19)

Ozone & UV technologies event planned (MeatNews.com/ 4/19)

Food Safety Leadership winners (MeatNews.com/ 4/19)

Food incidents guidance published (Food Standards Agency/ 4/18)

Meat Scientist Wins Top National Award (Meat and Poultry Online/ 4/18)

Food safety remains a priority for industry (Food Production Daily/ 4/11)

Produce Safety a Top Concern (National Restaurant Association/ 4/11)

Grant will help fund Campylobacter research (New Zealand Food Safety Authority/ 4/11)

Meat hygiene code under discussion (MeatNews.com/ 4/10)

UK Salmonella control measures ‘OK’ (MeatNews.com/ 4/09)

Consumer Protection Key Focus for New Chairman of FSAI (FSAI/ 4/02)

APEC food-safety forum set (MeatNews.com/ 4/02)

Meat inspection consultation launched (Food Production Daily/ 4/02)

Baxter says data promising on pandemic flu vaccine (Reuters Health/ 3/29)

Asian bank will help Bangladesh fight bird flu (Reuters Health/ 3/29)

AMI Calls Beef and Sperm Count Paper a Health Study in Search of a Health Problem (American Meat Institute/ 3/29)

EFSA meets in Germany (MeatNews.com/ 3/28)

R-CALF against OTM rule (MeatNews.com/ 3/28)

Center for Food Integrity formed (MeatNews.com/ 3/27)

Genomics Throws Species Definition in Question for Microbes (American Society for Microbiology/ 3/27)

International food safety experts meet in Paihia (New Zealand Food Safety Authority/ 3/27)

Food safety at Maverick Ranch (MeatNews.com/ 3/26)

UK looking for food safety official (MeatNews.com/ 3/23)

Pacific Rim Bioinformatics Collaboration on Avian Flu (Newswise/ 3/22)

BIO Announces New Emerging Technologies Area at 2007 BIO International Convention (BIO/ 3/13)

International meeting considers emerging food-safety risks (Food Standards Agency / 3/09)

WORC wants COOL of beef (MeatNews / 3/09)

OIE says US a mad cow 'controlled risk' country (Reuters Health/ 3/09)

USDA should withdraw OTM rule: R-CALF (MeatNews / 3/08)

Cooperative, Non-Competitive Approach to Food Safety and Inspection Yields Meat Safety Improvements, AMI Says in Hill Testimony (American Meat Institute/ 2/09)

CSPI Petitions FDA to Regulate Manure, Water and Sanitation on Farms (Center for Science in the Public Interest / 11/15)

Institute for OneWorld Health awarded $46 million grant to combat diarrheal disease (Eurek Alert / 11/1)

CSPI to Convene Forum on Corporate Influence on Federal Advisory Committees (Center for Science in the Public Interest / 7/17)

Globalization Brings Food Safety Issues Home (NewsWise.com / 5/16)

Statement of CSPI Senior Staff Attorney Benjamin Cohen on Proposed Food-Safety Rollback (Center for Science in the Public Interest / 4/24)

AMI Supports Efforts of FDA to Protect Industry from BSE (MeatAMI.com / 12/20)

First Call For The 2006 NSF Food Safety Leadership Awards Program (Meat and Poultry Online News / 11/4)

Atlanta Targeted for Food Defense Conference (NewsWise.com / 9/13)

Global ISO food safety standard published (FoodProductionDaily.com / 9/9)

Report recommends renewed focus on food and agriculture research

(Eurek Alert / 8/3)

Research Opportunities in Food and Agriculture Microbiology - pdf file (American Society for Microbiology / 8/3)

Big food sets up safety watchdog (Guardian Unlimited / 6/26)

AMI Foundation Issues Request for Research Proposals on Pathogen Control for Meat and Poultry Products (MeatAMI.com / 6/16)

CSPI Releases Global Food Safety Report (Center for Science in the Public Interest / 6/8)

Conference Eyes Global Food Trade, Safety, Security (NewsWise.com / 6/3)

CSPI Announces Food-Safety Conference at the WHO (Center for Science in the Public Interest / 5/24)

American Chemical Society Broadens Access to Its Articles (NewsWise.com / 3/9)

AMI Foundation Funds Four New Projects To Reduce Pathogens In Meat Products (MeatAMI.com / 2/3)

Food Products Association Applauds USDA for “Sound, Science-Based Response to BSE (Food Products Association / 2/3)

American Academy of Microbiology report proposes initiative to interpret genome data (American Society for Microbiology / 1/24)

Cal Dooley Named NFPA President and CEO (National Food Processors Association /12/21)

A U.S. poultry group organizes a food and facility security seminar for next year. (MeatNews.com / 12/15)

USA: NFPA names new president and CEO (Just-Food.com / 12/6)

NFPA To Become Food Products Association (FPA) (National Food Processors Association /12/1)

CSPI Reaction to Resignation of Ag Secretary Veneman (Center for Science in the Public Interest / 11/15)