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Mexican Papayas Outbreak Highlights Need for Better Import Monitoring

Mexican papayas outbreak highlights need for better import monitoring

Food SafetyJune 28, 2019Sarah Sorscher, JD, MPH

Comment on FDA guidance re: Initiation of voluntary recalls

Food Safety
Yuma Lettuce Outbreak Investigation Highlights Urgent Need to Fully Implement Food Safety Modernization Act

Yuma lettuce outbreak investigation highlights urgent need to fully implement Food Safety Modernization Act

It is time for the Food and Drug Administration to get serious about keeping pathogens from animal feces out of Americans’ produce.

Government AccountabilityNovember 1, 2018
Yuma Lettuce Outbreak Investigation Highlights Urgent Need to Fully Implement Food Safety Modernization Act

Reversing course, FDA to name retailers implicated in recalls

Today, the Food and Drug Administration published a draft guidance explaining how the agency plans to publish the names of retailers involved in food recalls. This information, long advocated for by CSPI, is necessary for consumers to understand whether they have purchased food that may be dangerous. Until now, the FDA has only released retailer information rarely and without a clear policy.

Government AccountabilitySeptember 26, 2018Sarah Sorscher, JD, MPH
Support the Expanded Food Safety Investigation Act of 2019

CSPI advises consumers to avoid romaine lettuce until FDA discloses retailers

The Food and Drug Administration should publish the names of retailers who received romaine lettuce covered in the recent Fresh Express recall. The romaine was implicated in a Cyclospora outbreak traced to McDonald’s salads. So far, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 286 people in 15 states have become ill in the outbreak. There have been 11 hospitalizations and no deaths.

Food SafetyAugust 1, 2018Sarah Sorscher, JD, MPH
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Consumer & food safety groups urge FDA to establish industry requirements to rapidly trace produce responsible for foodborne illnesses

The Center for Science in the Public Interest, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, The Pew Charitable Trusts and five other organizations pressed the FDA in a letter today to take action in light of the still unsolved multistate outbreak of E. coli infections linked to romaine lettuce that has sickened more than 170 people and caused one death.

Food SafetyMay 24, 2018
Supermarkets Do Uneven Job Notifying Consumers of Recalls

Supermarkets do uneven job notifying consumers of recalls

Food SafetyAugust 24, 2016
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"All-Natural Herbal" Supplement May Illegally Harbor Prescription Drug

Government AccountabilityAugust 20, 2007
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USDA needs mandatory recall authority, says CSPI

Government AccountabilityJanuary 7, 2004
turkey gravy in a white bowl with a bowl of mashed sweet potatoes next to it

USDA faulted for not testing turkey

Government AccountabilityNovember 19, 2003
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