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(<a rel="nofollow" href="#jump1">more</a>)<br /> <font color="#999999" size="2">E-mail our editor at <a href="mailto:enewsed@wiley.com">enewsed@wiley.com</a> </font> <!-- end: section 1, teaser 1 --> <hr color="#000000" size="1" /> <!-- begin: section 1, teaser 2 --> <font color="#8e0122" size="4"> <b>Nonprofits Call for Greater Government Role in Food Safety</b> </font><br /> <font size="1">&nbsp;</font><br /> <b>Report recommends creation of Food Safety Administration</b><br /> <font size="1">&nbsp;</font><br /> Trust for America's Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a report in March that calls for a more coordinated food safety structure within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (<a rel="nofollow" href="#jump2">more</a>)<br /> <font color="#999999" size="2">E-mail our editor at <a href="mailto:enewsed@wiley.com">enewsed@wiley.com</a> </font> <!-- end: section 1, teaser 2 --> <hr color="#000000" size="1" /> <!-- begin: section 1, teaser 3 --> <table cellspacing="5" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="right" width="150" id="table3"> <tr> <td><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="3"> <img hspace="0" height="167" border="0" width="200" alt="" src="http://www.ezsub.net/wiley/FQU/200904b/salmonella.jpg" /></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td><font face="arial" color="#999999" size="1"><b><i>Salmonella</i> can become highly virulent when exposed to micro-gravity.</b></font></td> </tr> </table> <font color="#8e0122" size="4"> <b>Solving Salmonella Mysteries in Outer Space</b> </font><br /> <font size="1">&nbsp;</font><br /> <b>Space research may help control the leading foodborne pathogen</b><br /> <font size="1">&nbsp;</font><br /> Space research has revealed that <i>Salmonella</i> grows to be more or less virulent depending on its environment, experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reported recently. 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The USDA should promptly issue a new rule to cover all these defects in the existing rule.</font><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="3">&mdash;Jaydee Hanson, Center for Food Safety </font> </b></p> </td> </tr> </table> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Such products fall under the requirements of the Agricultural Marketing Service&rsquo;s (AMS) final rule, <i>Mandatory Country of Origin Labeling of Beef, Pork, Lamb, Chicken, Goat Meat, Perishable Agricultural Commodities, Peanuts, Pecans, Ginseng, and Macadamia Nuts</i>. FSIS has amended its regulations to agree with the Agricultural Marketing Service&rsquo;s (AMS) final rule on Country of Origin Labeling (COOL). <br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; According to one food analyst, however, the final rule doesn&rsquo;t properly address problems related to the labeling of products from multiple countries of origin.<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;[The rule] should require labels like: born in El Salvador, raised in Mexico, slaughtered in the U.S.,&rdquo; said Jaydee Hanson, a policy analyst with the Center for Food Safety (CFS), a nonprofit advocacy organization. <br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The processed food definition is too broad, and it excludes cured, broiled, smoked, grilled, steamed, and commingled products, Hanson added. &ldquo;Moreover, it allows a label for ground meat to bear the name of a country even if product from that country was not in the inventory for up to 60 days,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;This broad definition borders on fraud. The USDA should promptly issue a new rule to cover all these defects in the existing rule.&rdquo; <br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; For more information about the COOL rule, visit <a href="http://mail.starrpublisher.com/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=1083&e=MzkzOTk4&l=-http--www.ams.usda.gov/cool">http://www.ams.usda.gov/cool</a>. <br /> <br /> </font> <a rel="nofollow" name="jump2"> <font face="Arial" color="#8e0122" size="4"> <b>Nonprofits Call for Greater Government Role in Food Safety</b><br /> </font> </a> <font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="3"> <b>Report recommends creation of Food Safety Administration</b><br /> <br /> Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released a report in March that calls for a more coordinated food safety structure within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).<br /> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="12" bordercolor="#111111" border="0" align="left" width="300"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><b> <font face="Arial" color="#8e0122" size="4"> The system is outdated and unable to effectively deal with today's threats.</font><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="3">&mdash;Michael R. Taylor, JD, George Washington University </font> </b></p> </td> </tr> </table> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The report, <i>Keeping America's Food Safe: A Blueprint for Fixing the Food Safety System at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services</i>, recommends that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) immediately establish a Deputy Commissioner with line authority over all food safety programs, including the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the Center for Veterinary Medicine, and the food functions of the Office of Regulatory Affairs. <br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The report also recommends that Congress ultimately create a separate Food Safety Administration to exist within HHS. According to the report, the Food Safety Administration should strategically align and elevate the food safety functions currently housed at the FDA and should better coordinate the way the FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and state and local agencies respond to foodborne illness outbreaks.<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The current food safety structure actually prevents the kind of coordinated, focused effort that Americans need, Jeff Levi, PhD, executive director of TFAH, said in a news release. &quot;The system is outdated and unable to effectively deal with today's threats,&rdquo; he said. <br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &quot;FDA certainly needs a modern food safety law and more resources, but to make good use of these tools, HHS needs a unified and elevated management structure for food safety that can implement a science- and risk-based food safety program dedicated to preventing foodborne illness,&quot; Michael R. Taylor, JD, research professor of health policy at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., said in a news release.<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The report is available at <a href="http://mail.starrpublisher.com/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=1083&e=MzkzOTk4&l=-http--www.healthyamericans.org"> www.healthyamericans.org</a>. <br /> <br /> </font> <font face="Arial" color="#8e0122" size="4"> <a rel="nofollow" name="jump3"> <font face="Arial" color="#8e0122" size="4"> <b>Solving <i>Salmonella</i> Mysteries in Outer Space</b><br /> </font> </a> <font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="3"> <b>Space research may help control the leading foodborne pathogen</b><br /> <br /> Space research has revealed that <i>Salmonella</i> grows to be more or less virulent depending on its environment, experts at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) reported recently. <br /> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="12" bordercolor="#111111" border="0" align="left" width="300"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="right"><b> <font face="Arial" color="#8e0122" size="4"> This research opens up new areas for investigations that may improve food treatment, develop new therapies and vaccines to combat food poisoning in humans here on Earth, and protect astronauts on orbit from infectious disease.</font><font face="Arial" color="#000000" size="3">&mdash;Julie Robinson, PhD, NASA </font> </b></p> </td> </tr> </table> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The <i>Salmonella</i> experiments were flown on shuttle missions to the International Space Station (ISS) in September 2006 and March 2008. The 2006 results showed that the space environment causes a short-term alteration in <i>Salmonella</i> virulence&mdash;the bacteria cultured in space were more virulent than those on Earth. (Wilson JW, Ott C, H&ouml;ner zu Bentrup, et al. Space flight alters bacterial gene expression and virulence and reveals a role for global regulator Hfq. <i>Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A</i>. 2007;104(41):16299-16304.)<br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The 2008 experiment confirmed the 2006 results and demonstrated that a change in the growth environment of the bacteria could control its virulence. There is no evidence that the space-grown bacteria sustained these effects for long periods after returning to Earth. (Wilson JW, Ott CW, Quick L, et al. Media ion composition controls regulatory and virulence response of <i>Salmonella</i> in spaceflight. <i>PLoS One</i>. 2008;3(12):e3923.) <br /> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &ldquo;This research opens up new areas for investigations that may improve food treatment, develop new therapies and vaccines to combat food poisoning in humans here on Earth, and protect astronauts on orbit from infectious disease,&rdquo; Julie Robinson, PhD, ISS program scientist at NASA&rsquo;s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, said in a news release. <br /> <br /> </font> <font face="Arial" size="3"> <b> This e-Newsletter is for subscribers to <i>Food Quality</i>. &nbsp;If you don&rsquo;t currently subscribe and would like to, please visit <a href="http://mail.starrpublisher.com/12all/lt/t_go.php?i=1083&e=MzkzOTk4&l=-http--www.foodquality.com" target="_blank">www.foodquality.com</a> and click the offer to subscribe near the top. </b> <br /> </font> </font></td> <td width="45">&nbsp;</td> </tr> </table> <p><font size="1">&nbsp;</font></p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bordercolor="#111111" border="0" width="800"> <tr> <td width="100%"> <p align="justify"><font face="Arial" size="1"> Copyright 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., a Wiley Company. 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