WASHINGTON, May 1 (UPI) — Obsolete laws, misallocation of resources and fragmented efforts by 15 federal food agencies result in gaps in U.S. food safety, a non-profit group maintains.

Apr 30, 2008 (CIDRAP News) – Calling the US food safety system antiquated and disjointed, a public health advocacy group today urged a major overhaul to make the system stronger, more coherent, and better attuned to today’s major threats.

Two Central Ohio establishments are called to Columbus Public Health for questioning regarding food safety violations.

WEDNESDAY, April 30 (HealthDay News) — The current system that guarantees the safety of food in the United States is in a state of crisis, a new report finds.

WASHINGTON — Trust for America’s Health (T.F.A.H.), an arm of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has issued a report “Fixing food safety: Protecting America’s food from farm-to-fork” that identifies gaps in the U.S. food safety system, including out-of-date laws, misallocation of resources and inconsistencies among food safety agencies.

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.—-Consumers are growing increasingly concerned about the safety, quality and social impact of their food. The Food Marketing Institute’s 2007 annual survey of consumer trends found a 20 percent decline in consumer confidence that supermarket food is safe.

30 April 2008 The Food Safety Authority is being accused of using spin to protect New Zealand’s dairy industry. An independent review has been carried out into a report written in 2004 on the safety of A1 and A2 milk.

The Food Safety Authority is being accused of using spin to protect New Zealand’s dairy industry.

Food safety officials bungled the release of a highly contentious report into the safety of milk but had not deliberately tried to suppress its findings, an external report released yesterday said.

Sterilox Food Safety, a division of PuriCore (LSE: PURI), today announced that the Organic Materials Review Institute (OMRI) has placed the Sterilox Solution on the OMRI Products List. The Sterilox Solution is used by leading US retail supermarket chains and foodservice operators to protect fresh produce, seafood, and floral products from harmful pathogens and cross-contamination. The OMRI …