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Food Safety Violations Found at State Prisons

The Kansas Department of Corrections acknowledges that its inspectors consistently found dirty kitchens and other food safety violations at several state prisons. The department does its own inspections, although it follows Kansas Department of Agriculture food safety guidelines. The Topeka …

Schwan’s Georgia Plant Gets 32 Health and Safety Citations

An Atlanta branch of a Minnesota-based food production company was slapped with 32 health and safety violations, federal regulators announced Wednesday. The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration describes the citations for Schwan’s Global Supply Chain Inc. as …

Fonterra Pleads Guilty to Food Safety Violations

New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra pleaded guilty Thursday to four food safety violations following a botulism scare last year. Government officials earlier in the day filed charges accusing the world’s largest dairy exporter of processing and exporting products in a …

Mississippi Meat Plants Often Cited for Food Safety Violations

The Jackson Clarion-Ledger reports that more than two dozen Mississippi slaughterhouses and poultry meat processing plants have violated sanitation or food safety guidelines over the past decade – and most did both. The newspaper analyzed records from the USDA’s Food …