Beef Producer Loses Appeal in Suit Against Omaha Packinghouse Over E. Coli Contamination

A Colorado-based producer of “natural” beef lost its appeal Friday over whether it should be reimbursed for some meat that became contaminated with a dangerous strain of E. coli bacteria.

Two Brothers Pork Skins Recalls Pork Skin Products

March 25, 2019 USDA FSIS

Two Brothers Pork Skins, a Kannapolis, N.C. establishment, is recalling an undetermined amount of pork skin products because the products were produced without meeting the federal requirements to develop and implement a hazard analysis and system of preventive controls to improve the safety of the products, known as Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points; the omission of safe handling instructions on the package; and due to misbranding, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced.

North Country Smokehouse Recalls Ready-To-Eat Sausage Products

March 25, 2019 USDA FSIS

North Country Smokehouse, a Claremont, N.H. establishment, is recalling approximately 2,686 pounds of ready-to-eat sausage products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically metal, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced.

Albin Hagstrom & Son, Certified American Grown and Still Growing Four Generations Later

In the U.S. floral universe, Pierson, Florida, population 1,849, plays an outsized role. For any given bouquet of flowers, chances are pretty good that the greenery came from Pierson.

UNH Hosts Spring Greenhouse Open House April 5-6

March 25, 2019 UNH Cooperative Extension

Come learn about home gardening, landscaping, current horticultural research, and other growing information at the University of New Hampshire Spring Greenhouse Open House at the Macfarlane Research Greenhouses Friday, April 5, and Saturday, April 6, 2019. The greenhouses will be open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. both days.