Year: 2024

FDA Advises Restaurants and Retailers Not to Serve or Sell and Consumers Not to Eat Certain Frozen, Raw, Half-shell Oysters from Republic of Korea Potentially Contaminated with Norovirus

May 24, 2024 FDA

JJBR (KR-15-SP) Tongyeong, Republic of Korea (ROK) is recalling frozen half-shell oysters with lot number B231227 because they may be contaminated with norovirus. The recalled oysters were harvested from ROK Designated Area No. 1 on 12/27/2023. They were processed by JBR (KR-15-SP) in Tongyeong, ROK on 12/28/2023 as frozen half-shell oysters, with lot number B231227. These oysters were distributed by Khee Trading, Inc. (Compton, CA), which is also recalling these oysters. …

How California is Building Career Pathways to its Next Big Economic Sector: The Ocean

May 24, 2024 SONYA CHRISTIAN AND TERRY TAMMINEN, Cal Matters

Enter the “blue” economy: one of the fastest growing economic sectors in California. From ocean exploration and regenerative aquaculture to underwater robotics and renewable energy, the blue economy is expected to create new jobs of every kind, bringing opportunities that can benefit diverse communities. Prior to the pandemic, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development projected the blue economy would reach $3 trillion in global value by 2030. …

Pork Company Niman Ranch Criticizes EATS Act Inclusion in House Farm Bill Framework

May 24, 2024 Niman Ranch

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., released the outline of a new farm bill Wednesday that includes language based off the highly controversial Ending Agricultural Trade Suppression (EATS) Act, with the goal of rolling back California’s Proposition 12 (Prop 12) and other farm animal protection laws like it across the country. Prop 12 bans the use of gestation crates for pork production on farms in California as well as the in-state sale of certain fresh pork products that do not meet these gestation crate-free standards. …

Kunzler & Company Bought Out by Country’s 5th Largest Pork Processor

May 24, 2024 WJAC

Kunzler & Company, Inc., the Lancaster-based pork processing company, has reportedly been bought out by the 5th largest pork processor in the United States. …

EPA Considers Society of American Florists Guidance to Help Growers

May 24, 2024 Society of American Florists

The Society of American Florists (SAF), and its lobbyist continue to play a pivotal role in providing guidance to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as it works to revise rules regarding pesticide handling – a move that will eventually impact flower farmers across the nation. …