Food Allergy Recalls

Sample Food Label

 Are you getting timely recall notices from food manufacturers when a product ingredient label is incorrect? The food allergy community counts on those labels to be right and I continue to be amazed at how many recall notices I get in my email box each week. If you haven't signed up for a recall service, here are a few options:

• FAAN's Special Allergy Alert Notices
• Food Safety's Allergy Alerts
• Canadian Food Inspection Agency
• The Food Allergy Foundation
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Check them out, choose the one you like and get those email alerts so you're aware of label errors.

Food Safety News

Phyllis Entis, a food safety microbiologist and author of "Food Safety: Old Habits, New Perspectives" and "Food Microbiology - The Laboratory", maintains a very informative blog about food safety. She wrote a thorough discussion about the TollHouse Cookie dough re-call and provides a food recall round-up each week.

Her blog isn't necessarily directed toward food allergies, but it is helpful for anyone who eats food.

Take a look.

Also, check out her discussion about the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. There's even a link if you want to read all 116 pages of the act.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to live in a world where all foods must be labelled with their country of origin and where food manufacturers can't refuse the FDA's request to recall foods. Oh yeah, and how about out-of compliance facilities having to pay for their own recalls and re-inspections rather than the FDA (meaning the government...translation, your money and mine through taxes)?

That's in there too.