
California Dairy Water Restrictions and Super Bowl Food Safety
**To reduce nitrates and ensure people have access to safe drinking water, the state of California has proposed tighter water quality requirements for all dairies that collect dairy waste and apply it to land.
Kari Fisher, senior director and counsel at the California
Farm Bureau, says the draft order, as proposed, establishes new groundwater quality protection requirements that would apply to all California dairies that apply their dairy waste to land.
**If you’re hosting a Super Bowl party this year, keep food safety in your playbook.
The USDA says one of the biggest threats to a successful game day meal is bacteria that causes foodborne illness.
Pizza, chicken wings, hamburgers, chili, and other Super Bowl favorites shouldn’t stay at room temp for more than two hours.
Serve takeout or delivered food promptly or keep smaller portions refrigerated until ready to serve.
**The first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu has been reported on a California duck farm.
Reuters says authorities also detected the more common H5N1 strain on the same Merced County farm.
A recent bird flu outbreak in Georgia poultry is set to trigger trade restrictions from major meat importers.
The USDA attributes the rise in egg costs to the bird flu outbreak that’s put a strain on the number of layers.
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