Latest effort to strengthen U.S. food defense

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has released a new tool to help bolster the food industry’s defense measures against an act of intentional food contamination. The Food Defense Plan Builder is a comprehensive, easy-to-use software program designed to help owners and operators of food facilities—ranging from primary production and manufacturing to retail and transportation—develop customized plans to minimize the risk of intentional contamination at their individual food facilities.

May 14, 2013

PHILADELPHIA – Saint Joseph’s senior righthander Kyle Mullen (Berwyn, Pa/St. Joseph’s Prep) has been named the Philadelphia Big 5 Baseball Pitcher of the Week. Mullen tied the school record for wins in a season on Friday night while the Hawks set a new team record for wins with their 26th of the year.

Mullen allowed one run and scattered eight hits while striking out eight in SJU’s 3-2 win at Saint Louis on Friday. He improved to 8-3 on the year, tying the Saint Joseph’s record for pitching victories in a season held by John Butz (1965) and Jed Johnson (1995). The win also gave the Hawks their 26th of the season, eclipsing the previous record of 25 set in 1995 and matched in 2012.

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WELL KNOWN PHYSICIAN RETIRES--Doctor Carl Vitola, a long time family physician in South Jersey, retired last week so he could devote more time to caring for his wife, Eileen, who is suffering with ALS.

Besides his family practice, he was also the school physician at Gloucester City High School since 1988. Although it wasn’t a requirement of the job, Dr. Vitola would attend the Lions home football games just in case one of the players got injured. He will continue to serve as school physician. 

 

-Six people, including four children, died in a raging fire that consumed a home in Pottsville just before midnight Sunday.

Unofficial reports from the scene indicate the children\’s father and an aunt — the father\’s sister — died with the four children. Their mother may have possibly been the only survivor, according to witnesses at the scene.

Reports from the scene indicate the family recently moved to Pottsville from the state of Washington.

The Schuylkill County Communications Center said the fire was reported at 11:55 p.m Sunday.

Initial emergency radio dispatches said one adult and four children were trapped in the fire, and the house was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.

Firefighters could not make entry into the home because of the extent of the fire, and onefirefighter may have been injured falling off a ladder, according to emergency radio dispatches.

The information from emergency radio dispatches and has not been confirmed by officials.

When firefighters first arrived, the back of the house was ablaze and the front of the house had flames shooting out the second-floor and attic windows.

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DNE World Fruit Sales, Fort Pierce, Fla., plans to complete a major upgrade of its bagging operations before the start of the summer citrus season.

South African sales manager Tom Cowan said the company added new Daurmar bagging equipment to its lines at World Pack in Gloucester City, N.J.; Sun Ag Packinghouse in Fellsmere, Fla.; and KPAC in Long Beach, Calif.

Photos from Tuesday’s events are available online HERE.

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(CNBNews.net)GLOUCESTER CITY NJ–Doctor Carl Vitola retired from his practice last week after 30 plus years of service to patients in the South Jersey area. Dr. Vitola will continue to serve as school physician for Gloucester City High School. His wife Eileen, who is suffering with ALS, worked in the doctor\’s office before she got sick. CNBNews reached out to the doctor and his wife for a comment.

Today, they released the following statement:

I met Carl at Gloucester City High School when I was 16, Carl was 18. I fell in love with him immediately. He was kind beyond words, and handsome. I admired him and his family.

by Kim Barker and Justin Elliott 

The same IRS office that deliberatelytargeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election released nine pending confidential applications of conservative groups to ProPublica late last year.