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2019-10-07

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  • Denial of Temporary Religious Worker Visa Upheld

    In Calvary Albuquerque Inc. v. Blinken, (D NM, March 13, 2024), a New Mexico federal district court dismissed challenges to the denial of an R-1 (Temporary Religious Worker) visa for Stefen Green, a South African citizen who was to be hired as Calvary Church’s Worship Director. At issue was the fact that Green received honoraria and...

  • Mexico often linked to U.S. travel-associated outbreaks

    Researchers have analyzed travel-associated infections in people returning to the United States from abroad. From 2017 to 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention investigated 41 multistate outbreaks of non-typhoidal Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) linked to international travel. In the same time frame, CDC handled 470 domestic possible and confirmed multiple state outbreaks caused by Salmonella,...

  • Faces of Food Safety: Meet Ciarra Toomey

    FSIS’ International Liaison Director in Mexico City, Mexico, Ciarra Toomey, began her USDA career in 2008 as a trial attorney with the Office of the General Counsel’s (OGC) Trade Practices Division, now the Marketing, Regulatory and Food Safety Programs Division. In her role with OGC, Toomey represented and provided legal counsel to USDA agencies, including...

  • FDA weighs in on Oyster Norovirus Outbreaks sickening hundreds in California

    Audience Product The following product tags are provided to be representative of labeling that would accompany the implicated oysters and could include the various harvest dates as identified in this safety alert. Purpose The FDA is advising restaurants and food retailers not to serve or sell and to dispose of and consumers not to eat...

  • Over 200 with Norovirus in California linked to Oysters from Mexico

    The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is reporting that there are more than 150 suspected local cases of gastrointestinal illness linked to the consumption of raw oysters, likely caused by norovirus. At this time, Public Health is warning consumers not to eat raw oysters from Laguna De Guerrero Negro, Baja California, Mexico; Laguna...

  • Hundreds with Norovirus in California due to Oysters

    Oyster associated norovirus cases are also being reported in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties. Both the California Department of Public Health and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are now actively engaged in the investigation.   The investigation of oyster-linked illnesses by County of San Diego health officials has expanded to include...

  • More with Norovirus in San Diego linked to Mexican Oysters

    Oyster associated norovirus cases are also being reported in Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, Ventura, and Los Angeles counties. Both the California Department of Public Health and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are now actively engaged in the investigation.   The investigation of oyster-linked illnesses by County of San Diego health officials has expanded to include...

  • Oyster Norovirus Outbreak hits 191 in Los Angeles and San Diego

    The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is reporting that there are more than 150 suspected local cases of gastrointestinal illness linked to the consumption of raw oysters, likely caused by norovirus. At this time, Public Health is warning consumers not to eat raw oysters from Laguna De Guerrero Negro, Baja California, Mexico; Laguna...

  • FDA issues warning about certain supplements with toxic yellow oleander

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a warning about certain tejocote root supplements substituted with toxic yellow oleander. FDA analysis has determined that certain dietary supplements labeled as tejocote (Crataegus mexicana) root because they were tested and found to be substituted with yellow oleander (Cascabela thevetia), a poisonous plant native to Mexico and...

  • Banning horse exports for slaughter might take a ride on the Farm Bill or another big spending measure

    The number of horses likely being exported for slaughter has not dropped off anywhere near enough for animal activists. It is believed that Mexican slaughter plants during 2023 took 17,997 horses from Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas, according to the non-governmental organization Animal Wellness Action. The Washington D.C.-based group says: “This was the  most significant...

Featured documents

  • DOJ Antitrust Highlights

    On May 27, Cal Dive International, Inc. (“Cal Dive”) announced that it received a second request from the DOJ in connection with its pending acquisition of the Inspection, Maintenance and Repair (“IMR”) and Conventional assets, that form part of the North America and Mexico (“NAMEX”) business of...

  • Mexico Increases its Focus on Transfer Pricing Through Tax Audits and Financial Statement Review

    After the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development criticized Mexico for an inadequate number of transfer pricing audits, Mexico agreed to correct the problem.  In 2004, Mexico’s Finance Ministry split the Central Administration for International Fiscal Audits (“CAIFA”) into two...

  • Paramilitary Police Need Hurts Recruiting

    Jack Love at New Mexico Law and Society questions the recruiting requirements for Police in his neck of the woods. Apparently Albuquerque is experiencing a severe shortage of police officers at the moment. First, the idea of paramilitary police should be examined. Some police ought to be...

  • E. coli contaminated meat in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.

    According to Los Angeles AP, for the third time in a week, a meat supplier has expanded a ground beef recall to include about 5.7 million pounds of fresh and frozen meat because they may be contaminated with E. coli.  David Goldman, acting administrator of the USDA Food Safety and Inspection...

  • More concerns raised about Mexican trucks on US highways

    We are seeing more concerns raised about safety of Mexican trucks coming into the US. Among the points raised recently are: •  Full access has not been granted to the Mexican license record database.  Border facilities have this access, but more than 15% of the time the records are missing entirely....

  • Broadcast Station Reminder: Biennial Ownership Reports due June 1 for Select States

    Affected Stations:   Radio Stations in Michigan and Ohio Television Stations in Arizona, Idaho, Maryland, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming, as well as the District of Columbia Just a reminder that by June 1, 2008, radio stations in Michigan and Ohio, and television...

  • CDC’s Tauxe Says Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak Investigation Now Looking Beyond Tomatoes

    The fact the number of confirmed cases of Salmonella Saintpaul continued to rise on Monday was not the big worry for the Centers for Disease Conrol and Prevention (CDC). It was the fact that the date that people continued to fall ill continues to move forward, now the latest onset date for the...

  • Nation’s Largest Low-Level Radioactive Waste Site to Be Built in West Texas

    Washington Energy Report January 23, 2009 On January 14, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) approved an order granting Waste Control Specialists, LLC (“WCS”) licenses to operate a new low-level radioactive waste (“LLRW”) disposal facility in West Texas. The Commissioners voted 2-...

  • Texas Employers Prepare Now for Swine Flu Pandemic

    With our close proximity to Mexico and the outbreak of reported swine flu infections in that country, Texas employers have a greater need to prepare their workforces for a swine flu pandemic.  There are now reported cases of swine flu in Fort Worth, Richardson, and Guadalupe County (near San...

  • Interior Department Expedites Solar Energy Development in the West

        The U.S. Interior Department has instigated initiatives to accelerate the development of solar energy on Western lands. About 670,000 acres currently administered by the Bureau of Land Management (“BLM”) in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah will be evaluated for the dev...

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