March 2009

With a current population of 1,319,175,333, according to the China Ministry of Health, there were 431 food poisoning incidents reported in China last year, causing 13,095 illnesses, and 154 deaths.

The United States current population is 306,090,800. Our version or the Ministry of Health, the CDC, reports approximately 76,000,000 illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and

Health officials now say more than 100 people reported getting sick after eating at an Applebee’s restaurant in suburban Syracuse.

The Onondaga County Health Department says it has confirmed seven cases of Shigellosis among people who ate at the Applebee’s in Camillus in early March. Shigellosis is a bacterial infection associated with consuming water or

The Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released a report which examines problems with the current system and proposes ways to improve the food safety functions at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to better protect the nation’s food supply.

Document Title: Keeping America’s Food Safe: A Blueprint

The FDA announced today that the Georgia Nut Company is recalling certain bulk wholesale and retail products containing shelled pistachio nuts that have the potential to be contaminated with the Salmonella organism. The Company said it identified the potential as a result of a rigorous sampling and testing regimen it conducted with respect to shelled

I got this email yesterday:

Zelda Parnell – March 24, 2009 3:56 PM

@hat an A>> Hole you are. You know you probably kept $299 million of the 300. I hope our government never stoops so low as to appoint you to the staff. It already has gone to hell in a hand basket and