72 persons infected with a strain of E. coli O157:H7 with a particular DNA fingerprint have been reported from 30 states. Of these, 51 have been confirmed by an advanced DNA test as having the outbreak strain; these confirmatory test results are pending on the others. The number of ill persons identified in each state
FSIS – Follow Your Own Damn Rules and Tell the Public Where the E. coli O157:H7-tainted JBS Swift Meat Went.
On August 18, 2008 after years of hand wringing, the FSIS finally put public health before “proprietary” business interests when it made the following rule:
9 C.F.R. § 390.10 Availability of Lists of Retail Consignees during Meat or Poultry Product Recalls
The Administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service will make publicly available the
Label Instructions and Cooking Times for Retail Frozen Ground Beef Patties
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Thirty-Two Years Later
A dear friend, and former campaign staffer (I had one) sent me the below flyer (only did one) when I ran and was elected to the Pullman City Council in 1977 by 63 votes! I was 19 years old. I have not changed much at all.
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Of course, I do know it is not effect, but
ABC Brian Hartman Reports – “Smoking Gun” Found in Nestle Cookie Dough E. coli Scare
Brian Hartman of ABC reports that FDA investigators today found E. coli O157:H7 at the plant in Danville, Virginia where Nestle makes Toll House Cookie Dough.
The bacteria, according to an FDA official, was found at the plant in an unopened package of raw chocolate chip cookie dough. It had been manufactured on February 10
Plainview Milk Products Cooperative Recalls Two Years of Various Products Due to Potential Salmonella Contamination
Plainview Milk Products Cooperative, Plainview, Minn., is voluntarily recalling instant nonfat dried milk, whey protein, fruit stabilizers, and gums (thickening agents) that it has manufactured over the past two years, because they might be contaminated with Salmonella. The company sells these products to other industry customers, including distributors and manufacturers, who may have incorporated them
Are JBS Swift E. coli Recalls Linked to Illnesses in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah and Wisconsin? Canada?
Sometime in the early hours of June 28, JBS Swift Beef Company expanded the approximately 40,000 pounds of “assorted beef primals” recalled on June 24 to include another approximately 380,000 pounds of “assorted beef primals" due to E. coli O157:H7 contamination.
So, are the illnesses in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska
JBS Swift Beef Company Expands Recall of Beef Products Due To E. coli O157:H7 Contamination – 24 Illnesses in Multiple States Appear Linked.
Recall Release CLASS I RECALL
FSIS-RC-034-2009 HEALTH RISK: HIGH
Well, I was right to speculate a few days ago that the June 24 recall of JBS Swift meat might well be related to illnesses. It seems like "E. coli O157:H7 Season is Nearly Upon Us – Will it be 2005 and 2006 or 2007 and 2008?"
Who Poisoned the Cookie Dough?
What if the cookie dough E. coli outbreak actually happened this way?
At 10:00 PM last night between yet another story about Michael Jackson’s death, a foreign Network begin airing a video taken inside a manufacturing facility showing someone treating a batch of cookie dough with an unknown liquid. There is a claim that this
William Marler Opinion – Sellers of E. coli – Stop Blaming the Victims
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“It was not the failure of the cookie dough manufacturer for not keeping cattle feces (E. coli) out of cookie dough that sickened the child, it is the fault of the parent who allowed the child to eat the dough.”
I have received several calls and emails like the above over the last few days