BINGHAMTON, N.Y. State health officials say the number of salmonella cases tied to tainted peanut butter in New York has risen to 48. That’s more than ten percent of the 425 cases reported nationwide.
Although jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter were removed from store shelves three weeks ago, the number of
Hepatitis Shots all around at L.A.’s restaurants?
I was interviewed this morning by NPR’s marketplace – Listen to this story by Helen Palmer:
Los Angeles County officials are considering whether to give Hepatitis A vaccinations to some 100,000 food-service workers after an infected cook was found to be working for a local catering company.
KAI RYSSDAL: You know those signs in restaurant
I’m being challenged by my associate!
Dean Baker of the Vancouver Columbian wrote today: Farm where E. coli found has new plan to operate business
In Seattle, attorney Drew Falkenstein said his firm is in mediation with the farm owners as it pursues legal action on behalf of two families whose members got ill. Falkenstein’s firm, Marler Clark, specializes in food
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More Headaches for Con Agra
Vietnam recalls US peanut butter suspected of causing typhoid
Vietnam authorities are set to recall peanut butter brands imported from the US Monday after cases of infection with bacterium salmonella – linked as a causative agent for typhoid – were reported in the US. Authorities are to withdraw from circulation 24 jars of peanut butter
Salmonella Lighting Strikes Twice?
Earlier Peanut Butter Contamination Kept Quiet?
In the March 5, 2007 posting in www.consumeraffairs.com a “Retiree Says Infested Peanut Butter Was Quietly Buried.” The full story:
While the Peter Pan/Great Value peanut butter episode took most consumers — and, seemingly, most food safety regulators — by surprise, it was nothing new to Sanford Bass, a Topeka, Kansas, retiree.
As Bass remembers it, the first Peter Pan peanut butter salmonella outbreak occurred back in 1971 or 1972. He was then working for Derby Foods, a division of Swift & Co., in Chicago.
“We recalled (the peanut butter) to our broker warehouses, loaded it into 13 box cars, and buried it in a phosphate mine owned by Swift in Agricola, Fla., located on the then-Seaboard Coastline Railroad,” he told ConsumerAffairs.Com.
Peanut Butter scare spreads further
According to the CDC, the contaminated peanut butter products have to date sickened only 329 people with 51 needing hospital treatment. We believe that these numbers are a gross under-count if the over 4,500 calls and emails we have received are any example of the extent of this miscount. We believe that this disparity in
Farm company in cross hairs of spinach probe
Julia Prodis Sulek and Brandon Bailey of the San Jose Mercury News reported:
The first time Mission Organics used the 50 acres south of Hollister to grow spinach last summer — trying to get organic certification for the fertile land next to the San Benito River — a farmer’s worst nightmare happened. A federal investigation
Ground beef distributed throughout Northwest recalled due to possible E. coli contamination
According to the Associated Press and the USDA, a Washington company is recalling ground beef distributed throughout the Northwest because the meat may be contaminated with E. coli bacteria. The U.S. Department of Agriculture said late Friday that Tyson Fresh Meats of Wallula, Wash. shipped 16,743 pounds of the suspect meat to distributors in Oregon,
