I need to add two more bacterial outbreaks to my growing list of seven since January 2010. This just landed in my inbox from the Washington State Department of Agriculture – E. coli update: new illnesses point out potential raw milk hazards – Patients say they drank milk from Whatcom County dairy
Two recent infections
There have now been at least seven outbreaks of illness, involving three different dangerous pathogens, tied to raw milk since January 2010. There have been outbreaks in Minnesota, Nevada, Utah (2), New York and Pennsylvania, as well as a single outbreak that included illnesses in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. Raw milk consumers have been sickened
(From a company press release) – organicgirl Produce is voluntarily recalling a limited number of cases of 10 oz organicgirl Baby Spinach with an expired Use-by Date of May 22 and Product Code 11A061167 because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.
The recall includes only 336 cases of the 10
What can one lawyer do to change a food safety system that doesn’t do much to keep people safe? If you’re Bill Marler, spend over a half million dollars of your own money funding an independent study to try and make the USDA take action.
Bill Marler is a name people in the food industry
A BILL to amend the Federal Meat Inspection Act to revise the definition of the term ‘‘adulterated’’ to include contamination with E. coli.
William Neuman’s article “In E. Coli Fight, Some Strains Are Largely Ignored,” went live a few moments ago. It will be interesting to see if this prompts a serious reassessment by our government of the real risks of non-O157:H7’s. Although Mr. Neuman’s article will be read by a few more millions of people than
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Butte County Public Health Department has discovered additional Salmonella cases in an ongoing investigation which was prompted by numerous case reports of the food borne illness.
“More cases have been identified, and all of the cases are in Chico,” stated Mark Lundberg, M.D., Health Officer at Butte County Public Health. “Public Health staff are conducting
The Miami-Dade Health Department said today that a cook at the Bayside Chili’s restaurant has a confirmed case of a serious, contagious illness and likely prepared food with it for some time before it was finally diagnosed. The cook had gone to work with Typhoid fever for at least 10 days before going to the
Kudos to Mercy for Animals!
According to the prosecutor in Marysville, Ohio, several employees at Conklin Dairy Farms were caught on camera attacking some of the 200 cattle raised for their milk. A spokesperson for the prosecutor said the main perpetrator has been arrested. Billy Joe Gregg, Jr., is charged with 12 misdemeanor counts
Minnesota State health officials have linked three cases of E. coli O157:H7 illness with raw milk from a dairy farm in Gibbon, Minn. The Minnesota Department of Health urges anyone who may have recently purchased milk from the Hartmann Dairy Farm, also known as M.O.M.’s, to discard the product and not consume it. The milk
