FDA, CDC, and Costco warn consumers to avoid Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda cheese
* Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda cheese, (Costco item 40654) offered for sale and in cheese sampling events at Costco Wholesale Corporation (Costco) locations is preliminarily linked with an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections.
* As of Thursday, November 4
FDA, CDC, and Costco is warning consumers to avoid Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda cheese due to possible E. coli contamination. According to breaking press reports, Arizona has confirmed 11 E. coli cases likely tied to cheese sold or tasted at Costco stores in October. Overall, more than two dozen cases of E. coli in
For a Company that sells (or used to sell) vegetables to our kids and grandparents, the below is not a good FDA 483 Inspection Report. This of course also follows positive Listeria tests within the plant and the linking of SanGar celery to nearly a dozen illnesses and as many as five deaths.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) confirmed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in processed celery at the SanGar Fresh Cut Produce facility in San Antonio. The results matched the initial testing done by Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), which had closed down the facility on Oct. 20 after the Listeria bacteria was
The Stanford raw milk lactose intolerance study was touted (and funded) by raw milk proponents in the belief that it would prove a benefit of raw milk over pasteurized milk. However, that was before the study’s results:
These results, collected under standardized and controlled conditions, do not support the widespread anecdotal claims by proponents that
