On Friday, March 25 the Rhode Island Department of Health issued a recall of all baked goods from DeFusco’s Bakery in Johnston.
Cases of Illness between March 14 – April 7, 2011 (Last Report)
• 79 Cases Total
• 30 Hospitalizations
• 48 Lab-confirmed Salmonella
• 2 Salmonella-associated Deaths
We have been informed that DeFusco’s
On November 4, 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an alert to consumers and health professionals about an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in five states: Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Nevada. The alert was based on epidemiological evidence linking at least 25 E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in those states
In cooperation with the Mann’s Packing expanded voluntary recall of veggie platters, including the Eating Right Veggie Party Platter, Safeway Inc. is also recalling the Eating Right Veggie Party Platter sold at all Safeway and Safeway-owned stores.
This recalled product was packaged by Mann’s Packing using grape tomatoes sourced from grower Six L’s that were
I attended the Future of Food Conference in Washington D.C. this last week and was amazed by the speakers that author, Eric Schlosser, and the Washington Post put together. From Lucas Benitez, Co-Founder, Coalition of Immokalee Workers to Michael R. Taylor, Deputy Commissioner for Foods at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Wendell Berry, Author
Today Japanese police raided a low-price Korean-style barbecue restaurant chain to investigate the deaths of four people from food poisoning after they ate raw beef at its outlets. Police officers searched the head office of the chain’s operator Yakiniku-zakaya Ebisu barbecue chain and its supplier, Food Forus Co in Kanazawa in central Japan.
Ninety diners
Really? I had to learn it from a GAO Report that “[a]s of February 2011, officials for USDA’s meat and poultry regulatory program said that the department had developed standardized tests to detect all six strains.” Perhaps Secretary Vilsack was just too shy yesterday to tell me.
The last I heard (a few months ago)
When I was a kid, I used to make fried bologna sandwiches because I liked them, now at 54 (my birthday was a few days ago) it looks like I need to fry it because I have to.
I spoke with Beth Weise from USA Today about listeria a few days ago and according to
I just finished my speech at the GMA Food Litigation Conference and will be heading to the University of Chicago School of Law shortly. Tomorrow I will be speaking in upstate Minnesota at the MEHA Conference. Yesterday I attended the sustainable food conference in D.C. and still am perplexed why food safety was not a
Five cases of E. coli have been confirmed in Bell County, the Bell County Public Health District said Wednesday.
No other details were provided.
Most varieties of E. coli are harmless or may cause brief diarrhea, the health district said, and sometimes produce no symptoms at all, although the infection can be spread to others.
According to Japan press reports, Yasuhiro Kanzaka, president of Foods Forus Co., which runs the Yakiniku-zakaya Ebisu chain, has admitted his company had not tested raw meat served at its outlets for bacteria, as required by the health ministry, since 2009. The restaurant chain has been linked to 56 E. coli O111 illnesses and
