Coral Beach of The Packer confirmed publicly what many knew for months – Costco continues to lead the way in food safety. According to The Packer, new pathogen testing requirements for produce companies supplying Costco Wholesale Corp. may be the first of their kind for a retailer, but Earthbound Farms and Ready Pac were already
Well, at least one of our Senators is reading Poisoned
Statement from U.S. Senator Patty Murray:
“We know that the U.S. has the safest food supply in the world, largely because of the joint efforts of the food industry and our regulatory agencies. But each year, millions of Americans are still getting sick as a result of food borne illnesses. I’ve worked with Bill since
Pilgrim’s Pride Hit Again with a Recall Due to Listeria
Today, Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, a firm with establishments in Mount Pleasant, TX and Waco, TX is recalling approximately 11,240 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The following products are subject to recall:
• 10 lb. boxes
Blue Lobster Farms Starts Sales of Salmonella Frogs
Moms and Dads urged not buy them for kids
According to AP, Blue Lobster Farms resumed selling African dwarf frogs that caused Salmonella illnesses in more than 240 people, most of them children, over the last few years.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention officials on Wednesday warned consumers that Blue Lobster Farms in June
Two Raw Milks – one for the Pasteurizer and one in the Raw
My friend, David Gumpert, over at the Complete Patient, took Food Safety News to task a bit the other day in his post – “The Food Safety Ideologues Have a New Spin on That Pesky WI Commercial Dairy Campy Outbreak; In Praise of Camel, Horse and Other Non-Cow’s Milk” over the reporters failure to note
Non-O157 E. coli in Beef – How does FSIS justify it?
Presently the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is holding hostage FSIS’s desire to move forward with deeming certain other non-O157 E. coli’s adulterants. I will forgo arguing that FSIS did not in fact need to ask OMB’s permission, or that it should have been done years ago, but WE are where WE are.
Tucker Adkins Raw Milk Dairy linked to as many as eight cases of Campylobacter
The FDA is working with officials in North Carolina and South Carolina to investigate an outbreak of campylobacteriosis in three people who consumed raw milk from Tucker Adkins Dairy in York, S.C. The three confirmed cases and another five probable cases are from three different households and each case reports that prior to becoming ill
500 Pennsylvania Inmates Sickened by Salmonella
According to the AP, the Pennsylvania Department of Health has confirmed a suspected outbreak of salmonella poisoning at a federal prison in northeastern Pennsylvania, that has reportedly sickened more than 500 inmates and guards.
The Health Department’s director of communications, Christine Cronkright, tells The Associated Press that most of those sickened at the U.S. Penitentiary-Canaan
Testing for non-O157 E. coli – “American consumers deserve no less”
In response to Obama Administration inaction, Congresswoman Rosa L. DeLauro issued a statement today following the announcement by Beef Products, Inc. (BPI) that it will begin testing for an additional six strains of E. coli currently not required by the U.S. Department of Agriculture:
… We know that these types of non-O157 shiga toxin-producing E.
Chronology of the E. coli O104:H4 Outbreak Investigation – The German EHEC Task Force Final Results
According to the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, as of today, the cumulative number of probable and confirmed STEC cases in the EU/EEA is 3,867 (not including six in the United States, including one death). This includes 762 HUS STEC cases and 3,105 non-HUS STEC cases. In total, 44 infected persons have died