This list is not intended to be an exhaustive review of the many failures, violations, and non-compliances that a rigorous audit should have identified. Again, the condition of Jensen’s facility on review by the FDA and Colorado State officials simply cannot be reconciled with the glowing review that Mr. Dilorio gave the facility and farms
Food Safety – Do Not be a “Penny Wise and a Pound Foolish”
We should consider saving the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Microbiological Data Program.
The Deadly 2011 Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak – My View Part 4
As has been widely reported, Jensen Farms facility was audited by Primus Labs’[1] agent Bio Food Safety on July 25, 2011, mere days before the first illness was reported. Auditor James Dilorio gave the facility a “superior” rating, and a score of 96%, noting that many of the pieces of equipment, and many of
Complete Patient outs Claravale Farm as Source of Outbreak – Likely Campylobacter
Social media will one day win a Pulitzer for giving people information long before the mainstream media (including, Food Safety News) even wakes up. Thanks to the folks (Pope David) at Complete Patient for doing such a public service. Here are some hot comments on what appears to be happening at Claravale Farm in
So, does the CDC not like Jimmy John’s Sandwiches or just like Taco Bell’s Tacos more?
Or, is it hopefully something else?
First, lets be clear, confidential patient information should never be disclosed absent the patient agreeing to it. And, second, a report should not be issued if there is no outbreak linked to a product and/or manufacturer. However, once an outbreak is tied to a particular product or manufacturer, the
The Deadly 2011 Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak – My View Part 3
A. The outbreak’s “rogue elements”: the actions and inaction of others in the supply chain, and third parties, in bringing heavily contaminated fruit to market.
Jensen Farms’ inexcusable failures were its own, and certainly nobody will convince a jury that Jensen is blameless. The question of causation, however, and whose actions and inactions caused or
At 76 Shankstead EcoFarm – The Family Cow Tops Pennsylvania Raw Milk Outbreaks
According to press reports, raw milk produced at The Family Cow farm is the source of the most severe outbreak of sickness linked to raw milk in Pennsylvania in five years. The Pennsylvania Department of Health reported on Wednesday reported five more confirmed cases of campylobacteriosis, bringing the four-state total to 76.
The two previous
Perhaps the FSIS Inspectors just didn’t have the stomach for it?
So, really, who would even want to inspect Tripe, Feet and Uteri?
FSIS announced today that JAA Meat Products Corporation, a Maywood, Calif. establishment, is recalling an undetermined amount of meat and poultry products because they may have been produced without the benefit of federal inspection.
30-pound and 22-pound cases of the following products produced
E. coli O26 Linked to Jimmy Johns Sprouts in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Arkansas and Wisconsin
Jimmy Johns – It is time to stop with the sprouts.
The CDC just reports a total of 12 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli STEC O26 have been reported from 5 states.
The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Iowa (5), Missouri (3), Kansas (2), Arkansas
The Deadly 2011 Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak – My View Part 2
The FDA’s Investigation at Jensen Farms
On September 10, 2011, with Colorado state officials, the FDA conducted an inspection at Jensen Farms and collected multiple samples, both product and environmental, for laboratory testing. Of the 39 environmental swabs collected from within the Jensen Farms packing facility, 13 were confirmed positive for Listeria monocytogenes with PFGE