July 2012

072312-map.jpgUPDATE Retail Sales List:

Hunter’s Shop ‘n Save 60 South Main Street Wolfeboro NH-New Hampshire

Will’s Shop N’ Save 22 North Street Dover-Foxcroft ME-Maine

Gray Shop N’ Save 35 Portland Road Gray ME-Maine

Hannaford Stores in MA, ME, NH, NY, VT

The CDC reports that a total of 33 persons infected with the outbreak strain

Hannaford Stores in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont named as one retail outlet linked to Cargill Meat Solutions recall of 29,339 pounds of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis. Twenty were sickened in 2011 by Hannaford ground beef tainted with Salmonella – See, Hannaford Hamburger Ground Beef

Cargill_colour_white_on_black_op_800x457.jpgCargill Beef, a business unit of Wichita-based Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, today announced an immediate Class I voluntary recall of approximately 29,339 pounds of 85-percent-lean, fresh, ground beef produced at the company’s Wyalusing, Penn., facility on May 25, 2012, due to possible contamination from Salmonella Enteritidis. Cargill is initiating this recall as a result of

ucm312993.jpgWellements LLC is issuing a voluntary recall of Baby Move™ Prune Concentrate liquid dietary supplement, because the supplier of one of the ingredients used in the product has indicated that the ingredient has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or

A total of 18 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O145 infection were identified in 9 states.

The number of ill persons identified in each state was as follows: Alabama (2), California (1), Florida (1), Georgia (5), Kentucky (1), Louisiana (5), Maryland (1), Tennessee (1), and Virginia (1).

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Four ill persons were hospitalized.

Romaine lettuce grown in California linked to Canadian outbreak too.

romaineleaves-406.jpgFood Safety News reports that the nine Californian E. coli O157:H7 infections connected to an April romaine lettuce outbreak in Canada all occurred in Orange County, a spokesman for the California Department of Public Health confirmed to Food Safety News Thursday.

The spokesman would not

Screen Shot 2012-07-19 at 10.56.44 AM.pngCDC Public Health Law News: Do you see yourself as working in the area of public health law?

Marler: I do. The civil justice system is the last, if not the only, bastion of Justice available to a person who becomes ill with a foodborne illness after eating contaminated food. I see my practice