August 2012

Prompted by the threatened Microbiological Data Program (MDP), Burch Equipment and the FDA recalled 580 cases of Athena cantaloupe.  Now the recall has been expanded because once the FDA got to the Burch Equipment facility it found “unsanitary conditions.”

canp-725x543.jpgBurch Equipment LLC, North Carolina is expanding their recall that was initiated on July 28th, 2012.

AP reports that a New Jersey cheesemaker that made ricotta cheese from tainted milk has been fined $200,000 and put on four years of probation.

Lebanon Cheese Co. of Lebanon, N.J., and its president, Joseph G. Lotito, have been sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor shipping charge.

Lotito will pay a $10,000 fine…