The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today that LJD Holdings, Inc., doing business as B and D Foods, a Boise, Idaho establishment, is recalling approximately 33,500 pounds of fully cooked meat and poultry products due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
A new case of E. coli in New Brunswick brought the total number of victims in Canada’s E. coli lettuce outbreak to 30. E. coli O157:H7 Illnesses by province are now as follows:
New Brunswick (7), Nova Scotia (10) and Ontario (13).
According to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, illness onsets began in late December
20 years ago today the State of Washington Department of Health sent out a press release announcing that an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak was occurring in the State and that it was likely linked to tainted, undercooked hamburgers served at local Jack in the Box restaurants. Eventually, the numbers of ill would be over 600,
According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, 1 additional case of E. coli O157:H7 illness was confirmed in Ontario as part of this outbreak. This brings the total number of cases to 29. These individuals became ill between late December and early January. New Brunswick reports six ill, Nova Scotia reports 10 ill and
Glenn’s Market and Catering, a Watertown, WI establishment, is recalling approximately 2,532 pounds of raw ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The following products are subject to recall:
• Various size packages of Glenn’s Market ground round
A couple of headlines caught my attention this morning.
The first, “China To Offer Up To $48,000 Reward For Food Safety Informers” might find some takers.
Apparently, China will offer up to 300,000 Yuan ($48,200) as a cash reward to people who report on others who violate food safety laws. Frequent Chinese media reports refer
The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) has become aware of several cases of diarrheal illness from northwest Missouri, possibly caused by Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC), including one confirmed as E. coli O103. These may be related to the consumption of locally-produced, raw (unpasteurized) dairy products.
In perhaps an unrelated action, the
Last Friday the Public Health Agency of Canada (CFIA) announced 26 E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Ontario linked to shredded lettuce distributed by FreshPoint Inc. served primarily at KFC and Taco Bell restaurants. FreshPoint Toronto has recalled shredded iceberg lettuce. The CFIA has traced the lettuce to California to
In December 2009 the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) uploaded results of molecular testing by Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) of an E. coli O157:H7 isolate cultured from a patient stool specimen to PulseNet, a national database of molecular subtyping or “fingerprinting” of foodborne disease causing bacteria. The Minnesota isolate was assigned PulseNet 2-enzyme pattern
The Public Health Agency of Canada’s announced this evening a foodborne illness investigation indicating that the most probable cause of the E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in the Maritimes and Ontario is shredded lettuce distributed by FreshPoint Inc. primarily to some KFC and KFC-Taco Bell restaurants. The products were not distributed to grocery stores.
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