The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert out of an abundance of caution due to concerns about contamination with Cyclospora. The beef, pork and poultry salad and wrap products were distributed by Caito Foods LLC, an Indianapolis, Ind. establishment.
The beef, pork and poultry
As of June 27, 2018, the CDC reported 210 people infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 were reported from 36 states. Canada reported 8 sickened.
Illnesses started on dates ranging from March 13, 2018 to June 6, 2018. Ill people ranged in age from 1 to 88 years, with a median age
Here is what the FDA has told the public thus far about the source of the 2018 Yuma Romaine Lettuce Outbreak that has sickened over 200 in the US and Canada and killed 5 in the US:
Eventually, at least for the 105 people who have hired us, we will fill in all the blanks.
I am off to IAFP in the morning to Salt Lake City to participate on this panel discussion on Tuesday AM. I look forward to a reasoned and lively discussion.
Thanks to my great clients for being willing to tell their stories. It put what the FDA does – and does not do – in context.
Victims blame FDA for food-recall failures
‘If I had heard about the problem even one week earlier … life today would be very different.’
Peter Ebb
1,053 cases have been reported from 01 January 2017 to 20 June 2018. The number of new cases reported each week has decreased since the implicated products were recalled on 04 March 2018 (Figure 1). Neonates ≤28 days of age are the most affected age group, followed by adults aged 15 – 49 years of
The CDC reports today that 210 people in 36 states have become ill with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7. These people reported becoming ill in the time period of March 13, 2018 to June 6, 2018. There have been 96 hospitalizations and five deaths. There are cases in 36 states: Alabama (3) Alaska
Given the size of the outbreak, at least 218 in the US and Canada, and the number of unnamed farms and fields implicated, I am not surprised that the source of the outbreak was broad environmental contamination – like water. As a study that was performed in the Yuma growing area from 2007-2009 said: “Despite
Canada called the imported romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak over after eight people were sickened. It is expected that the CDC will update the US part of the outbreak in the morning. The numbers of ill are likely to be far above 200 and the number of deaths may likely rise as well. Those with
The Mexican federal consumer protection agency has issued a warning about the possible presence of salmonella in boxes of Kellogg’s Honey Smacks cereal.
The warning from the Federal Consumer Protection Agency in Mexico (Profeco)
comes almost a week after the first reports of the contaminated cereal, manufactured and packaged in the United States, began to
