According to news reports, Pork carnitas sold at Supermercado Los Corrales in Kenosha, Wisconsin during Mother’s Day weekend have officially been identified as the source of the Salmonella outbreak that sickened as many as 70 people, officials with the Department of Health Services (DHS), the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP), and local
Listeria Outbreak Over and FDA Releases Inspection Reports
Blue Bell is doing “what they always should have been doing and likely wish they had been doing,” Marler said. ” … If I had a dollar for every company that found religion after a self-imposed disaster, I could have retired years ago.”
The CDC reported this morning that the Blue Bell Outbreak and investigation
A Trip Down “Criminal Lane” – At Least For Food
In 1998 in what was the first criminal conviction in a large-scale food-poisoning outbreak, Odwalla Inc. pleaded guilty to violating Federal food safety laws and agreed to pay a $1.5 million fine for selling tainted apple juice that killed a 16-month-old girl and sickened 70 other people in several states in 1996. Odwalla, based in
Listeria Found in Blue Bell Ice Cream from Alabama Plant
Due to the quick thinking and tenacity of the wife of a man likely sickened by Listeria, another Blue Bell ice cream product has been linked. Here is the report.
Claravale Farm Raw Milk with Campylobacter – Again
Orange County has confirmed three cases of campylobacteriosis infection associated with consumption of raw goat milk distributed by Claravale Farm of San Benito County, California. All three patients are young children less than 5 years of age. One patient was hospitalized, and all of them are expected to recover.
The raw goat milk was distributed
Legal implications of zoonotic-disease outbreaks
Livestock exhibitions, petting zoos, county and state fairs, frankly any “farm experience,” are “as American as apple pie.”
Unfortunately, these same places have been the source of large outbreaks of zoonotic diseases over the last decades. And, just as unfortunately, despite the severe illnesses and a death attributed to these activities, little seems to be
E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Whatcom County, Washington Final Investigation Summary
The Whatcom County Health Department (WCHD) in Bellingham investigated an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli O157:H7 infections. The Washington State Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention assisted with the investigation.
Kenosha Salmonella Outbreak Hits 70
The Kenosha County Division of Health reports that as of Wednesday, June 3rd, Salmonella with a matching DNA fingerprint has been found in 35 patients. Divisions of Health official’s say 70 sick people have been identified during an investigation into Supermercado Los Corrales. Salmonella has been confirmed in a total of 35 patients.
Based on
Blue Bell Agrees to do What It Should Have Been Doing All Along
Blue Bell Creameries has signed a voluntary agreement with the Alabama Department of Public Health laying out a series of steps the company plans to take to control Listeria contamination before its products may legally be sold there again. The company has a plant in Sylacauga, AL, which is currently closed.
The Blue Bell agreement
A Blue Bell Listeria Timeline – 2010 to 2015
On February 12, 2015 the South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control, during routine product sampling at a South Carolina distribution center, found three strains of Listeria monocytogenes that would later be shown to be related to illnesses reported in Kansas and four other rare strains of Listeria monocytogenes in samples of Blue Bell