CDC collaborated with public health officials in several states and with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections (listeriosis). Joint investigation efforts indicated that commercially produced, prepackaged caramel apples made from Bidart Bros. apples were the likely source of this outbreak.
Public health investigators used the PulseNet
More on the risks of raw milk sales.
Bill Marler made history with the horrendous 1993 Jack in the Box food poisoning outbreak. Marler represented the most seriously ill child, Brianne Kiner. Four children died and hundreds were sickened by under-cooked E. coli:O157 tainted hamburgers. It was the beginning of a long, battle to not only represent victims, but also advocate for tougher food safety laws.
It has been a busy week in the press:
The New Yorker: A Bug in the System
Why last night’s chicken made you sick.
BY WIL S. HYLTON: February 2, 2015
A lawyer is leading the fight to keep contaminated food off the supermarket shelf.
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Description: Last summer’s Carlton Complex Fire burned 250,000 acres. EarthFix correspondent Courtney Flatt shows how ecologists are working to prevent another devastating fire. Producer Terry Murphy profiles local attorney Bill Marler’s 20-year crusade to make food safer. And producer Michael Werner takes us
The Obama Administration is proposing a radical overhaul of the country’s food safety operations. Instead of having several bodies like the FDA, USDA, and FSIS, President Obama is proposing a single government agency that would oversee all food safety and inspection operations.
Wil S. Hylton is the author of a terrifying New Yorker article about
My take from the LA TIMES:
“Although I applaud that FSIS is setting standards for chicken parts, and doing product testing for salmonella and campylobacter, 15% is too high,” Seattle-based food-safety attorney Bill Marler told The Times.
“Like E. coli O157:H7, salmonella and campylobacter should be zero tolerance. If you want to save people
I have a hard time figuring out what sign would make the best T-shirt.
Sometimes Foodborne Illness Outbreaks become very public, sometimes they go on behind the scenes with only public health officials, owners of the business, and of course the people sickened by eating the food, knowing the facts. And, then sometimes one of those sickened people retains me (Thanks to Trevor Quirk for bringing me in) and
And, we seem so worried about imports?
Malaysia News reports that the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry has restricted the entry of Gala and Granny Smith apples from the United States into Malaysia, as the products have been suspected to be tainted with Listeria bacteria.
Its minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the
The Outbreak: On December 18, 2014, the Minnesota Department of Health reported four Listeria monocytogenes illnesses. The Minnesota cases purchased caramel apples from Cub Foods, Kwik Trip, and Mike’s Discount Foods, which carried Carnival brand and Kitchen Cravings brand caramel apples. These apples were produced by H. Brooks and supplied indirectly by Bidart Brothers.
On
