Less than a year after it was named the source of an E. coli outbreak that sickened 10 people, Coco Loco at A&M, a Mexican restaurant in College Station, TX, has made it into the news again for a bad health inspection report.
Regional publication The Eagle listed Coco Loco at A&M among recent area
Nearly 24,000 sickened in two outbreaks over two years?
Yesterday the CDC reported on the ongoing Foster Farms Salmonella chicken outbreak. Now a total of 481 individuals infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 25 states and Puerto Rico. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as
According to the CDC today the investigation continues into Salmonella Heidelberg infections likely related to Foster Farms chicken.
As of February 28, 2014, a total of 481 persons infected with seven outbreak strains of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 25 states and Puerto Rico, since March 1, 2013. 38% of ill persons have been
The Hilton Head Island Packet reports that nearly 300 people might have been exposed to hepatitis A at Hudson’s Seafood House on the Docks restaurant February 15th, but so far no cases stemming from the exposure have been confirmed. An employee at Hudson’s Seafood House on the Docks tested positive for hepatitis A on last
Tony Leys from the Des Moines Register got a chance to meet one of my heroes yesterday – Mary McGonigle-Martin, who he described as “a California mother who almost lost her son to a bacterial infection urged Iowa lawmakers Monday not to legalize the sale of unpasteurized milk.” Mary got a trip to lovely Des
The Washington Post’s reporters, Kimberly Kindy and Brady Dennis jumped into FSIS’s “what’s an adulterant” thicket with their story posted yesterday “Salmonella outbreaks expose weakness in USDA oversight.” The article is worth the read.
Regarding FSIS allowing the meat industry – chicken, beef, etc., to ship us all food tainted with Salmonella, what happened to
Gabrielle Meunier is a resident of South Burlington, whose 7-year-old son became ill from a Salmonella infection in 2008. She is in Washington DC this week to meet with members of the Vermont delegation about the Food Safety Modernization Act. She spoke with Vermont Edition about the meeting, and her son’s experience with a food
Food Safety News reports, that a federal judge on Tuesday sentenced the two owners of the cantaloupe farm tied to a deadly Listeria outbreak in 2011 to five years probation, six months home detention, and $150,000 each in restitution fees to victims.
Brothers Eric and Ryan Jensen owned Jensen Farms in Colorado, where they
Nine plaintiffs who claim they fell ill with Salmonella infections after eating contaminated food purchased from a Houston-area Iguana Joe’s were added to a lawsuit against the restaurant late last week.
The original lawsuit was filed last July by Seattle-based Marler Clark and Houston attorney John Ramsey on behalf of a couple who allege their
After two Salmonella outbreaks (sickened over 500) linked to its plants that caused no shutdown, and an infestation of cockroaches (sickening zero) that caused a shutdown, according to today’s Foster Farms press release, Foster Farms resumed operations at its Livingston, Calif., poultry plant this morning, Wednesday, Jan. 22. All plant employees have been called back
