Stacy Finz of the San Francisco Chronicle weighed in on FSMA:
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed wide-ranging rules to prevent the spread of food-borne illnesses like the 2006 E. coli outbreak caused by contaminated California spinach that killed at least three people and sickened as many as 205.
My Take – Enormous
A few weeks ago, Mr. Chamberlain of Chamberlain Farms Indiana received a not too friendly letter from Mr. Bass of the FDA. In part the letter outlined again the results of the:
… epidemiological investigations, traceback investigations, and analytical results that linked cantaloupes grown and packed on your farm to a nationwide outbreak involving two
At least 120 people were suspected to have fallen ill in a Salmonella Virchow outbreak tied to the On the Border restaurant in Vancouver, Washington. That case count included 43 laboratory-confirmed patients and another 77 who exhibited symptoms and had a corresponding exposure history at On the Border. Thus far, the only Salmonella Virchow illnesses
261 Ill, 3 Deaths, 94 Hospitalizations in 24 States
CDC collaborated with public health officials in many states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium and Salmonella Newport infections linked to cantaloupe originating from Chamberlain Farms Produce, Inc. of Owensville, Indiana.
Public health investigators used DNA
127 infected with Salmonella Braenderup and 16 with Salmonella Worthington
On August 29, 2012 the CDC announced that local, state and federal agencies were conducting an investigation into the source of an apparent outbreak of Salmonella serotype Braenderup. Results of their collaborative efforts implicated mangoes as the likely source of the outbreak. By October 11,
Most states that allow for punitive damages provide that punitive damages may be awarded if defendant’s conduct is found to be so willful and wanton as to evidence conscious disregard for rights of others. Read the below and you be the judge.
The FDA, the CDC and state and local public health officials in September
Over the last month we reached confidential settlements for victims of one of the largest Salmonella outbreaks of 2012.
Local, state, the CDC and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) collaborated in an investigation of a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Bareilly and Salmonella Nchanga infections, which was ultimately shown to be associated with consumption
In 2012 the CDC collaborated with public health and regulatory officials in several states and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections (listeriosis). Joint investigation efforts indicated that ricotta salata cheese was the likely source.
Public health investigators used DNA “fingerprints” of Listeria obtained through diagnostic
Over the years we have investigated, and pieced together, several leafy green outbreaks that are never publicly announced despite being the cause of severe illness. Here is an outbreak from 2009 that should have prompted a multi-state public health warning and recall, but was instead quietly put under the “leafy green cone of silence” as
Late last week we reached yet another (actually two) settlement(s) in (a) raw milk outbreak(s) – one, an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak and the other a Campylobacter outbreak.
In 2012 the Missouri State Department of Health and Senior Services reported 14 confirmed cases of E. coli O157:H7 linked to raw milk. Two E. coli cases
