Look what’s in the Federal Register – https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/11/18/2022-25140/expansion-of-fsis-shiga-toxin-producing-escherichia-coli-stec-testing-to-additional-raw-beef
Not sure why this is not in a press release – but as my friends “down under”say: “Good on ya mate.”
Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA.
Notice.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is announcing that on February 1, 2023, the Agency
Why no recall? Why no manufacturer named? How many sickened?
The FDA has identified a Hepatitis A outbreak linked to strawberries and a Salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter. However, two Listeria outbreaks and an E. coli outbreak links remain elusive. And, the dry cereal outbreak, well, that one is a mystery.
Helena Bottemiller Evich’s well done piece in Politico “The FDA’s Food Failure,” that hit the internet very early this morning, is a stunning, but not surprising, indictment of our government’s food safety failures that transcends political parties and administrations. Note, for someone who has been directly involved in food safety for the last almost 30
As of November 12, 2021, 892 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Oranienburg have been reported from 38 states and Puerto Rico. Illnesses started on dates ranging from May 31, 2021, to October 25, 2021.
Sick people range in age from less than 1 year to 101 years, with a
FDA has been great at posting investigations. The 2022 E. coli outbreak is over, but not yet identified. At least 10 have been sickened by packaged salads. The two Listeria outbreaks are interesting due in part to the length of time the same WGS of Listeria was sickening people during both outbreaks. The Salmonella
Rest in Peace Larry King.
I wrote in my blog that in March 2009 I finally made it to the Blakely, Georgia Peanut Corporation of America plant. Despite being scrubbed a bit in the last few months after the announcement of the outbreak, we still found mice and cockroaches in the plant with several spots
In 2015, we were involved in litigation with Chipotle over Norovirus cases in Massachusetts and California and a Salmonella outbreak in Minnesota. And, folks recall both E. coli outbreaks – O26 and O157 as well, which we also prosecuted.
Then the Justice Departments press release – its headlines ALL CAPS – landed in my inbox.
Not to be confused with the Seven Deadly Sins: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth, although, perhaps some of these outbreaks were sinful. I had the honor to represent many of the ill and the families of those who died.
Jack-in-the- Box E. coli Outbreak – 1992 – 1993
708 ill, 171 hospitalized
