Yolo County fines unlicensed Anna’s Kitchen $106,997 after UC Davis students sickened
The Yolo County District Attorney’s Office reached a settlement with Xin Jiang, the owner of “Anna’s Kitchen,” a popular Chinese food delivery business that operated through WeChat and primarily marketed itself to Chinese foreign exchange students at UC Davis in a civil enforcement action. The Yolo County Environmental Health Division began investigating Mr. Jiang after
Marler Clark donates $100,000 to Dave Theno Scholarship at Stop Foodborne Illness
This fellowship was created in Dave’s honor after his sudden passing in 2017. It is a special opportunity for a young food scientist to work closely with Stop Foodborne Illness and learn from members who have experienced the consequences of failures in food safety firsthand. The Dave Theno Food Safety Fellowship is a partnership between
Needed – Passionate Advocate
I posted this on Food Safety News yesterday.
For those of you who read these fine pages of Food Safety News produced by Dan, Coral, Joe, Jonan, Cookson, and our many contributors on a daily basis for the last ten years, I try not – well, at least – not too often, to interject my
A Salmonella, Hepatitis A and E. coli weekend
E. coli: Seattle Public Health is investigating an outbreak of E. coli potentially associated with four Evergreens restaurants in Seattle. Thirteen people who became ill during November 10–15, 2019, ate dishes containing raw vegetables, including leafy greens, from Evergreens restaurants during November 5 to 11.
Genetic testing on isolates from the people identified the same
Roger, you have food poisoning? Do not call me
According to press reports – The trial of Roger Stone got off to an unusual start Tuesday as jury selection proceedings were punctuated by his exit from the court due to what he said was food poisoning.
The unique scene at a federal courthouse in Washington accentuated what had already been a chaotic pretrial process
There really is no wonder why I work on Holidays
Thanks to Barfblog for the heads up.
What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas
Restaurant Hepatitis A challenge – offer to vaccinate your employees and I will not sue you
In 2000, I wrote this:
In light of the recent, large-scale Hepatitis A exposure in the San Francisco Bay Area, food safety attorneys of the Seattle-based law firm of Marler Clark, are asking restaurants and food manufacturers to voluntarily vaccinate all workers against Hepatitis A. “In the last six months Hepatitis A exposures have been
Ground Beef with metal parts shipped to hospitals in Arizona, California, and Nevada
Ada Valley Gourmet Foods, Inc., an Ada, Mich. establishment, is recalling approximately 3,490 pounds of raw ground beef meatloaf products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically broken metal bits, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The frozen, premixed raw ground beef meatloaf was produced on May