Vienna Beef Ltd., a Chicago, Ill. establishment, is recalling approximately 2,030 pounds of beef frank links products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically metal, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The beef frank links items were produced on May 2, 2019. The following products are subject
As I hit 62 a few days ago, there has been an increase in the number of people asking me the “retirement” question. After 31 years – 26 doing what I do now – I get the question. But, when I wake up to emails like this, why would I ever think about retiring:
Just
Had a great opportunity to get on the line with some of my favorite people with one of the very best online sources of everything food. Here is the interview:
From meat and eggs to leafy greens, four experts weigh in on the safety of the U.S. food supply over the past decade and lay
Now that is a mouthful of some pathogens.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) today recommended that consumers avoid eating raw oysters harvested from Estero El Cardon in Baja California Sur, Mexico, because they are linked to an outbreak of gastrointestinal illnesses in California.
In California, 12 individuals have reported illness in February, March,
This year marks the 25th anniversary of a massive E. coli outbreak, which hit 73 Jack in the Box restaurants in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and California; sickened 700 people; sent 171 to the hospital; and killed four. The anniversary is a somber but noteworthy milestone for accomplished food safety attorney Bill Marler ’87.
“It’s the
Bill Marler, food safety advocate and foodborne attorney since 1993, whose Seattle law firm, Marler Clark, has been contacted by victims of the recent E. coli O103 ground meat outbreak, and recent Salmonella outbreaks linked cut fruit and ground tuna, called today on those companies responsible to pay the medical bills and lost
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Foodborne illness is a big problem. Wash those chicken breasts, and you’re likely to spread Salmonella to your countertops, kitchen towels, and other foods nearby. Even salad greens can become biohazards when toxic
Mondelēz Global LLC announced today a limited voluntary recall in the United States of certain Chewy Chips Ahoy 13oz cookies. This voluntary recall is being conducted because of the potential for certain product to contain an unexpected solidified ingredient. Some reports of potential adverse health effects have been received.
Mondelez spokesman Tom Armitage later clarified
At Least 12 U.S. Deaths Are Associated with ‘Tea’ Made with Poppy Seeds or Pods
The Center for Science in the Public Interest today is calling on the Food and Drug Administration and the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on the sale of contaminated poppy seeds and seed pods in the wake of at
The FDA today published its “Investigation Summary: Factors Potentially Contributing to the Contamination of Romaine Lettuce Implicated in the Fall 2018 Multi-State Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7.”
First, a hat tip to the FDA investigators for getting at the report critically fast and during the governmental shutdown. It is prompt, science based, investigations that will
