From AP. Stunning, just stunning. I can not keep up with the FDA recall list. Nancy Luna from the OC Register has created her own recall database. So far, the Food and Drug Administration has listed 181 products recalled nationwide because they contain peanuts or peanut paste linked to a salmonella outbreak traced
Recall List Expanding – The Press Releases are Flying – Are the Products Leaving the Shelves?
More products with Peanut Butter in them are being recalled. Frankly, it is hard to keep up on the company press releases – The FDA is sure "doing a heck of a job" of keeping them in one place – see Link. efoodalert is doing an even better job at keeping up (full time job)
When is a Recall not a Recall? When you still can buy it!
On January 16 Kellogg Company Announced the Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Austin® and Keebler® Branded Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers and Select Snack-Size Packs of Famous Amos® And Keebler® Soft Batch Peanut Butter Cookies Because of Possible Health Risk. Guess what I bought all of at the gas station today?
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Based on available information, CDC and
Update – Again – on the Salmonella Peanut Butter Crash of 2009 – Product Not to Eat and Recalled
Yesterday, "[t]he FDA urged consumers on Saturday to avoid eating peanut butter and products that contain it until they can determine the scope of an outbreak of Salmonella food poisoning that may have contributed to six deaths." Also, on the FDA website it lists products that have been recalled by companies:
* South Bend Chocolate
Marler Clark: FDA Must Widen Salmonella Peanut Butter Recall
I am calling on the FDA to request recalls of foods containing peanut butter products manufactured in the Peanut Corporation of America’s (PCA) Blakely, GA plant. Tests have shown that product produced in the facility carries the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium, which has sickened at least 453 people in 43 states and Canada and
FSIS Issues Another Public Health Alert for Ground Beef Products Due To Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination – UPDATE
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for approximately 14,800 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, that were produced by Texas American Food Service Corporation, a Fort Worth, Texas, establishment doing business as American Fresh Foods. This public
Salmonella fear prompts recall of basil shipped to California, Texas and Illinois
AP reported that 5,500 pounds of "Green Paradise" brand basil has been recalled. The basil was shipped in sets of 12 one-pound boxes marked with lot No. 1219. The basil grown in Mexico and sold in the United States has been recalled because of fears it may be infected with Salmonella. The basil was
One way to avoid meat recalls: Wait for test results
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I read the headline of Julie Schmit’s article in USA TODAY and had the overwhelming desire to say “duhh!” as my 15-year-old often says of me to me. I then read further:
The federal government may move to keep meat off the market until its tests confirm the meat doesn’t have harmful bacteria, a step
Cargill, getting reacquainted with the Enemy
As the number of Cargill-related E. coli recalls has grown, we have pulled a few of our past E. coli battles with Cargill and its many subsidiaries. We have spent a bit of time over the years with Cargill and its lawyers.
A bit more history about Cargill – In 1995 Cargill announced the “End of E. coli” in the pages of the New York Times. Now, 12 years later it has recalled nearly 2,000,000 pounds of hamburger (that is nearly enough to give every New Yorker a quarter pounder) in October and November recalls. Jane Genova, fellow blog addict, posted twice on what "Big Beef" needs to do to fix the problem and the PR. This post also warranted a post by a top-shelf Florida Law Blogger – Labovick – entitled "Cargill-beef-recall-is-a-walk-down-memory-lane"
Cargill Meat Solutions is the umbrella organization of Cargill’s beef, pork and turkey businesses. A key part of Cargill Meat Solutions was Excel Corporation, which began business nearly 70 years ago and grew from a Midwestern beef company to also include pork, processed meats, case ready meats and food distribution centers. Follow the Timeline:
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Cargill recalls over 1 million pounds of ground beef – again
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For some reason I could not sleep and woke-up quite early this morning to this in my in box – Cargill Meat Solutions Recalls Ground Beef Action due to possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination. I then saw the following press release from Cargill Meat Solutions [YOU MUST WONDER WHY THEY SEND OUT THE PRESS RELEASE ON A SATURDAY MORNING – PERHAPS NO ONE WILL NOTICE?]:
Cargill s voluntarily recalling approximately 1,084,384 pounds of ground beef produced at its Wyalusing, Pa., Cargill Regional Beef facility because of the possible presence of E. coli O157:H7. The ground beef products subject to recall were produced at the Wyalusing plant between Oct. 8 and 11, 2007, and were distributed to retailers nationwide. Cargill learned of the possibility of contamination after the U.S. Department of Agriculture returned [WHEN WAS IT RETURNED] a confirmed positive on a sample of product produced Oct. 8, 2007. Each package or label bears the establishment number “Est. 9400” inside the USDA mark of inspection. As the use/freeze-by dates for products subject to this recall have expired, consumers are urged to look in their freezers for these products and return or discard them if found. In addition to the above listed products, there are various weights and varieties of ground beef, ground chuck, and ground sirloin product that were distributed for further processing and repackaging and will not bear the same establishment number on the package [MEANS – WE HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THE REST OF THIS STUFF IS].
This from the Company that wants to sell you "Fake Red Meat." Yesterday I was retained by two more families of two additional HUS victims of the earlier Cargill 1 million pound recall. Products subject to this new recall are:
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Also, remember Cargill’s 1 million pound recall from last month? In that one Cargill products were sold at retail establishments, including Sam’s Club, and to restaurants and other institutions throughout the United States. Since the investigation into that recall began in Minnesota, E. coli illnesses tied to Cargill ground beef products have been identified in Minnesota (5), Wisconsin (5), North Carolina (2) and Tennessee (3). I think we can correctly assume that the numbers of ill people will continue to climb both from last months recall and from this months – another "million pound month."Continue Reading Cargill recalls over 1 million pounds of ground beef – again