Hannaford Supermarkets and Superior Nuts & Candy of Chicago, Ill., announced Thursday the recall of pine nuts due to its potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.
The 4-ounce packages of pines nuts are sold in store produce departments with a clearly packaged front and tan-colored label on the back. The back label lists “Pine Nuts”
$7,000,000 fine, three months in jail each and a year probation each.
Bill Marler, an acclaimed food safety lawyer whose firm represented a group of more than 100 people who were sickened in the salmonella outbreak, said before the sentence was announced that he “wouldn’t be surprised” if the DeCosters didn’t get any jail time.
AP reports today that:
Two former egg industry executives received jail sentences Monday for their roles in a major 2010 salmonella outbreak, representing the latest high-profile victory for government officials hoping to emphasize food safety.
The three-month sentences handed down in federal court are noteworthy because only a handful of cases of corporate misconduct end
Monday, Austin “Jack” DeCoster and his son, Peter DeCoster, will both face possible jail sentences stemming from a Salmonella outbreak caused by their Iowa egg farms in 2010. The Salmonella outbreak ran from May 1 to Nov. 30, 2010, and prompted the recall of more than a half-billion shell eggs, the largest recall of its
Andrea Lutz, at KTVB reports that the Central District Health Department temporarily shut the Vietnamese restaurant Pho Tam On Orchard Street after inspectors found four health code violations, two of which were repeat violations. And, after the health department found five reported cases of Salmonella between February and mid-March.
Pho Tam now has 15 days
In a week, Austin “Jack” DeCoster and his son, Peter DeCoster, will both face possible jail sentences stemming from a Salmonella outbreak caused by their Iowa egg farms in 2010.
The Salmonella outbreak ran from May 1 to Nov. 30, 2010, and prompted the recall of more than a half-billion shell eggs, the largest recall
Noel Lyn Smith of the Farmington Daily Times reports that Navajo Pride is recalling its bleached, all-purpose flour because of possible Salmonella contamination.
The recalled flour is marked with lot No. 075B110064 and is stamped with an expiration date of March 16, 2016, according to a company press release issued on Thursday. The flour comes
The Pinal County Public Health Services District (PCPHSD) took action today to temporarily suspend the food establishment permit of the Windmill Winery in Florence.
The temporary suspension is being conducted while officials with PCPHSD conduct an investigation into a Salmonella outbreak that is linked to a wedding that took place at the facility on March
A recent Salmonella Schwarzengrund outbreak associated with the Boise, Idaho Pho Tam restaurant has sickened at least five people.
Food Safety News reports: “We’ve gone in and inspected and looked at appropriate food safety controls,” said Christine Myron, public information officer for the Central District Health Department in Boise. “They’ve not determined a definite source
Nutiva, an Organic Superfoods company, has initiated a voluntary product recall of the following O’Coconut™ products after being notified by supplier that samples of a raw material in this product have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. “We are choosing to voluntarily recall three of our O’Coconut items as a precautionary measure to provide
