The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development today issued a consumer advisory for serrano peppers supplied by Bailey Farms Inc. of Oxford, North Carolina and distributed by Meijer stores in Michigan. The advisory was issued because the peppers have the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. No illnesses have been reported to date.
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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) in a 67-page report publicly released today entitled, “USDA Needs to Strengthen Its Approach to Protecting Human Health from Pathogens in Poultry Products,” GAO suggests that USDA take four specific actions:
A total of six persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Braenderup were reported from five states since January 1, 2014.
The number of ill persons identified in each state was as follows: Connecticut (1), Iowa (1), New Mexico (1), Tennessee (1), and Texas (2).
One ill person was hospitalized. No deaths were reported.
AMS Health Sciences is recalling 2014 bottles of Saba Shark Cartilage Complex due to possible contamination of Salmonella.
A single lot of Saba Shark Cartilage Complex is the subject of this public announcement and recall as a result of a sample from one bottle that tested positive for Salmonella. This product is packaged in black
More than 400 people attending a church conference could have been exposed to Salmonella.
According to press reports, the Salmonella outbreak in Gaston County, North Carolina has already made 55 people sick, but health officials say that number could grow.
The 400 plus people who attended a conference at Living Word Tabernacle Church the first
Coral Beach reports that fresh-cut roma tomatoes grown in Mexico and distributed to Costco by Boskovich Farms Inc. may have been contaminated with salmonella and are part of a voluntary recall Expo Fresh LLC initiated in September.
Boskovich was not named in the Sept. 12 recall notice on the Food and Drug Administration’s website. However,
The Center for Science in the Public Interest today asked the U.S. Department of Agriculture to declare four antibiotic-resistant strains of Salmonella as adulterants under federal law. In a petition filed with the agency CSPI says antibiotic-resistant strains on meat and poultry were linked to at least 2,358 illnesses, 424 hospitalizations, and eight deaths—facts that
Hillsdale Daily News reports that the Salmonella outbreak which struck the Reading Summer Festival Days the weekend of July 31 was part of an eight-state outbreak from contaminated berries or melons, according to health officer Steve Todd of the Branch-Hillsdale-St. Joseph Counties Community Health Agency (CHA).
Todd said the outbreak now has 12 lab-confirmed cases
Zach Murdock reports that the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control is investigating about nine cases of Salmonella poisoning in Beaufort County, including one illness matched to a national cluster of salmonella, according to a state spokeswoman.
The department has received reports of eight people with gastrointestinal symptoms, and laboratory testing has confirmed several
A total of 344 person infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Infantis, Salmonella Newport, or Salmonella Hadar have been reported from 42 states and Puerto Rico. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (9), Arizona (3), Arkansas (3), California (3), Colorado (5), Connecticut (2), Florida (1), Georgia (17),
