The Shelby Star reports that least 28 people have reported getting sick after eating at the Sandy Plains Baptist Church barbecue fundraiser Sept. 7, according to the Cleveland County Health Department. The health department first reported nine illnesses Tuesday.
Among the updated case number, 18 are in Cleveland County and 10 in Rutherford County. Ten
According to WCNC nine cases of Salmonella have been confirmed following an outbreak at a church barbeque in Shelby, says the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
The Sandy Plains Baptist Church held the barbeque fundraiser on Saturday. As of Tuesday, five of the patients have been hospitalized.
The Cleveland County and Rutherford
UK’s Food Standards Agency has had a busy week – and it is only Thursday.
The FSA reported today that Sainsbury’s is recalling all of its bagged watercress and salads containing watercress as a precautionary measure, due to a possible association with an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 that has made 15 people ill. The
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is announcing a voluntary recall of Joey’s Jerky brand Chicken Jerky due to possible salmonella risk.
A total of 21 people in Merrimack and Hillsborough Counties have been identified with the same strain of the illness, but no deaths have occurred. Joey’s Jerky is produced
According to health inspection records published by the Florida Department of Business Professional Regulation, Big Tim’s BBQ, located at 530 S 34th St. in St. Petersburg, was closed, with an order for operations to stop until violations were corrected on August 21. At that time, the restaurant was cited for four high priority violations, including
Not to be confused with the Spice Girls.
New York Times writer Gardiner Harris wrote last week about the risks of Salmonella in imported spices. According to Gardiner:
The United States Food and Drug Administration will soon release a comprehensive analysis that pinpoints imported spices, found in just about every kitchen in the Western world
A total of 125 persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Infantis, Salmonella Lille, Salmonella Newport, or Salmonella Mbandaka have been reported from 26 states.
The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (3), Arizona (3), California (1), Colorado (2), Connecticut (3), Delaware (1), Georgia (1), Illinois (4), Indiana
My kids always bugged me to get one – now I know why I kept saying no.
Alejandra Matos of the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that at least 81 people fell ill from suspected Salmonella poisoning after eating guinea pig meat and other foods from a vendor at a Minneapolis street festival earlier this month,
Cumberland County and North Carolina state public health investigators have determined that the All American Grill within the Holiday Inn Bordeaux was the source of a Salmonella outbreak in May that resulted in 100 identified cases of illness.
According to the report by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services, public health officials could
According to the Boston Globe’s Deborah Kotz, twelve cases of Salmonella were reported in June and early July among patrons of Clover’s various locations in Boston, Cambridge, and Brookline. That prompted an inspection on July 12 that concluded:
This facility is closed, the food trucks are out of service; not food production from this facility
