The Indiana State Board of Animal Health’s Dairy Division warned consumers not to consume cheeses made from raw milk at the Grassy Meadows Dairy of Howe, Indiana, after testing conducted on the cheeses revealed high levels of staphylococcus aureus (staph) contamination in several samples of the cheeses that were produced before Wednesday.
The Board of
Seoul Shik Poom, a Hillside, New Jersey, company, recalled frozen, salted, and dried yellow croaker products for potential contamination with clostridium botulinum, the pathogen that causes botulism poisoning, late last week. Products recalled include:
BG1103 Salted Yellow Croaker (bag) 2.2 lbs
Customers who ate at Chuy’s Mesquite Broiler on the Rosedale Highway in Bakersfield, California, between January 4 and January 10 are being warned that they may have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus. The Kern County Health Department issued a press release stating that customers who ate at the restaurant between those dates
Safe Tables Our Priority (STOP), the nation’s advocacy group for victims of food-borne illness, this month is beginning the first national registry of food-poisoning survivors with long-term health problems — people willing to share their medical histories with scientists in hopes of boosting much-needed research.
STOP’s action comes as the Associated Press’s health and medical reporter writes
Michigan’s troubled New Era Canning Company was forced on Friday night to expand its botulism recall to all canned green beans and garbanzo beans distributed by the company nationwide over the last five years.
That could be a great deal of product. According to the company’s website:
This week’s food safety infosheet (pdf) from the International Food Safety Network focuses on what we learned this week – that ground beef is once again the source of a multi-state E. coli outbreak. At least five people in Wisconsin and one California resident became ill with E. coli infections after consuming meat produced
The outbreak investigation into the Listeria outbreak traced to the consumption of Whittier Farms milk products revealed contamination in several areas of the milk plant, according to reports from the Boston Herald and the Metro West Daily News.
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced today:
More than 100 environmental and milk samples were
In the third of its three-part series on US food safety, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published Health Day’s shopping list of US food safety solutions. This last part focuses on what’s to come for food safety — changes are needed in our food safety net, but what changes are needed, and how drastic do those
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and HealthDay continued their coverage on the US food supply today. This time, though, the focus wasn’t on foods produced in the US – it was on foods imported from countries such as China, Mexico, and Costa Rica. Imported produce such as green onions and cantaloupe have led to hepatitis A and
Public health officials in South Dakota have confirmed 22 cases of Salmonella Newport that is similar to a strain of Salmonella Newport that has been identified as causing illness among residents of four other states. An outbreak investigation is under way to determine whether victims of the outbreak ate the same food, but so far