The Centers for Disease Control & Prevention today added Nevada to the list of states with confirmed cases of Salmonella Saintpaul. It is the 34th state to be included in the tomato-related outbreak, which also includes the District of Columbia.
CDC is now counting 652 confirmed cases in the outbreak.
Since April, 613 persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul with the same genetic fingerprint have been identified in 33 states and the District of Columbia. These were identified because clinical laboratories in all states send Salmonella strains from ill persons to their State public
We are not sure if he is suited up and ready for some lab work, but Michael Leavitt, Secretary of Health
and Human Services, is in Mexico with the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) team that is looking for the source of the tomatoes carrying Salmonella Saintpaul.
Jalisco, Sinaloa and Coahuila are the only
According to the CDC, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, New York, Tennessee and Vermont with 61 ill persons were added to the prior list of Arizona (12 persons), California (2), Colorado (1), Connecticut (1), Idaho (2), Illinois (27), Indiana (7), Kansas (5), Michigan (2), New Mexico (39), Oklahoma (3), Oregon (3), Texas (56), Utah (1), Virginia (2),
Got Raw Milk? It ran on American Public Media. Pointed out one thing we didn’t know. Raw milk sells for $12 a gallon! Check it out here. It is fair and balanced.
Andrew Schneider, Senior Correspondent for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, ruined many a breakfast this morning—that’s if any of his Emerald City readers still eat bacon with their eggs.
You see Schneider put in his newspaper today what had already been on his Seattle P-I’s "Secret Ingredients" blog: that Tara Smith, an assistant professor at the University
The Food and Drug Administration has expanded its warning to consumers nationwide that a salmonellosis outbreak has been linked to consumption of certain raw, red tomatoes.
At this time, FDA is advising consumers to limit their consumption of tomatoes to the following types of tomatoes. The following types of tomatoes listed below are NOT likely
Raw Milk’s first cousin Raw Cheese is bringing death to San Diego in the form of a disease most Americans think no longer exists in the United States. Doug Irving, writing in the Orange County Register, yesterday reported:
Researchers have found a potentially deadly strain of tuberculosis infection
spreading through Latino communities in Southern
South Dakota is recalling milk for a potential health risk due to improper pasteurization.
We are wondering if the "dirty dairy" bill passes in California if states that discover unpasteurized milk could in the future just send it to the Golden State where it could be mixed into the "bacteria cocktails" for sale by retailers
Let’s call it what it is: the “dirty dairy” bill.
California has always been silly about its organic movement. Yet, it’s usually been serious about food safety and public health.
Raw milk is NOT pasteurized. According to the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, more than 1,000 people got sick from raw milk and raw
spreading through Latino communities in Southern