Tomorrow we will file suit on behalf of a Cook County Resident who was infected by Clostridium perfringens in an outbreak that the Evanston City Health Department linked to Merle’s Smokehouse.
The Outbreak:
On Thursday, February 17, 2011 the City of Evanston Health Department was contacted by Evanston School District 65 regarding 30
Taylor Farms Pacific is voluntarily recalling broccoli items with a best if used by date of 2/7/11 to 3/7/11. Taylor Farms issued the recall after the Washington State Department of Health detected Listeria monocytogenes in a random sample of product. The recalled cases were distributed by Taylor Farms to 6 states, including; CA, AZ, NV, OR, UT, WA.
The Colorado House Judiciary committee has recommended that HB 11-1190 be “postponed indefinitely.” The bill, introduced by state Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg and state Sen. Cheri Jahn, would have changed Colorado law by absolving food retailers, as opposed to manufacturers, of liability in situations where the manufacturer isn’t subject to the jurisdiction of Colorado courts. The bill was postponed
A story out of South Australia gives one woman’s account of her battle with Salmonella. Her words help provide some understanding of the severity of even an uncomplicated bout with Salmonella, one that comes without any of the less common but frightening complications that can occur.
Ms. Norma Kent, of Toorak Gardens, Australia, was
2010 hit Illinois hard when it came to foodpoisoning outbreaks. (2011 just got worse with the announcement of the Merle’s BBQ clostridium perfringens outbreak)
Clostridium perfringens has caused an outbreak of food poisoning illnesses at Merle’s BBQ in Evanston, Illinois, sickening more than 30 people. Actually, the implicated meal was catered by Merle’s for the parent/teacher conferences at Haven Middle School on Feb. 16. “The outcome of the investigation revealed unsafe food handling and temperature storage at both Merle’s
New Market Poultry, a New Market, Va., establishment, is recalling approximately 3,339 pounds of ice-packed, whole chicken products that may be adulterated due to leaking cooler condensate, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The problem was identified Feb. 24, 2011 when the company discovered product under USDA retention
The American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Public Health Association (APHA) yesterday held a conference call to explain how global warming has “taken a toll on human health and will continue to cause food-borne illnesses, respiratory problems, and deaths unless policy changes are enacted.”
According to a report on the call, “The ‘evidence has
Four counties in Maine have joined many other states in proposing legislation intended to liberalize sales of raw milk or lighten the regulatory load on certain producers of other food products. Rich Hewitt at the Bangor Daily News wrote today:
Small, local farm operations in recent years have faced increasingly stringent state regulations that, farmers
Governments’ foodborne disease investigating agencies (CDC, FDA, USDA-FSIS, and the many state, local, and tribal units) are not infallible, but yesterday’s release in the New England Journal of Medicine of a collaborative study on the 2008 Salmonella Peppers outbreak is not nearly the indictment of the methods and conclusions of that outbreak that United Fresh