Action represents another significant food safety measure under the Obama Administration
WASHINGTON, May 31, 2012 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) next week will begin instituting a zero-tolerance policy for six additional strains of E. coli that are responsible for human illness. Beginning Monday, FSIS will routinely test
As of May 25, 2012, a total of 93 persons infected with outbreak strains of Salmonella Infantis, Salmonella Newport, and Salmonella Lille have been reported from 23 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (3), Georgia (3), Illinois (1), Indiana (2), Kentucky (4), Louisiana (1), Massachusetts (1), Maryland
When Smiling Hara Tempeh Managing Executive Chad Oliphant began buying starter culture used to make the popular bean product tempeh from Maryland-based Tempeh Online, he surely did not expect it to be contaminated with Salmonella (or anything else, for that matter). And, why should he? Like most people in his position, I imagine Mr. Oliphant
Listeria monocytegenes is a bacteria that does two things very well: firmly takes root in certain environments conducive to its growth, and finds people who can least afford to come into contact with it. Listeria has a mortality rate around 20%. As a case in point, fully 99% of the 146 confirmed cases of Listeria
Hepatitis A is a fairly rare disease, but it’s popping up all over the country in recent weeks and months. The Tennessean reports:
Three students from Greenbrier High School have been infected with the hepatitis A virus in recent weeks, according to the Tennessee Department of Health.
State health officials are offering free vaccines
North Carolina has been the site of several Salmonella outbreaks in recent months. In an outbreak that originally flew under the radar, leaving a lot of people wondering what had made them so ill, the Toast of Dilworth (likely the eggs benedict specifically) sickened dozens in late March with Salmonella enteritidis. Two lawsuits have been
According to AP, Indonesianfoodmart.com announced the recall of Tempeh Starter Yeast and Super Starter Yeast on today. The products were distributed nationwide and abroad. The product was imported from Indonesia. It comes in sealed, clear, plastic packages marked with a small computer-printed label. The sizes sold are 30gm, 50gm, 250gm, and 1,000gm. The company said
Casey Blake of the Asheville Citizen Times reported today that the number of reported cases in a three-month Buncombe-based – Tempeh caused – Salmonella Paratyphi B outbreak is still climbing. The total number of reported cases linked to the outbreak was 83 as of Friday afternoon, 62 of which involved residents of Buncombe County.
According to the California Department of Food and Agriculture, raw milk products produced by Organic Pastures of Fresno County have been released from a statewide quarantine that began May 10. CDFA imposed the quarantine in response to the detection of campylobacter bacteria, and notification from the California Department of Public Health of reported campylobacter
Dry dog food manufactured in Diamond Pet Foods’ Gaston, South Carolina production plant has been linked to at least 15 cases of Salmonella Infantis infections in 9 states, according to a May 11, 2012 report from CDC. Confirmed outbreak cases have been documented in Alabama (1), Connecticut (1), Michigan (1), Missouri (3), North Carolina