Entries tagged with “e-coli-outbreak/”

California Public Health Letter Explains Link Between Raw Milk & E. coli Outbreak

The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) issued a letter on January 17, 2012 to Mark McAfee, CEO of Organic Pastures Dairy in Fresno, California,...

Romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak and hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)

60 sick people certainly have a right to know who produced the lettuce that made them ill, particularly the families of those folks who developed hemolytic...

7 E. coli illnesses in Wake County, North Carolina

Media reports indicate that the North Carolina Division of Public Health is investigating an E.coli cluster in Wake County, North Carolina.  The cluster has sickened at...

Ohio ground beef E. coli outbreaks past

Todays announcement of an E. coli ground beef outbreak that has caused illnesses in Butler County, Ohio, might make some people wonder how often it...

Ohio E. coli outbreak prompts Tyson ground beef recall

Tyson Fresh Meats Inc., an Emporia, Kan. establishment, is recalling approximately 131,300 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7,...

Pride & Joy Creamery (WA) Recalls Raw Milk - E. coli

The Pride & Joy Creamery of Granger, Washington is recalling raw milk sold at numerous retail outlets due to potential contamination with E. coli.  While...

Another of the faces of Cowan's Gap: Madisyn Myers E. coli infection

The Cowans Gap E. coli O157:H7 outbreak this summer, thought to be associated with swimming at the lake, caused a lot of suffering.  At least...

Food Safety News feature: Meat Industry Told to Brace for 'Big Six' Listing

Maybe it was Bill Marler's $500,000 study on non-O157 STECs (finding non-O157 STEC contamination of retail ground beef in about 1% of samples), or maybe it was...

A history of litigating ground beef E. coli cases

Twenty years is a long time for a law firm to focus exclusively on litigating just food cases, but the food industry seems hell-bent on...

E. coli updates: more ground beef cases in Michigan; more Cowans Gap cases in PA

Michigan now counts 9 people from Lapeer, Genesee, Isabella, and Sanilac counties as victims of the ground beef E. coli O157:NM outbreak associated with beef...