Close to 50 People on Illinois State Football Team Sickened by Suspected Foodborne Illness
At least 35 players and several coaches from the Illinois State football team became ill with apparent food poisoning. The illnesses caused many of the...
Listeria Risk: CDC Urges At-Risk Populations to Heat Deli Meats to at Least 165 Degrees
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has been pushing for over a decade to get out the message on the risk to at risk-populations of...
FSIS Releases Draft Compliance Guide to Help Improve the Safety of Ready-to-Eat Products
Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture´s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a press release announcing that it has posted a set of draft...
CDC Reports Decline in Foodborne Illness
How about a little good news for a change? The CDC announced today, in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the results of a study indicating...
Transparency in food recalls: important on both sides of the Atlantic
In her blog at eFoodAlert.com, Phyllis Entis today discussed France's approach, or lack thereof, to letting the food-consuming public know about foodborne threats to their...
Marler Clark Creating Searchable Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database
Over at the Des Moines Register, Phil Brasher has written a great piece on Marler Clark's efforts to create a searchable foodborne illness outbreak database....
Spices: emerging threat or clear and present danger?
Over the last several years, there have been multiple outbreaks linked to, and recalls of, various kinds of spices. From white pepper, to red pepper,...
Tylenol recall expands
So how does the principle of strict liability--i.e. liability without regard to fault--which is applicable in foodborne illness cases, apply to bottles of Tylenol that...
Delays reported in securing recalled foods from our public schools
The USA Today reported today that "Federal agencies that supply food for 31 million schoolchildren [Food and Nutrition Service] fail to ensure that tainted products are...
The Ugly Side of Foodborne Illness
I haven't been in half as many living rooms as the partners at Marler Clark have, but I've certainly seen a lot of suffering over...
