Miami Couple Sentenced for Selling Cheese Contaminated with Bacteria
Earlier this year, a Miami couple and their company, Naver Trading Corp., were facing federal charges of importing cheese and other dairy products into the...
Salmonella and Campylobacter Found on Raw Chicken Sold at Farmers' Markets
Esther French, Mattea Kramer and Maggie Clark, fellows with News21, a national university reporting project at the University of Maryland, recently conducted an investigation into...
CDC Reports That Rates of Salmonella Infection Have Seen No Progress in the Past 15 Years
“Foodborne infections can be prevented,” according to the Vital Signs report in the most recent issue of Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), a series...
Food Safety and Modernization Act Provides Whistleblower Protection
An important, but little known, component to the newly enacted Food Safety and Modernization Act provides whistleblower protection for workers at Food and Drug Administration...
Two Clearview High School Students Confirmed with Salmonella
As previously reported on this site, roughly 100 students from Clearview High School in Lorain, Ohio, were ill during the week of October 3. There...
Salmonella Outbreak in Ohio? Link to High School?
Health officials in northern Ohio are investigating whether there is a link between the recent confirmation of three Salmonella infections in Lorain County and a...
Feed Being Eyed As Likely Source for Salmonella in Egg Outbreak
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that feed given to chickens at both Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg could be the...
Salmonella Egg Outbreak Update: Which States?
As per usual, a very informative post from Phyllis Entis at efoodalert.com providing an update on the nationwide Salmonella enteritidis outbreak on a state by...
Hillandale and Wright County Egg: The Connection Grows
The link between Hillandale and Wright County Egg was made clearer this morning by Mary Clare Jalonick of the Associated Press who reported that both...
Wright County Egg Owner Has Long History of Violations
Against a backdrop of a recall of 380 million eggs and thousands of Salmonella illnesses nationwide, numerous commentators have been pointing out the long history...
