Food Poison Journal - Food poisoning outbreaks and litigation: surveillance and analysis

The FDA is warning consumers not to eat alfalfa sprouts or spicy sprouts from plastic bags labeled “Evergreen Produce” or “Evergreen Produce Inc.” The sprouts...

Sprouts are a food item that have been associated with outbreaks of foodborne disease on multiple occasions in the past decade, including a major Salmonella...

From February through May of 2009, the CDC counted 235 confirmed victims of a Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts.  Here is the distribution...

I recently received this comment to a recent post that I called ...: "You need to buy your seeds organically grown. This will almost ensure...

Here is a copy of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report from the CDC addressing the recent sprout outbreak.  We have been reporting on this...

There can only be two reasons why anybody in the country would be eating alfalfa sprouts right now:  one, they have not seen any of...

There is plenty of information out there on (1) what sprout and seed companies should be doing to reduce or eliminate the risk that they...

Press accounts, as well as those from the CDC, addressing the number of sick people in the ongoing Salmonella sprouts outbreak are a little misleading...

Sprouts have gotten a bad rap recently, and I suspect that the sprout market will have that much-maligned feeling for many months to come.  In...

The Salmonella-sprouts outbreak that we formerly reported was linked to illnesses in Michigan has grown.  Health officials from multiple states (Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South...