It never ceases to amaze many clients of ours at Marler Clark how foods that seem so healthy can pose so much risk of foodborne disease. Lettuce and E. coli O157:H7??? Many victims were shocked, not to mention badly injured, when baby spinach was the cause of yet another outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 and other
Who’s Job is it Anyway?
Interesting survey, given the lethal risks that the food-consuming public faces. Kidney failure due to HUS, reactive arthritis, post-infectious IBS (pdf), sometimes even death . . . all outcomes that we at Marler Clark have seen way too many times in recent years due to foodpoisoning—something that is all-too-often passed off as a
UK Food Poisoning Terrorist Sentenced To Nine Years in Prison
After reading today’s BBC News article about convicted Gloucester, England chemist, Sahnoun Daifallah, who was sentenced to nine years in prison for spraying a disgusting and dangerous concoction of urine and feces on various food items in Gloucestershire supermarkets, I began to wonder…what if that happened here in the US? As it turns out, it already
Salmonella in Unpastuerized Orange Juice, 2005
I can’t proclaim to be a regular reader of the University of Chicago Journal "Clinical Infectious Diseases." An article in its April issue, however, was pointed out to me. That article concerned the investigation of the 2006 Dole Spinach E. coli O157:H7 outbreak as it related to cases in Wisconsin.
In that same issue is an article on a 2005
Report on 2006 Spinach E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak in Wisconsin, the Counted and the Not-Counted
This month’s issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases has an excellent article recounting the State of Wisconsin’s investigation into the 2006 E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Dole spinach. You can see the article here. For reasons that are still not entirely clear, Wisconsin was something of a "ground zero" for the outbreak with 49
The CDC’s Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) Shows Increase from 2007 to 2008
Surveillance Results
In 2007, a total of 17,883 laboratory-confirmed cases of infection in FoodNet surveillance areas were identified. The number of cases and incidence per 100,000 population were reported as follows: Salmonella (6,790; 14.92), Campylobacter (5,818; 12.79), Shigella (2,848; 6.26), Cryptosporidium (1,216; 2.67), STEC O157 (545; 1.20), STEC non-O157 (260; 0.57), Yersinia (163; 0.36), Listeria
Update on Pistachio Salmonella Product Recall
The FDA and the California Department of Public Health continue to investigate Salmonella contamination in pistachios and pistachio products. Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc., Terra Bella, Calif., is voluntarily expanding its recall of roasted pistachios to include all lots of roasted in-shell pistachios and roasted shelled pistachios that were produced from nuts harvested in
CDC to call for Overhaul of U.S. Food Safety System
From Bloomberg News:
Food safety in the U.S. is no longer improving, highlighting a need to re-evaluate the way an American meal makes its way from farm to table, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.
Rates of salmonella have shown the least improvement of several food-borne illnesses the agency tracks, according to
Peanut Corporation of America Salmonella Recall update
FDA Product Recall List
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