At least when Nestle USA announced that it was recalling all its Toll House cookie products, the public pretty much knew which retailers were involved. Every retail grocery in the country provides generous space for Nestle products.
Nestle is currently at the center of the largest E. coli recall and largest E. coli outbreak in the
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Sometime in the early hours of June 28, JBS Swift Beef Company expanded the approximately 40,000 pounds of “assorted beef primals” recalled on June 24 to include another approximately 380,000 pounds of “assorted beef primals" due to E. coli O157:H7 contamination.
There are a lot of questions. So, are the illnesses in Arizona, California
It appears that E. coli season is now upon us with what now appears to be the 8th recall of the year. On June 24 JBS Swift Beef Company (former ConAgra Plant famous for 2002 E. coli Outbreak) recalled approximately 41,280 pounds of beef products contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. A few hours
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What if the cookie dough E. coli outbreak actually happened this way?
At 10:00 PM last night between yet another story about Michael Jackson’s death, a foreign Network begin airing a video taken inside a manufacturing facility showing someone treating a batch of cookie dough with an unknown liquid. There is a claim that this
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You cannot see it, taste it, or smell it. 250,000 E. coli O157:H7 (E. coli) bacteria will fit on the head of a pin. Ten to 50 will kill your child or your grandmother.
More likely due the expertise of Children’s Hospitals, and other top medical centers around the country, deaths at times are avoided
“It was not the failure of the cookie dough manufacturer for not keeping cattle feces (E. coli) out of cookie dough that sickened the child, it is the fault of the parent who allowed the child to eat the dough.”
I have received several calls and emails like the above over the last few days
69 persons infected with a strain of E. coli O157:H7 with a particular DNA fingerprint have been reported from 29 states. Of these, 46 have been confirmed by an advanced DNA test as having the outbreak strain; these confirmatory test results are pending on the others. The number of ill persons identified in each state
The Oregon Department of Agriculture announced today that beaches from the south jetty of the 
Columbia River to Neptune State Park, south of Yachats, have been closed to recreational mussel harvesting due to the presence of paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins in those areas. According to the ODA news release concerning the unsafe mussels:
The CDC has confirmed that 69 people, ages 2 to 67, are linked to an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to the consumption of refrigerated Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough. The links are both the food histories as well as the discovery of the outbreak strain of the E. coli O157:H7 bacteria. Nestle has recalled
We are in the midst of another sprouts recall. Sprouts from Kowalke Organics from Culver City, California are being pulled from shelves over potential contamination with Salmonella. According to the LA Times: "Mike Matthews, Kowalke’s owner, told the Associated Press that only one package — with the sell-by date of June 21 —