For the third time this year, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is carefully orchestrating a “voluntary recall” of all products containing a certain ingredient.
This time it is products with nonfat dry milk produced by the Minnesota-based Plainview Milk Products Cooperative that are the main targets of the recall.
Plainview Milk also made
Over the 4th of July holiday, many Americans will get together for picnics, barbeques, and other gatherings. For many, food will take center stage, and hopefully proper food safety practices will ensure that in the days following these gatherings people will not be doubled-over in pain, running to and from the bathroom because of something
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Batch/UPC Code: Anaheim peppers sold since June 11, 2009.
Reason for Recall: Wegmans has removed fresh Anaheim peppers from its Produce departments due to the possibility of salmonella contamination. The FDA is currently investigating the situation.
If you still have Anaheim peppers, please throw them away. Do not return them to the store. You may
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Wegman’s grocery chain (73 stores in five states–MD, PA, NJ, NY, and VA) issued a recall yesterday for all fresh Anaheim peppers sold in its produce departments due to concerns of possible Salmonella contamination. The recall involves all Anaheim peppers sold at Wegman’s since June 11, 2009. The FDA is currently investigating, and we have received no word
I’m no longer surprised when we get word of an outbreak associated with some new, seemingly innocuous food item. Cookie dough for Christ’s sake. Elissa Elan reported this week that Dunkin Doughnuts learned that its supplier of instant non-fat dried milk and whey protein (Plainview Milk Products Cooperative of Plainview, Minn) had detected Salmonella on
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It really is a bit hard to imagine what today was like for JBS Swift and the FSIS – checking the list of retailers that might have received the 420,000 pounds of E. coli O157:H7 meat. This morning a few names trickled out – this evening a torrent, tomorrow a flood? Here is the most
Michigan is no stranger to outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 . . . particularly over the course of the last year. The CDC reports six culture-confirmed, PFGE matched cases in the JBS Swift outbreak and recall. Michigan also counted many of its residents as victims in the E. coli outbreak linked to lettuce sold by Aunt
More than a week after JBS Swift initiated a nationwide recall of E. coli-tainted meat, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and JBS Swift have taken the necessary steps of alerting consumers as to which retail outlets received the beef. After an initial recall of 41,280 pounds on June 24, JBS Swift
There are a few key elements to having a good 4th of July. First, don’t shoot off your fireworks by hand. Second, illegal fireworks are fun, but they’re illegal for a reason, so see #1 if you’re planning to light any M 1000’s. Third, watch the Seattle fireworks from our offices, where you can simultaneously
Several state health departments, CDC, and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) are investigating a multi-state outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections. On June 24, FSIS issued a notice about a recall of 41,280 pounds of beef products from JBS Swift Beef Company that may be contaminated with E.