Tongue firmly planted in his cheek, Bill Marler recently teed off on a Wyoming legislator’s (Sue Wallis (R-Recluse, WY)) sponsorship of a bill that would exempt food producers in Wyoming from licenses, inspections and certifications when selling directly to consumers. Ms. Wallis asserts that Wyoming citizens have "the fundamental right . . . to eat whatever
Listeria, cheese recalls, and pregnancy
Washington and Oregon have been the site of two recent cheese recalls due to contamination by listeria monocytogenes. The first was announced earlier this month by the Estrella Family Creamery of Montesano, Washington. And the second was announced yesterday by Queserita Bendita, a Yakima area cheese producer. Interestingly, not all of the recalled cheeses
Lawsuit to be filed tomorrow in Salmonella rissen white pepper outbreak
In the midst of ongoing salmonella and listeria outbreaks involving red pepper/black pepper/salami and Queseria Bendita cheese, we will file a lawsuit tomorrow in Oakland on behalf of the family of an elderly woman who died in April 2009 after ingesting white pepper contaminated by Salmonella rissen bacteria. The defendants are the companies that manufactured
Queseria Bendita Listeria-Contaminated Cheese Recall
The FDA announced yesterday a recall by Queseria Bendita of certain cheese products due to fears that the products are contaminated by Listeria monocytogenes. The potentially lethal bacteria has been found at the Queseria Bendita facility and in samples of unopened, recalled product.
Queseria Bendita is a small cheesemaking operation in Yakima, WA. They’ve
Experts to discuss legal aspects of food at Feb. 26 symposium
Experts on legal aspects of food will visit the University of Iowa Friday, Feb. 26 to discuss recipe copyrights, food safety and marketing, community-based agriculture, and a century-long ban on yellow margarine in Quebec.
Experts on legal aspects of food will visit the University of Iowa Friday, Feb. 26 to discuss recipe copyrights, food safety
USDA-FDA joint statement on produce safety
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Yesterday, the USDA and FDA released a joint statement on their intent to coordinate efforts to achieve better produce safety. See Salinas Valley, Leafy Green Vegetables, and E. coli for a description and summary of the problem. The joint statement reads as follows:
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Food and Drug Administration
Why Traceability Matters- Recalled Ground Beef in Schools?
As reported here earlier, "On February 12, 2010, Huntington Meat Packing, Inc., expanded its January 18, 2010 beef recall to include approximately 4.9 million pounds of beef and veal products that it produced in 2009 and the first few days of this year. "
Now Kalamazoo TV station, WWMT, reports that schools in that area
FSIS consolidated product list in Daniele Inc recall
In order to aid consumers, the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture has consolidated into this one list all the of ready-to-eat Italian deli meats and sausages currently subject to recall by Daniele International Inc.
On January 23, 2010 and in an update on February 4, 2010, Daniele International Inc.
Red pepper? Black pepper? Other possibilities in the ongoing Salmonella salami outbreak?
In the last two days, information has continued to trickle in from several sources (primarily, and refreshingly, the company itself) about the ongoing salmonella outbreak linked to recalled salami and black pepper . . . and now red pepper. Yesterday evening, Daniele also disclosed that the supplier of the contaminated red and black pepper
Daniele Inc. statement on ongoing outbreak and recall
In a statement released today, Daniele Inc. indicates that the black and red pepper that was included in its recalled salami products came from the same supplier, The statement reads, in part, as follows:
On February 16, 2010, Daniele expanded this recall because of concerns about red pepper used at one
of its plants. The