By Hope Belli Tinney, WSU Today
PULLMAN – Americans don’t tend to take a “buyer beware” approach to food consumption, but perhaps they should.
William D. “Bill” Marler, an expert in food-borne illness and the law, spoke at WSU Pullman Wednesday to say that food-borne illness is far more prevalent than most people realize and
Victims of foodborne illness gathered in the nation’s capital last week to speak to Senators about the need to move food safety legislation forward. Senate bill 510 (S510, the Food Safety Modernization Act) passed unanimously out of committee in November, but has yet to come to the floor of the Senate for a vote.
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The FDA announced yesterday that yet another company is recalling black pepper products as a result of Salmonella contamination. This recall is related to the Mincing Overseas Spice Company recall that occurred on the heels of a major salmonella outbreak linked to Salami products manufactured and sold by Daniele Inc.
The FDA announcement reads as
What do you think, should the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hire Stephen Colbert to do all of its consumer alerts for recalled products?
Based on his informational (and comedic) handling of the latest product to be recalled in the ever-expanding Salmonella HVP outbreak, Pringles Cheeseburger and Taco Night flavored chips, Mr. Colbert has my
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As lawsuits commence, the Dupage County Health Department continues to receive reports of illness linked to the Lombard, Illinois Subway restaurant that is at the epicenter of a major shigella outbreak. Spokesperson David Hass recently stated that lab tests have confirmed 21 illnesses in the outbreak. At least seven people have been hospitalized.
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Today, yet another company had to recall products due to Salmonella-contaminated hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) manufactured by Basic Food Flavors, a Las Vegas, Nevada company. Today’s recall was by Ruiz Foods, Inc., a Denison, Texas establishment, who had to recall 115,700 pounds of a ready-to-eat beef product that contained HVP as an ingredient.
But Ruiz Foods is just another
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Basic Food Flavors "continued to make and distribute food ingredients for about a month after it learned the bacteria salmonella was present at its processing facility, according to a Food and Drug Administration report."
The recall of products containing hydrolyzed vegetable protein, announced last week involves more
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