The Washington State Department of Health (WDOH) announced today that two recent E. coli O157:H7 infections are connected to the consumption of "raw" unpasteurized milk. According to WDOH "The two cases confirmed this month bring the count of infections this year associated with one Bellingham dairy to eight."
Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) is
Organicgirl Produce announced a recall today of its 10 oz organicgirl Baby Spinach with an expiration Date of May 22 and Product Code 11A061167 because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. The product was distributed in sold in 6 states, including: Alabama, North Carolina, Oregon, Wisconsin, Arizona and California.
This recall
Yesterday’s announcement of another E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to raw milk will surely set off another round of debate about the virtues, dangers, legality, and even constitutionality of state and federal regulation of raw milk. Many states disallow raw milk sales; some allow it from properly licensed dairies; and in some states, such
In the Minnesota E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to raw milk from the Hartman Dairy Farm, state health officials have identified four outbreak cases, all of whom were hospitalized for treatment of their injuries. Sadly, as Mike Hughlett reported in the Minnesota Star Tribune today, an area toddler, one of the victims, remains hospitalized, having
The April 2010 E. coli O145 outbreak linked to Freshway romaine lettuce grown by Andrew Smith Company sickened 33 people (26 confirmed and 7 probable cases) from 5 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state with this strain is: MI (11 confirmed and 2 probable), NY (5 confirmed and 2 probable), OH (8
Sprouts from Caldwell Fresh Foods, of Maywood, California, have caused approximately 22 illnesses in multiple states, including 11 in its home state of California. The outbreak strain of Salmonella is Salmonella Newport, and the implicated sprouts, which were widely distributed to retailers nationally, have been recalled.
Since May 14, the Butte County Public Health Depeartment
A cook at a popular Bayside, Florida Chili’s Grill and Bar apparently worked for a period of time while ill and contagious with Salmonella typhi, the strain that causes typhoid fever, reported NBC Miami today.
While no patron illnesses have been reported thus far, hundreds of people may have consumed food prepared by the cook
Still not half way through 2010, and we have already seen at least six outbreaks of illness, involving three different dangerous pathogens, tied to raw milk. There have been outbreaks in Minnesota, Nevada, Utah (2), and Pennsylvania, as well as a single outbreak that included illnesses in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. Raw milk consumers have been
Consumers warned against consuming unpasteurized dairy products
State health officials have linked three cases of E. coli O157:H7 illness with raw milk from a dairy farm in Gibbon, Minn. The Minnesota Department of Health urges anyone who may have recently purchased milk from the Hartmann Dairy Farm, also known as M.O.M.’s, to discard the product
The USDA, on a new website on May 13, unveiled a cost of food poisoning calculator. To date, the only two pathogens with reported yearly costs estimates are Salmonella and E. coli O157:H7. The combined cost estimate for those two? In excess of $3 Billion.
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According to the USDA, the estimates "include assumptions about disease incidence