Klement Sausage Company, Inc., a Milwaukee, Wisc., establishment, is recalling approximately 2,740 pounds of beef stick products that may contain foreign materials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The recalled products are 8-ounce packages of "MARKET PANTRY BEEF STICKS, ORIGINAL."
Each package is vacuum packaged and has a
Unfortunately for Texans, the food safety spotlight is shining bright on Texas this week, and probably next week too. This week, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) announced that chopped celery sold by Sangar Fresh Cut Produce was the source of a Listeria food poisoning outbreak. Texas DSHS had been investigating the source
Next week I will be co-chairing the ACI Foodborne Illness Litigation Conference in Chicago and co-hosting an evening meal for the speakers. I had to approve the dinner menu, which got me thinking (after nearly 20 years) about what a Marler Clark Potluck would look like. Then I started thinking about what if this
Next week I will be co-chairing the ACI Foodborne Illness Litigation Conference in Chicago and co-hosting an evening meal for the speakers. I had to approve the dinner menu which got me thinking (after nearly 20 years) about what a Marler Clark Potluck would look like: Without much thought here is the meal from hell:
Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A., Inc ("Del Monte Fresh") announced today the voluntary recall of certain cantaloupes grown in and shipped from Arizona. The affected product was distributed to limited customers in and around Detroit, Michigan and is being recalled because these cantaloupes have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella.
This is certainly
Sangar Fresh Cut Produce is in the midst of a public relations nightmare, now that everybody who pays attention to food safety events at all knows that its at the center of a listeria outbreak that may have killed four people. Sangar’s brass is taking a pretty brash stance on its implication in the outbreak
Sangar Fresh Cut Produce does not want the "Sangar listeria outbreak in Texas" to be called the "Sangar listeria outbreak." In fact, Sangar says the State of Texas Department of Health got it all wrong when it found listeria in Sangar’s products. Sangar President Kenneth Sanquist says that
"The state’s claim that some of
Sangar Fresh Cut Produce’s listeria outbreak will surely result in lawsuits, as well it should given that 5 people have apparently died as a result of their listeria infections. Nevermind that they are reported to have had underlying illnesses. They were still people with families who will never see them again. Aside from that, its
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On October 20, 2010, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) announced that it had determined chopped celery was the source of a Listeria food poisoning outbreak among Texas residents. Texas DSHS had been investigating the source of 10 cases of listeriosis—the illness caused by the ingestion of Listeria baciteria, 5 of which
The Texas Department of State Health Services today ordered Sangar Fresh Cut Produce in San Antonio to stop processing food and recall all products shipped from the plant since January. Ironic timing for this recall. One of our lawyers or epidemiologist, Patti Waller, is speaking to health departments and industry nationally about half the days every