Lately, cheese has usurped the role traditionally played by fresh produce and ground beef as public enemy number 1 in the food safety battle. Maybe the level of contamination in both raw and pasteurized milk-based cheeses hasn’t changed at all recently over historic levels, and the only difference is the high-profile nature of some of
Walkerton study on continuing hypertension and other cardiovascular risks
Data from the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Walkerton Canada has been mined time and again by researchers studying the long-term effects of E. coli infection, including its tendency to cause or exacerbate motility problems in the gastrointestinal tract like IBS. A new study in the British Journal of Medicine finds that outbreak cases who had
More cheese recalled
With no link to the cheese E. coli outbreak, Del Bueno cheese company of Grandview, Washington is recalling all 1 and 3 pound packages of Queso Fresco Fresh Cheese, Queso Panela Fresh Cheese, Requeson Mexican Style Ricotta Cheese and Queso Enchilado Dry Cheese. Del Bueno is recalling the cheese due to potential contamination by Listeria monocytogenes.
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Food Safety Legislation Advances
Maybe the Republicans realized they need to eat food too? Well, at least a dozen of them did. Yesterday, the long languishing Food Safety Modernization Act was advanced by a vote of 74-25, including all of the Democratic senators. A final vote could come soon. The bill originally followed in the wake of the PCA peanut-butter
19 Sickened in Arizona and 10 in Colorado with E. coli-tainted Bravo Cheese
The CDC reports that thirty-seven persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 have been reported from five states. The number of ill persons identified in each state with this strain is as follows: AZ (19), CA (3), CO (10), NM (3) and NV (2). Dates of illness onset range from October 16
Cheese E. coli outbreak: a study in good epidemiology
It may be only a rarity that a widely contaminated food product distributed to a major grocery chain all over an entire region of the country does not cause many severe illnesses. Even though there are at least 37 confirmed illnesses in the cheese E. coli outbreak, many people probably escaped severe illness under some
On foodborne Illiness, Food Poisoning and Food Safety – A Video
E. coli Found in Bravo Farms Gouda Cheese Sold at Costco
The link between Bravo Farms’s Dutch Style Raw Milk Gouda Cheese and an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 among at least 37 Southwest residents became even stronger today. The New Mexico Department of Health has confirmed that an intact sample of the raw milk Gouda cheese sampled and sold at numerous Costco stores has cultured
Arizona E. coli outbreak litigation
It seems like we’re in Arizona a lot litigating E. coli outbreak cases. Currently, we represent numerous people from several states in the E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Costco and Bravo Farms gouda cheese, including 3 Arizona residents on whose behalf we’ve sued the cheesemaker. Not a bad place to litigate in the winter months
Video – KCTS 9 Series April 16, 2010 Lead Story – How Safe is your Burger? A History of E. coli O157:H7
Here is a bit(e) of History of E. coli O157:H7 and hamburger – Jack in the Box to the present.
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