Seattle Times staff report:
A Kent company that grows sprouts has been named in at least two lawsuits over Salmonella illness.
Sprouters Northwest voluntarily recalled its products earlier this month, amid reports that at least eight people in Washington and Oregon had become ill after eating sprouts. Tests traced the source back to the company’s
Of the many types of food poisoning that make up our case list, likely none is more frightening than botulism. Botulism is paralytic illness caused by a nerve toxin. The nerve toxin is produced under certain circumstances by a bacterium called Clostridium Botulinum.
Reported cases of botulism are thankfully rare. The CDC indicates roughly 150 cases per
Josh Wolfson at the Star-Tribune, keeping us all updated on the Wyoming Legislature’s consideration of various ill-conceived food regulations, reports that a legislative committee has just killed a bill that would have legalized some sales of raw milk in Wyoming.
The House Agriculture Committee defeated the bill Thursday by a 6-3 vote. Two days
Bruce Finley of the Denver Post profiled our client Madisyn Kirby who was sickened in the E. coli outbreak linked to Bravo Farms gouda cheese sold at Costco.
Three months after she sampled gouda cheese at a Costco and got sick, a Colorado teenager and her family have bolstered their defenses.
No more ground beef.
Hawaii Business Group Inc., Barb’s Favorite Recipes and Ohana Seafoods are recalling Barb’s Local Style Black Bean Sauce and Ohana Flavors Black Bean Sauce because of possible health risks due to the potential growth of Clostridium Botulinum (botulism), a bacterium which can cause life-threatening illness or death. The sauce was manufactured by First
The Valley Voice Newspaper reports that Bravo Farms has resumed selling cheese after closing in the wake of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to its gouda cheese. After the original shutdown, Listeria was found in the production environment. No illnesses were known to be associated with the Listeria finding, but at least 38
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) has published a nationwide report card grade for all 50 states and DC on how well they detect, investigate, and report outbreaks of foodborne illness.
Using 10 years of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Center for Science in the Public
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The fervent truth seekers over at PolitiFact.com have honed in on the recent claim by Georgia Congressman, Jack Kingston, that the U.S. has "a food supply that’s 99.99 percent safe" and therefore the federal government may not be justified in funding the recently passed Food Safety Modernization Act, which tightens food safety rules and gives
Josh Wolfson at the Casper Star Tribune reports that the "Food Freedom Bill," which would have exempted Wyoming food producers that sell direct to consumers from state licensing and inspection requirements, died in legislative committee on Tuesday. (Question, might such a bill have conflicted with the requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act, or any of the
United Food Group, LLC, a California business, is recalling approximately 7,875 pounds of ready-to-eat Angus Beef patties that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The products subject to recall include 22.5-pound cases of “FULLY COOKED BLACK ANGUS GROUND BEEF STEAK PATTIES,” with each case containing 75 individual 4.8-ounce patties.
Each package bears the establishment