Georgia Agriculture Commissioner Gary W. Black alerted consumers to a recall of McCormick & Company products manufactured with hydrolyzed vegetable protein because they could be contaminated with bacteria.
The products are supplied by Basic Food Flavors of Las Vegas and were distributed nationwide and sold in retail stores, including two products that were distributed internationally.
Yesterday, March 8, 2011, The British Columbia Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC), an agency of the Provincial Health Services Authority, warned the public to avoid consuming watermelon jelly prepared by Jamnation Fine Foods due to a potential contamination with toxins produced from the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Those toxins may cause botulism, a rare but
A Newberg, Oregon hazelnut packer, George Packing Co., has refused to give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) a list of its suppliers as part of a recent E. coli outbreak investigation. Despite the clear epidemiological link to the hazelnuts, the company claims “propriety” information and the fact that no sampled hazelnuts have thus
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, an Arkansas City, Kan., establishment, is recalling approximately 14,158 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The products subject to recall include: (View Labels)
Creekstone Farms Premium Beef, from Arkansas City, Kansas, has recalled approximately 14,158 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
The products subject to recall include:
Pig ear dog chews manufactured by Jones Natural Chews Co. of Rockford, Ill., and shipped to distributors and retailers in Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
The chews may be contaminated with salmonella, which can cause
On March 3, 2011, FDA announced that Teavana, an Atlanta-based corporation, was issuing a voluntary, nationwide recall of 2,659 pounds of Peppermint Organic Herbal Tea produced by Aromatics Inc., located in Basin City, Washington.
The recall of the tea, which was distributed nationwide in Teavana retail stores and through mail and Internet orders, was due
At Marler Clark we have been working on ways to keep consumers informed on issues of Food Safety. That is why we have all the below “bug” websites and why I sponsor specifically Food Safety News (FSN) and the Foodborne Illness Outbreak Databse. It is ultimately the free market – consumers being aware of companies with good and bad food safety histories – that will help make food safer in the long run by having consumers vote with their pocketbooks.
We thought we would add one more portal of information (it will likely be placed over at FSN) for consumers by listing all the websites we (my staff) could find on restaurant scores.
It is still a work in progress, and I would love any feedback on places that have been missed. It is clear some states, counties and cities are more interested in inspections and more willing to put the information on the web.
Happy eating – links below:Continue Reading Restaurant Inspections Online – who has them and who does not?
From the News Desk at Food Safety News: An alternative meat inspection program used by Australian exporters maintains sanitation standards equal to those of the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), according to a notice of approval published in the Federal Register March 3.
The notice says FSIS is reaffirming its earlier decision
In a Sunday editorial, the New York Times questioned the wisdom of budget cuts to food safety programs. This despite budget woes everywhere. The Times notes that meat inspection would be deprived of $88 million, and the FDA would lose $242 million in funding, though not all of that money would have gone to food