Texas leads nation at 25 on number of ill in 23 state outbreak
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an update today on the ongoing multistate outbreak of Salmonella Agona linked to the consumption of fresh, whole papayas imported from Mexico by Agromod Produce, Inc. of McAllen, Texas. According to the report:
In the middle of yet another Salmonella outbreak, I thought it would be helpful to hear a bit about “Salmonella 101.”
On July 20, 2011, Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, a Mount Pleasant, Texas company initially issued a recall of ready-to-eat chicken products due to a possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced that Pilgrim’s Pride is expanding its recall by an additional 7,072 pounds. The problem
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an update today on the ongoing multistate outbreak of Salmonella Agona linked to the consumption of fresh, whole papayas imported from Mexico by Agromod Produce, Inc. of McAllen, Texas. According to the report:
A total of 99 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Agona
On July 26, 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 99 people, ranging in age from 1 to 91, are part of a nationwide Salmonella outbreak that has been traced to contaminated papayas imported from Mexico. At least 10 of the victims were hospitalized.
Agromod Produce, Inc. of McAllen, Texas, recalled all
News sources are reporting today that the E. coli O104:H4 outbreak that killed more than 50 people and sickened thousands is now over. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the German public health body, informed the public that the last reported case occurred three weeks ago.
According to an article by the Associated Foreign Press, RKI
Call it good public health work, or just bad luck, but whatever the case Illinois is all too often at the unfortunate epicenter of big salmonella outbreaks. The CDC announced over the weekend that papayas from Agromod Produce, Inc., a distributor in McAllen,Texas, have caused nearly 100 Salmonella Agona illnesses in 23 states since January
A few days ago, a blog entry was posted on Food Poison Journal alerting readers to an unusually high number of individuals diagnosed with Guillian-Barré Syndrome, a disorder in which the body’s immune system attacks part of the peripheral nervous system, along a small stretch of the United States-Mexico border. Today, the number of
After 18 year representing thousands of people in every Salmonella outbreak in the United States (and some abroad), finding Salmonella causing illnesses from papayas, should not be much of a surprise, since it happened in Australia in 2006 and in Singapore in 1997. Here is a sample of Salmonella litigation over the last two
Public health officials have identified papayas from Agromod Produce, Inc., a distributor in McAllen,Texas as the likely cause of the a recent Salmonella Agona outbreak that has sickened at least 97 people in 23 states and forced the recall of papaya in the United States and Canada. The CDC and FDA is warning consumers not