The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a press release today announcing that Flying Food Group, LLC, a Lawrenceville, Ga., establishment, is recalling approximately 204 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken wraps and plates that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
FSIS became aware of the contamination after it conducted
The FDA is working with officials in North Carolina and South Carolina to investigate an outbreak of campylobacteriosis in three people who consumed raw milk from Tucker Adkins Dairy in York, S.C. The three confirmed cases and another five probable cases are from three different households and each case reports that prior to becoming ill
According to the New York Times and Food Safety News, last month, Costco, one of the nation’s largest food retailers, quietly began requiring its suppliers of bagged produce, including salad greens and mixes, apple slices and baby carrots, to test for a broad range of toxic E. coli.
“We know this is where we have
Marler Clark, the nation’s leading law firm representing victims of foodborne illness outbreaks, petitioned the United States Department of Agriculture(USDA) to declare all illness-causing strains of E. coli bacteria adulterants in food. The firm, which is representing victims of the recent Germany-based E. coli O104 outbreak, today commended Beef Products, Inc. (BPI) for taking a
On June 28, we reported here on news of a possible foodborne illness outbreak at the U.S. Penitentiary – Canann in Waymart, Pennsylvania. At the time, officials had not provided information on the infectious agent involved, and downplayed estimates of the number of people ill.
The AP reports today though that hundreds of inmates have been sickened with Salmonella
Sid Wainer & Son, Inc., a New Bedford, Mass. establishment, is recalling approximately 137 pounds of imported, ready-to-eat, smoked duck breast products that may be contaminated with Salmonella, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
Through routine testing on July 12, 2011, FSIS found a sample of smoked duck
Today, the Wyoming Department of Health issued a press release reporting that there has been a sharp increase statewide in potentially dangerous human Campylobacter bacterial infections this summer.
According to the release:
The department has identified 29 cases of Campylobacter infections in Wyoming residents statewide since June 1, which represents a 4-fold increase compared to
According to a report today by the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) and a risk assessment statement issued by the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC), health officials in Germany are now investigating a cluster of E. coli O104:H4 infections at a German school located in
After a lengthy trace back investigation, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) issued a press release last week on July 5, 2011 concluding that one lot of fenugreek seeds imported from Egypt and used to produce sprouts is the most likely common link between the two outbreaks of E. coli O104:H4 that occurred in France
On July 6, 2011, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) denied the American Meat Institute’s (AMI’s) 2005 Petition to Recognize the Use of E-beam on Carcasses as a Processing Aid. In response the FSIS stated:
After reviewing the available information associated with this request (refer to attachment 1), FSIS believes that beef carcass geometry