A total of 58 employees who worked at the Zappos plant in Bullit County, Kentucky were infected by a bacteria called Bacillus cereus in December. At least twenty-nine sought medical attention, but nobody was hospitalized.
With the full cooperation of Zappos and the contracted caterer, Materson’s, the health department has completed an investigation into the matter. The investigation
According to CIDRAP, gaps in biosafety training likely played a role in a Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak linked to lab exposure that sickened 109 people in 38 states. The report is based on a CDC summary released January 17.
The outbreak involved a commercially available Salmonella Typhimurium strain used in laboratories, and health officials believe
On January 17, Frisia Dairy and Creamery of Tenino, Washington recalled all of its raw fluid milk products because testing showed that the milk was contaminated by a shiga-toxin producing strain of E. coli. The recalled milk products, including whole, skim, and cream, were distributed through on-farm sales and at eight retail outlets in Lewis, Thurston and
Today it was announced that the Frisia Dairy and Creamery, located in Tenino, Washington, is recalling its raw milk products after routine sampling turned up shiga toxin-producing E. coli bacteria in its skim raw milk product. Thankfully no illnesses have been detected thus far.
The products being recalled include whole, skim, and cream milk sold
The Ambassador E. coli O157:H7 outbreak was not Michigan’s first E. coli outbreak of 2011, though it may have been the last. 7 confirmed cases, all caused by a sick foodhandler, around Christmas time. 4 of the 7 cases required hospitalization.
Here are a few other E. coli outbreaks that struck Michigan residents in 2011:
There is a rash of outbreaks in the upper midwest right now (E. coli in Michigan, Norovirus in Illinois, and Norovirus in Indiana). We learned yesterday about an E. coli outbreak linked to The Ambassador Restaurant in Michigan, which sickened 7 in late December. (Question: if the public was just informed about this outbreak
Western U.P. Health Department is investigating a cluster of E coli O157:H7 cases who became ill over the Christmas holidays. Initially 3 local and 2 non-local cases were identified.
Investigation has led to the identification of two additional cases. Four of the cases were hospitalized; no deaths have occurred. The health department has determined that
Three close-to-simultaneous norovirus outbreaks in the upper midwest must have sanitarians scratching their heads. Norovirus is as exclusively fecal-oral as any bug out there, and a lot of Jimmy Johns, Subway, and Bob Chinns customers are probably pretty upset about it. And in a cruel twist of irony, the Jimmy Johns outbreak sickened many first-responders at
The Cook County Department of Health has confirmed that 97 people have been stricken with a gastrointestinal illness after eating at Bob Chinn’s Crab House in Wheeling, Illinois. It is being reported that the numbers of ill persons are likely to increase, “because of the popularity of the restaurant and the volume of people that
By Gretchen Goetz at Food Safety News:
The top left corner of the menu at Jimmy John’s restaurants jokingly tells customers that the store was established “to add to students GPA and general dating ability.”
But an investigation into the cause of a foodborne illness outbreak in Northwest Indiana shows that the sub shop