Wal-Mart named today – Chamberlain Farms to be added Thursday.
Today, Seattle-based Marler Clark, the nation’s leading law firm representing victims of foodborne illness, filed a lawsuit today against Wal-Mart on behalf of a Michigan family stricken by the latest cantaloupe-related Salmonella outbreak. The complaint was filed in Calhoun County Circuit Court in Michigan on
Farm’s cantaloupe may be one source of contamination in multi-state outbreak of salmonellosis
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is announcing a recall of cantaloupe by Chamberlain Farms, of Owensville, Indiana, because of possible contamination with Salmonella Typhimurium associated with a multi-state outbreak of salmonellosis. The FDA is warning consumers not to eat
A year after 147 people were sickened, and perhaps 37 died, from Listeria-tainted cantaloupe, comes yesterday’s announcement from the CDC and FDA that a total of 141 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 20 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama
To date, we know that 141 people were sickened by salmonella from cantaloupes. We know that at least 50 of those people, including 2 who died, were from Kentucky. We know that the kind of Salmonella involved is Typhimurium. We know that the CDC cannot say for sure, at this point, that the outbreak
The Democrat and Chronicle reports that Livingston County, New York, is the site of a cluster of E. coli illnesses that occurred in the area over a two week span this month. Of the 7 illnesses, four people were hospitalized. Two have since been discharged, and it is feared that the other two remain hospitalized
Tanimura & Antle Inc. is voluntarily recalling a single lot of romaine lettuce because it may be contaminated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacteria (E. Coli O157:H7). The affected product is limited to Tanimura & Antle Field Fresh Wrapped Single Head Romaine. This product is packed in a plastic bag with the UPC number 0-27918-20314-9 and
After almost 20 years – yes, it has been that long since the Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak – a few years ago I started loosing track of the number of foodborne illness outbreaks. That is why we developed the Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database.
The database has come in handy
On Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that a total of 141 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium had been reported from 20 states linked to Indiana grown cantaloupe. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows:
Bloomberg’s Stephanie Armour is reporting that an unidentified farm in southwestern Indiana is withdrawing cantaloupe from the marketplace following a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 141 people and killed two in 20 U.S. states, federal regulators said.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. also began contacting outlets last night and instructing them to withdraw cantaloupe grown in southwestern
A total of 141 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 20 states linked to Indiana grown cantaloupe.
The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (7), Arkansas (3), California (2), Georgia (1), Illinois (17), Indiana (13), Iowa (7), Kentucky (50), Michigan (6), Minnesota