September 2012

The Beacon News reports that the Kane County Health Department has confirmed it is conducting a food-borne illness investigation at Aliano’s Ristorante, a downtown Batavia, Illinois Italian restaurant that opened a year ago.

Tom Schlueter, health communications coordinator for the Health Department, said Tuesday there have been six cases of salmonella with common links that

Yesterday, a Washington state company became the latest to recall its Ricotta Salata Frescolina Brand cheese for potential Listeria contamination. Peterson Company distributed the potentially contaminated cheese to distributors, retailers and restaurants in Washington and Oregon after receiving it from cheese importer Forever Cheese of Long Island City, NY, which issued a recall for its

Listeria contaminated cantaloupes killed almost 40 people last summer.  This summer, cantaloupes from Chamberlain Farms were contaminated by Salmonella, killing 3 kentucky residents and sickening at least 270 people in 26 states.  Now, actually a few days ago, DFI Marketing Inc., a California Company, is recalling cantaloupes due to Salmonella contamination.  There are

Screen Shot 2012-09-15 at 5.42.08 PM.pngWhole Foods Market announces that it is recalling ricotta salata sold in 21 states and Washington, D.C. that came from its supplier Forever Cheese Inc. of Long Island City, NY. Forever Cheese recalled this cheese product because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The recalled Ricotta Salata Frescolina brand cheese was cut into wedges,

The attorneys of the Seattle-based Food Safety Law Firm, Marler Clark, and McMichael, Medlin, D’Anna, Wedgeworth & Lafargue filed a Listeria lawsuit yesterday against Frontera Produce, the distributor of cantaloupes that the FDA identified as the source of a nationwide Listeria outbreak in September 2011; Primus Group, a company that provided auditing services for Jensen

Last week Seattle based food safety law firm, Marler Clark, filed a Salmonella lawsuit (2:12-cv-01508) against Splendid Products of Burlingame, California, the distributor of Daniella mangoes that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Center for Disease Control and Prevention have identified as the source of a nationwide Salmonella Braenderup outbreak in August

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California with most illnesses.

A total of 121 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Braenderup have been reported from 15 states.

The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: California (93), Delaware (1), Hawaii (4), Idaho (1), Illinois (2), Maine (1), Michigan (1), Montana (1), Nebraska (1), New Jersey