Raw ground beef and Salmonella would seem to go hand in hand. Recent history is replete with outbreaks of Salmonella linked to ground beef, mostly the cooked variety (see Marler Clark’s outbreakdatabase.com for a historical listing of ground beef salmonella outbreaks). Nonetheless, raw beef kibbeh (an Arab dish made with bulghur, minced onions, and
Michigan Raw Beef Kibbeh Sickens Seven with Salmonella
Jouni Meats, Inc., a Sterling Heights, Michigan retail store, is recalling approximately 500 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with a strain of Salmonella Typhimurium, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. These products were produced between Dec. 4, 2012, and Dec. 9, 2012, and distributed
Louisiana Head Cheese Salmonella Illnesses Prompts Recall
Stallings Head Cheese Co., Inc., a Houston, Texas establishment, is recalling 4,700 pounds of hog head cheese that may be contaminated with Salmonella, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The following products are subject to recall:
• 10-oz. packages of “Richard’s Hog Head Cheese” bearing establishment number “EST.
E. coli Lessons Learned the Hard Way, this Time Odwalla
Yesterday on Food Safety News I told the story: Publisher’s Platform: Lessons Learned the Hard Way, about the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. Today, it is another all too familiar outbreak and the shocking reality of why it happened.
In the fall of 1996 the very last of the Jack
Knott’s Recalls Listeria Chicken Salad
Knott’s Fine Foods, Inc. of Paris, TN, is voluntarily recalling its 3 ounce Chicken Salad Sandwiches with an expiration date of 1/29/13 and earlier because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with
Listeria Recall at B and D Foods
LJD Holdings, Inc., doing business as B and D Foods, a Boise, Idaho establishment, is recalling approximately 33,500 pounds of fully cooked meat and poultry products due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The following product is subject to recall:
• 10-lb.
Canadian E. coli Outbreak now 30
The latest evidence in the Public Health Agency of Canada’s food-borne illness investigation indicates that the most probable cause of the E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in the New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Ontario is shredded lettuce distributed by FreshPoint Inc. primarily to some KFC and Taco Bell restaurants.
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The good and the bad of Glenn’s Market’s disclosure
Full disclosure and the timely dissemination of information is a critical component to protecting public health, particularly in the setting of a ground beef E. coli outbreak. And Glenn’s Market in Watertown, Wisconsin is at the center of one right now.
Company approaches differ wildly when it comes to informing the public, but Glenn’s
The Jack in the Box E. coli Outbreak – 20 Years Ago Today
On January 13, 1993, the Washington Department of Health (WDOH) was notified that a cluster of children suffering hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) secondary to E. coli infection was being treated in a Seattle-area hospital and that there had been an increase in emergency room visits from patients with bloody diarrhea. In response to the apparent
Longhorn Steakhouse E. coli victim, Mitchell Scheible, speaks out
Twelve-year-old Mitchell Scheible is one of multiple victims of an E. coli outbreak linked to a Longhorn Steakhouse in Green Township, Ohio. Mitchell and his family ate dinner there shortly before Christmas, and it was a meal that landed him in the hospital.
Mike Samet, public information officer with the county health department, said