Swanson Health Products says it is recalling some packages of organic celery seed because it has the potential to be contaminated with salmonella.
The recall affects Swanson Organic Celery Seed (Whole) packaged in plastic bottles with a net weight of 1.4 ounces. The product was sold between June 16 and Dec. 16
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A California produce distributor, Pacific International Marketing, or Pacific, is recalling 6,141 cartons of cilantro due to potential Salmonella contamination. A sample of the cilantro tested positive for Salmonella, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
No illnesses have been reported. Source of the contamination is unknown, the Salinas-based distributor said in a news
Flying Food Group’s Lawrenceville, GA facility is updating its recall of FDA regulated sandwiches originally announced on December 3, 2011 to include two additional products that were inadvertently excluded from its original press release. The two additional products are a Turkey Quarter Pounder and a Turkey Quarter Pounder with Tomatoes. Flying Foods is recalling these
E. coli and Salmonella are typically foodborne bacteria, but contaminated water is far from an infrequent cause of severe gastrointestinal disease. In fact, when a system becomes contaminated, a more perfect method of distributing disease on a wide basis is hard to imagine. Nonetheless, there are always those who do not appear to care much.
A Utah man, Fidel Gomez, has been fined $500 for violation of the Utah Dairy Act, according to a report yesterday. He was fined for illegally manufacturing the cheese without a permit, and failing to label the cheese.
According to a Utah Department of Agriculture and Food Release:
Mr. Gomez came under investigation after
Calcoastnews.com reports that eggnog samples from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo have been found to be contaminated with E. coli and a recall has been initiated, according to Cal Poly.
The Cal Poly Creamery has issued a voluntary recall of its quart-sized bottles of Farmstead Made Eggnog after a sample was found
Raw milk from an unknown source sounds neither refreshing nor nutritious, particularly while 8 Washington and California residents (5 of them children who developed HUS) recover from illnesses suffered in the Cozy Vale and Organic pastures E. coli outbreaks.
Neverthless, that appears to be what the Freedom Riders are going to transport for
Another Listeria recall to report (no, cantaloupe is not the only Listeria tainted food making headlines this fall). Trans-Ocean Products Inc., a Bellingham, Washington company, is recalling its 4-ounce “transOCEAN Wild Alaska Sockeye Smoked Salmon” with lot numbers 1280W and 1293W due to Listeria contamination. The effected “transOCEAN Wild Alaska Sockeye Smoked Salmon” 4-ounce packages were distributed
It was reported this week that Daxing District People’s Court of China convicted Zhao Lianhai for disturbing the social order during the tainted-milk scandal in 2008, sentencing him to two-and-a-half years in prison. Zhao’s own four-year-old son became sick after consuming milk-containing melamine, which is used in plastics and fertilizer production. In 2008, melamine-tainted milk
Salmonella Pine Nuts:
The Salmonella attorneys of Marler Clark, the nation’s leading law firm dedicated to representing victims of foodborne illness outbreaks, have filed a Salmonella lawsuit on behalf of a Rochester, New York man who was made ill after consuming Turkish pine nuts imported by Delaware-based American Pistachio Corp. According to the