Food Depot #24, a McDonough, Ga., retailer is recalling approximately 500 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The following ground beef products subject to recall were sold as tray packs of varying weights bearing
On May 13, 2011, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, filed a complaint requesting that U.S. Marshals seize cheese products distributed by Brunkow Cheese of Wisconsin, Inc. Brunkow, a company based in Darlington, Wisconsin, manufactures, packs, labels, and distributes a variety of cheese products.
The complaint alleged that in February 2011, the U.S. Food and Drug
The Ukranian Prime Minister, Mykola Azarov, announced recently that the regional heads of state administrations would be held personally responsible if any violations lead to food poisoning of children at this year’s summer camps. The regional heads are those tasked with oversight of youth summer camps. The camps host nearly 18,000 children during the summer
The multi-year Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak linked to pet african dwarf frogs may have finally come to an end. The CDC reports that 224 people were sickened from 2009-2011 with the same strain of Salmonella typimurium, with 65% of those people reporting contact with frogs in the week before illness (mostly in the home). Unfortunately, as
Schratter Foods Incorporated, a New Jersey company, is recalling “Quenby Hall Blue Stilton Cheese,” which is produced by the Quenby Stilton Dairy in Leicestershire England, due to potential contamination by Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled “Quenby Hall Blue Stilton Cheese” was distributed nationwide in retail stores. No illnesses have been reported to date in
Rose & Shore Meat Co., a Vernon, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 15,900 pounds of ready-to-eat deli meat products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The products subject to recall include:
On the heels of the Marler Clark retail chicken study, researchers from Wayne State University will publish an article in the June edition of Emerging Infectious Disease on contamination of retail meat. In this study, investigators sampled retail meat in and around Detroit:
We collected 289 raw meat samples (156 beef, 76 chicken, and 57 turkey) from
Michele Simon, a public health lawyer who maintaines the website, Appetite for Profit, has just published her review of Jeff Benedict’s latest book, Poisoned, which details the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak and its aftermath.
From Michele’s review:
For most of us working in food policy, it’s hard to remember
FSIS (the USDA’s food safety and inspection service) has had a standardized test for Non-O157 STECs now for some time, but has not taken the step of designating these bad bugs as “adulterants” in the meat supply. So the reason why is not related to having the ability to meaningfully monitor for non-O157 STECs.
E. coli O157:H7 illnesses, particularly those associated with ground beef products, typically peak in the summer months. In a January 2011 article, Food Safety News published an article, about a study, that asked why. The answer given, in a nutshell, was the increased shedding of bacteria in cow feces one, among possibly many, factors, during the summer months. Read Why Are There