Mike Hughlett at the Star Tribune reported today on another Minnesota resident (this time, not Mike Hartmann) making a point about the law by disobeying it–more specifically, the laws that prohibit him from selling raw milk and other food and dairy products that he was not licensed to produce and sell.
Alvin Schlangen was believed to
Salmonella and cantaloupe, and cantaloupe and other bugs like E. coli, have been bedfellows all too frequently. A 2005 article by Trevor Susslow, Linda Harris, and Tracy Parnell at UC Davis states that “[c]antaloupe has been associated with foodborne outbreaks involving Escherichia coli O157:H7 (DelRosario and Beuchat, 1995), Norovirus (Iversen et al.,1987)
Avvo, a recent entry into the attorney rating market was kind enough to give William Marler a:
On a day that Oak Farms dairy recalled milk due to possible inadequate pasteurization, New Jersey residents are one step closer to buying raw milk in their home state. The New Jersey Assembly this afternoon passed Assembly bill A-743 to legalize the sale of raw milk. The legislation, sponsored by Assemblyman John DiMaio, R-Warren/Hunterdon
Oak Farms Dairy in Waco, Texas is voluntarily recalling half gallon plastic bottles of whole chocolate milk, half pint paper cartons of whole chocolate milk, and half pint paper cartons of 1% chocolate milk due to the presence of Alkaline Phosphatase found in samples during routine testing. The significance of the alkaline phosphatase is that it is typically
Detection of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli Serotypes O26:H11, O103:H2, O111:H8, O145:H28, and O157:H7 in Raw-Milk Cheeses by Using Multiplex Real-Time PCR Jordan Madic, Noémie Vingadassalon, Carine Peytavin de Garam, Muriel Marault, Flemming Scheutz, Hubert Brugère, Emmanuel Jamet, and Frédéric Auvray
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. March 2011 77: 2035-2041
Shiga toxin (Stx)-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) strains are a diverse group of food-borne pathogens with various levels of virulence for humans. In this study, we describe the use of a combination of multiple real-time PCR assays for the screening of 400 raw-milk cheeses for the five main pathogenic STEC serotypes (O26:H11, O103:H2, O111:H8, O145:H28, and O157:H7). The prevalences of samples positive for stx, intimin-encoding gene (eae), and at least one of the five O group genetic markers were 29.8%, 37.3%, and 55.3%, respectively. The H2, H7, H8, H11, and H28 fliC alleles were highly prevalent and could not be used as reliable targets for screening. Combinations of stx, eae variants, and O genetic markers, which are typical of the five targeted STEC serotypes, were detected by real-time PCR in 6.5% of the cheeses (26 samples) and included stx-wzxO26-eae-β1 (4.8%; 19 samples), stx-wzxO103-eae- (1.3%; five samples), stx-ihp1O145-eae- 1 (0.8%; three samples), and stx-rfbEO157-eae- 1 (0.3%; one sample). Twenty-eight immunomagnetic separation (IMS) assays performed on samples positive for these combinations allowed the recovery of seven eaeβ1-positive STEC O26:H11 isolates, whereas no STEC O103:H2, O145:H28, or O157:H7 strains could be isolated. Three stx-negative and eaeβ1-positive E. coli O26:[H11] strains were also isolated from cheeses by IMS. Colony hybridization allowed us to recover STEC from stx-positive samples for 15 out of 45 assays performed, highlighting the difficulties encountered in STEC isolation from dairy products. The STEC O26:H11 isolates shared the same virulence genetic profile as enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) O26:H11, i.e., they carried the virulence-associated genes EHEC-hlyA, katP, and espP, as well as genomic O islands 71 and 122. Except for one strain, they all contained the stx1 variant only, which was reported to be less frequently associated with human cases than stx2. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis showed that they displayed high genetic diversity; none of them had patterns identical to those of human O26:H11 strains investigated here.Continue Reading E. coli trouvé en français fromage, de la bonté
Vitalabs, Inc., of Jonesboro, Georgia, is voluntarily recalling four specific lot numbers of Whey-26 Protein Powder due to concerns over potential Salmonella contamination.
This recall extends to various parts of the United States including Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missouri, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Washington and outside the United States in Aruba, Ontario and Poland. The recalled product was offered through a variety of distribution channels including health food stores, clinics, fitness centers and internet based companies.
The following are the lot numbers involved in this recall:
Continue Reading Vitalabs, Inc. Recalls Whey Protein Products For Salmonella Risk
On Thursday, March 10, 2011, what was already Friday in Japan, the country experienced an 8.9 magnitude earthquake, reported by Japan’s Meteorological Agency to be one of the strongest earthquakes recorded in the nation’s history. In addition to dozens of aftershocks that rattled cities and villages hundreds of miles from the epicenter, the massive earthquake
Raw milk bad boy Mike Hartmann has managed to do the raw milk movement a general disservice over the course of the last year. His products have sickened over a dozen people with E. coli O157:H7 and campylobacter, and he has defied the State of Minnesota at pretty much every opportunity, despite running
DeFranco & Sons of Los Angeles, CA is voluntarily recalling bulk and consumer-packaged in-shell hazelnuts and mixed-nut products containing hazelnuts due to their involvement of a 7 person E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan. The recalled products may have been distributed to retailers nationally. Ill persons range in age from 15 to