By Hanna Raskin – Seattle Weekly
Eaters who assume buying locally grown food shields them from dangerous foodborne diseases were surprised to learn E. coli associated with fresh strawberries sold at Oregon farmers markets and roadside stands last month killed a woman and sickened at least nine others.
“One of the big problems with local
With E. coli and Salmonella outbreaks in several states today, KTCS looks at food safety over the last decades tonight in “How safe is your food?”
If you can not wait, here is the video:
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USDA/FSIS defines a Class I Recall as:
This is a health hazard situation where there is a reasonable probability that the use of the product will cause serious, adverse health consequences or death.
No kidding! Here are the dirty half dozen of Class I Recalls since I started tracking them:
The Pennsylvania departments of Health and Agriculture and the Allegheny County Health Department are advising the public of the possible health risks associated with products, specifically glass-bottled milk, from Brunton Dairy in Aliquippa, Beaver County.
Since June 15, five individuals – three young children and two older adults – developed diarrhea and other symptoms caused
In the last 20 years, food safety attorney Bill Marler has sued hundreds of large food companies on behalf of thousands of victims of foodborne illness. He has recovered hundreds of millions in settlements and judgments for clients and has helped prompt drastic changes in food safety standards. Now, in an effort to give back
Long past 5:00 PM Eastern Time, the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) flooded the internet with three recalls totaling nine tons of bacon, chopped beef and beef jerky. Fortunately, two are Class II (less deadly) that the one Class I (may kill you). Here are the details:
Class I Recall – Jetro Cash and Carry
On July 6, 2011, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) denied the American Meat Institute’s (AMI’s) 2005 Petition to Recognize the Use of E-beam on Carcasses as a Processing Aid. In response the FSIS stated:
After reviewing the available information associated with this request (refer to attachment 1), FSIS believes that beef carcass geometry
Jul 1, 2011 (CIDRAP News) – The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control has deleted the name of a German seed importer from a risk assessment report on the recent cluster of Escherichia coli cases in France, out of concern about potential unnecessary harm to the company, CIDRAP News learned today.
The original report
In the face of recent E. coli and Salmonella outbreaks linked to sprouts, food safety advocate and attorney Bill Marler, managing partner of Seattle-based Marler Clark, is calling on seed and sprout producers to take a hard, realistic look at the danger their product poses to consumers.
Though the month of June was dubbed
For the past two years, the LL.M. Program in Agricultural & Food Law has been honored to have nationally recognized food safety attorney, Bill Marler, associated with our food safety studies.
Last year, Bill and his partner at Marler Clark, Denis Stearns, offered a special condensed course, Unsafe Foods & Product Liability, and