The Barry-Eaton District Health Department (BEDHD) in Hastings, Michigan has closed Tequila’s Mexican Grill again as of 11:45 AM on Friday, June 21st.
BEDHD received additional information from the investigation and from epidemiology that suggests the 39 individual illnesses is not norovirus. Based on this information, BEDHD staff reviewed additional food handling procedures
Mizkan America, Inc., announced the voluntary recall of select production codes of certain RAGÚ® pasta sauces in the U.S. because the sauce may contain fragments of plastic. There have not been any reports of consumer injuries or complaints. Mizkan America is taking this action out of an abundance of caution. This recall is at
The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) is reminding Delawareans to avoid consuming raw dairy products as it announces a confirmed case of brucellosis caused by Brucella melitensis in a 46-year-old Sussex County woman. The illness is a bacterial infection, which primarily affects those consuming, or coming into contact with, contaminated animals or animal products.
Ruiz Foods Products Inc., a Denison, Texas, establishment, is recalling approximately 246,514 pounds of frozen, not ready-to-eat (NRTE) breakfast wrap products containing bacon that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically small rocks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The frozen egg, potato, bacon and cheese wrap items
This month’s NW Lawyer piece is a “mouthful.” – http://nwlawyer.wsba.org/nwlawyer/june_2019/MobilePagedArticle.action?articleId=1496277#articleId1496277
The Hawai‘i Department of Health (DOH) has received notification from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that its laboratory confirmed three unrelated cases of angiostrongyliasis, or rat lungworm disease, in visitors to Hawai‘i Island. All three individuals are adult residents of the U.S. mainland and were traveling in Hawai‘i when they were infected
Just days after the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled a major study showing serious foodborne bacteria was found in ice cream production plants across 32 states, including New York, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is making the case for critical strengthening with robust federal investments into the FDA’s food safety program that can help
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) today recommended that consumers avoid eating raw oysters harvested from Estero El Cardon in Baja California Sur, Mexico, because they are linked to an outbreak of gastrointestinal illnesses in California.
In California, 12 individuals have reported illness in February, March, and April after consuming raw oysters sold by
Bill Marler, food safety advocate and foodborne attorney since 1993, whose Seattle law firm, Marler Clark, has been contacted by victims of the recent E. coli O103 ground meat outbreak, and recent Salmonella outbreaks linked cut fruit and ground tuna, called today on those companies responsible to pay the medical bills and lost
Not much of a surprise to those who follow my blog. Looks like biggest culprits are Chicken and Leafy Greens.
The CDC reported today that the incidence of three major foodborne pathogens Campylobacter, Salmonella Enteritidis and STEC E. coli has increased in 2018.
The Bug – Campylobacter: Campylobacter continues to be the most commonly