This week the FDA is reporting 10 E. coli O157:H7 illnesses linked to “not yet identified.” This is the same for a Listeria outbreak that has sickened 21. The Hepatitis A outbreak is linked to strawberries and has sickened 27 (10 of those in Canada) and the Salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter has sickened
Brownies with added metal recalled due to health risk
H-E-B is voluntarily issuing a recall for H-E-B Bakery Two Bite Brownies (12 oz) and H-E-B Simply Delicious Cookies with Brownie Bites Party Trays for potential metal fragments in product. The potentially affected products were manufactured by an outside supplier and distributed only to H-E-B and Joe V’s Smart Shop stores in Texas and Mexico.
FDA Outbreak Investigations – Norovirus, Salmonella, Cronobacter, Listeria and Not Yet Identified
The FDA routinely updates its Outbreak Investigation Table. This week the FDA is tracking the Norovirus outbreak linked to Canadian oysters that have sickened 103 in the United States and 279 in Canada. It is also tracking the Cronobacter outbreak linked to infant formula that has sickened four with two deaths. There are two
More Salmonella illnesses linked to mystery outbreak
Food Safety News reports that another patient has been identified in a Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak that is under investigation by the Food and Drug Administration.
The cause of the outbreak is as yet unknown. The FDA has identified 60 patients. The agency has not reported where the patients live or any other information about them.
Ready-to-Eat (RTE) chicken salad recalled due to plastic pieces
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for a ready-to-eat (RTE) chicken salad product containing a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulated salad dressing that has been recalled by the producer due to concerns that the salad dressing may contain hard plastic. FSIS is issuing
Butterball ground turkey with extraneous blue plastic pieces recalled
Butterball, LLC, a Mount Olive, N.C. establishment, is recalling approximately 14,107 pounds of ground turkey products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically blue plastic, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The ground turkey items were produced on September 28, 2021. The following products are subject to
Two foods the Queen does not eat and the Six foods I do not
Recently I saw an article that reported that the Queen avoids both rare meat and seafoods. Well, we at least have that in common.
A few years ago I was interviewed by Business Insider and we wound up taking about the foods that I avoid. Here is the interview.
Bill Marler is the most prominent
SunTree Snack Foods recalls Cashews with Glass
The recall was initiated after a customer notified the firm that the product contained glass pieces.
Committed to quality and out of an abundance of caution, SunTree Snack Foods LLC, of Phoenix, AZ, is recalling specific items of Happy Belly, Prince & Spring, Harris Teeter, and HEB brand names that contain specific lots of cashews
Food Poisoning Outbreak hits Homer, Alaska Hospital
Alaska Health and Social Services announced via Facebook:
Please be aware that a suspected outbreak of foodborne illness is being investigated in Homer. If anyone is experiencing foodborne illness symptoms (gastrointestinal illness) and has been in the Homer area in the past week, they are encouraged to fill out a DHSS foodborne illness survey via
Excuse me, there is a lizard in my salad!
Food Safety News is reporting that local media in the Seattle area are reporting the a woman found a dead lizard in her restaurant salad.
Maniza Qureshi reported the incident to Seattle & King County Public Health after the shocking experience with a lunchtime salad from an Evergreens restaurant.
“No other complaints of foreign items