Public Health Seattle King County has announced a hepatitis A outbreak that has sickened at least 6 people, all adults, in the Snoqualmie Valley. Although there is no official word about the source yet, a prime suspect in any cluster of hepatitis A illness is that it was caused by contaminated food.
If so, lawsuits
SEATTLE–An outbreak of Hepatitis A in the Snoqualmie Valley has county health authorities asking people to get vaccinated. Matias Valenzuela, public education coordinator with the county’s public health department, said his office has responded to six confirmed cases in the Valley, all in adults. No word yet on the source of the outbreak.
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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
A recall is just a recall unless its an outbreak. We thought we were dealing with “just a recall” last year when Veron Foods, a Louisianna company, recalled 500,000 pounds of head cheese products due to potential contamination by Listeria monocytogenes. 7 months later, the CDC has announced that the Veron recall was more than
The E. coli O157:H7 bologna outbreak linked to Palmyra Bologna Company’s bologna products is not the first outbreak associated with the company’s products. Thanks to quick research at www.outbreakdatabase.com, Palmyra bologna caused a Salmonella outbreak in 1995. Here are the details.
In 1995, an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium occurred in south central Pennsylvania and
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
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
The Orange County Health Department is investigating the possibility that a number of Silver Lake Fire Department volunteer firefighters contracted food poisoning during a banquet they attended over the weekend.
About 120 people were at the catering hall where the meal was held on Saturday night and a number of them went to the doctor
“A bid to limit retail liability for tainted food” appeared on Food Safety News this morning, profiling Colorado House Bill 11-1190, which was recently introduced by state Rep. Jerry Sonnenberg and state Sen. Cheri Jahn. The bill seeks to change Colorado law by absolving food retailers, as opposed to manufacturers, of liability in