The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Johnvince Foods announced a recall on Thursday, September 1, 2011, of some President’s Choice and Reddi Snack walnuts because the products may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. The raw, shelled walnuts products were imported from the United States and later packaged and distributed in Canada. The
Hillandale and Wright County Egg: The Connection Grows
The link between Hillandale and Wright County Egg was made clearer this morning by Mary Clare Jalonick of the Associated Press who reported that both businesses "share suppliers of chickens and feed as well as ties to an Iowa business routinely cited for violating state and federal law."
The company Quality Egg supplies young chickens
Salmonella Enteritidis Egg Recall List Keeps Growing
The list keeps expanding of manufacturers who packaged and sold Wright County eggs, currently the subject of a massive recall related to an ongoing nationwide Salmonella outbreak. Thankfully, we have people like Phyllis Entis over at eFoodAlert.com to help keep up on the ever-expanding list of implicated products being recalled in this debacle. Phyllis
Rocky Mountain Natural Meats Recalls 66,000 Pounds of Bison Meat for E. coli
Just in time for the 4th of July, Rocky Mountain Natural Meats, a Colorado company, is recalling approximately 66,000 pounds of ground and tenderized steak bison products due to possible contamination with E. coli O157:H7, a potentially deadly pathogen.
The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced the recall yesterday after an on-going investigation into
Major Stores Pulling Marie Callender’s Cheesy Chicken and Rice Due to Salmonella Risk
In light of the large recall of Conagra’s Marie Callender’s Cheesy Chicken and Rice Frozen Meals due to its link to at least 30 Salmonella Chester illnesses in 15 states, grocery stores across the country are scouring their freezers to ensure it is pulled off the shelf. Two stores, Grocers Giant Food LLC and Stop & Shop Supermarket
Campbell’s Recalls 15 million Pounds of SpaghettiOs
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FSIS has just announced that Campbell Soup Supply Company, LLC, a Paris, Texas, establishment is recalling approximately 15,000,000 pounds of "SpaghettiOs with Meatballs" canned products due to possible under-processing.
The following products are subject to recall:
14.75-ounce cans of "SpaghettiOs" with Meatballs, bearing the identifying product code "U5" on the bottom of the can.
14.75-ounce cans
Help wanted: time for government to act on food safety
Circumstances have long been ripe for calling all shiga-toxin producing strains of Escherichia coli (E. coli) “adulterants” in our food supply. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, which is the entity that has the regulatory capacity to do just this, currently has in its possession two citizen petitions to take this action. In our
Marler Clark E. coli Study Leads to WinCo Meat Recall
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Seattle Times staff reporter, Maureen O’ Hagen, writes in today’s paper about the role our firm, Marler Clark, played in the recent WinCo Foods meat recall related to potential E. coli O157:H7 contamination. Positive E. coli O157:H7 test results revealed in a study that Marler Clark has commissioned revealed the contamination:
The E. coli came to
Beltex Co. Recalls Beef Trim – E. coli O157:H7
Days after the expansion of Winco’s E. coli O157:H7 ground beef recall, Beltex Co, of Fort Worth, TX, has recalled approximately 135,000 pounds of beef trim products due to E. coli O157:H7. The recall followed an FSIS Food Safety Assessment performed at the establishment. The establishment’s methods for analyzing samples for E. coli O157:H7
Calls for Greater Transparency about Foodpoisoning Recalls and Outbreaks
This morning, Phyllis Entis of eFoodAlert.com posted an interesting article on the Montefiore Cheese Salmonella recall that has occurred in Austrialia, Tazmania, and New Zealand. Ms. Entis’s issue with the conduct of the recall seems to be delays in product testing that revealed the contamination, and dissemination of that critical information to the food-consuming public.