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Midwest Salmonella Outbreak Due To Sprouts Becoming All Too Common

Posted on March 19, 2009
  The outbreak that's sickened people in four Midwest states has been tied to SunSprout Enterprises' sprouts that were distributed to grocery stores and restaurants.  The Omaha company "voluntarily" recalled its products. Nebraska health officials say 84 cases of Salmonella saintpaul have been confirmed near Omaha, Lincoln and Kearney...

President Obama on Food Safety - Full Radio Address Video

Posted on March 14, 2009

USDA Okays First E Coli 0157:H7 Vaccine In United States

Posted on March 13, 2009
A Brave New World is upon us. A vaccine for E. coli 0157:H7 is now available for use in cattle in the United States. At least two other companies, including one with product already available in Canada, are also seeking approval from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to sell their vaccines...

Stephanie Smith remains in a wheelchair, fighting to walk -- and dance -- once again - She ate an E. coli - tainted hamburger

Posted on March 11, 2009
From the Saint Cloud Times - Stephanie Smith of Cold Spring was a 20-year-old dance instructor when she contracted E. coli after eating a hamburger at a family barbecue in 2007.  She also developed HUS and spent nine months in the hospital, including two months in a medically induced coma to prevent seizures...

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Metallica lead singer James Hetfield was treated for food poisoning

Posted on March 11, 2009
Metallica lead singer James Hetfield was treated at Karolinksa Hospital in Stockholm for a suspected case of food poisoning, The Local said Monday.  Hetfield reportedly fell ill after eating a takeout Indian meal during the weekend. He was hospitalized Sunday, but released several hours later...

Salmonella Sprouts Linked to Dozens Ill in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Kansas

Posted on March 06, 2009
Today, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) confirmed five cases of salmonella that might be linked to sprouts from a Nebraska company.  KDHE said it had identified a possible link to sprouts from SunSprout Enterprises, Inc. of Omaha, Neb...

China Enacts Food-Safety Laws - Is the US Next?

Posted on March 01, 2009

Salmonella Outbreak in Douglas County Nebraska Not Linked to Peanut Butter

Posted on February 28, 2009

Other Kellogg Salmonella Peanut Butter Victims Speak Out - Billie, Shannon and Payton Rector

Posted on February 28, 2009

666 persons infected with Salmonella Typhimurium Peanut Butter have been reported from 45 states

Posted on February 25, 2009
CDC now report that 666 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 45 states (added Montana). The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (2), Arizona (13), Arkansas (6), California (76), Colorado (17), Connecticut (10), Florida (1), Georgia (6), Hawaii (6), Idaho (17), Illinois (10), Indiana (10), Iowa (3), Kansas (2), Kentucky (3), Maine (5), Maryland (10), Massachusetts (48), Michigan (36), Minnesota (42), Missouri (15), Mississippi (7), Montana (2), Nebraska (1), New Hampshire (13), New Jersey (23), New York (30), Nevada (6), North Carolina (6), North Dakota (17), Ohio (94), Oklahoma (4), Oregon (12), Pennsylvania (19), Rhode Island (5), South Dakota (4), Tennessee (14), Texas (10), Utah (6), Vermont (4), Virginia (21), Washington (21), West Virginia (2), Wisconsin (5), and Wyoming (2)...

70 Ill After Eating Steriod Tainted Pork In China

Posted on February 23, 2009
State media in China is reporting that at least 70 people have fallen ill after eating pork treated with the steroid clenbuterol, which is used to prevent animals from gaining fat, BBC News reported.  The China Daily said on Monday that the people involved suffered from stomach pains and diarrhea after eating the tainted pork in southern China's Guangdong province over the past few days, with three victims still in hospital...

China Takes Food Poisoning Too Seriously?

Posted on February 23, 2009
Authorities in China say two men have been sentenced to death in a food-poisoning case that killed two diners and sickened 61 others in Shenzhen City.  Ke Bizhi and Wang Ying were convicted of adding poison to food at a snack bar last February, Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, reported Monday...

Huge Peanut Butter Recall Expansion--All PCA-Produced Product From January 2007 Forward

Posted on January 28, 2009
Well, it's official.  This peanut butter Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak is out of control.  I can barely keep up with the fast and furious announcements coming from the various state and national health agencies, and the recalls from food product manufacturers whose products were made with the implicated peanut butter...

Girl Scout Cookies Safe! "Sweet Success Peanut Butter Cookie Dough?"...Not So Much

Posted on January 20, 2009
Hey.  Did you just hear that?  It was the collective sigh of relief  from all the cookie fiends out there like me who are addicted to those delicious, sweet morsels of goodness known as Do-si-dos and Tagalongs Girl Scout Cookies...

FDA Announcement to the Public: Don't Eat Peanut Butter

Posted on January 17, 2009
In a stunning and far-reaching announcement today regarding the ongoing investigation into a nationwide Salmonella outbreak, the FDA urged the public to avoid eating ANY products containing peanut butter.  In its own words, "because identification of products subject to recall is continuing, the FDA urges consumers to postpone eating peanut butter-containing products until further information becomes available about which products may be affected...

The CDC and FDA Updates on the Nationwide Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Peanut Corp of America

Posted on January 16, 2009
Today the CDC and FDA updated their websites to reflect new information on the continuing (and widening) Salmonella outbreak that has thus far caused a confirmed 453 Salmonella Typhimurium infections in citizens of 43 states, and has led to at least five deaths...

Conneticut Dept of Health Confirms Salmonella Found in UNOPENED Jar of King Nut Peanut Butter

Posted on January 16, 2009
Food inspectors conducting recall effectiveness checks in the state this week in response to the nationwide salmonella outbreak linked to King Nut peanut butter have confirmed the presence of salmonella bacteria in an unopened five-pound tub of peanut butter found at a Connecticut food distributor, Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell, Jr...

Nationwide Salmonella Outbreak Source Expanding?

Posted on January 15, 2009
As Federal, State, and Local health agencies continue their investigations into the nationwide Salmonella outbreak recently linked to King Nut brand peanut butter, other products containing the implicated peanut butter may also be linked to the outbreak...

Salmonella to do list - one down, eight to go

Posted on January 14, 2009
As of a few moments ago, 15 more cases of salmonella poisoning in the now nationwide outbreak have been reported, bringing the total to 425 in 43 state with 3 deaths. Nearly 18% of the victims have been hospitalized. Praise to Peanut Corporation Corporation for the Recall...

Minnesota DOH Confirms: King Nut Peanut Butter Salmonella Is A Genetic Match to National Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on January 12, 2009
The Minnesota Departments of Agriculture and Health today announced that laboratory analyses have confirmed a genetic match between the strains of Salmonella bacteria found in a container of King Nut brand creamy peanut butter and the strains of bacteria associated with 30 illnesses in Minnesota and nearly 400 illnesses around the country...

People get Salmonella Typhimurium from eating Peanut Butter, Minnesota points the finger at King Nut, who points the finger at Peanut Corporation of America, so what is next?

Posted on January 12, 2009
Minnesota Department of Health announces late Friday that the have linked thirty illnesses ( and a death) to the consumption of King Nut Peanut Butter (and Parnell's Pride?). There is nothing on the CDC website or other State Health Department sites naming names - yet...

Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak Source - King Nut Peanut Butter

Posted on January 09, 2009
Here we go again!  Peanut butter is once again being implicated as the source of a major samlonella outbreak in the US (Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter were the implicated sources in the previous outbreak). The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) and the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) today issued a product advisory after MDA’s preliminary laboratory testing indicated the presence of Salmonella bacteria in a 5-pound container of King Nut brand creamy peanut butter...

Important Announcement Expected on the Salmonella Typhimurium Oubtreak

Posted on January 09, 2009
As I'm sure many of you are aware who follow food poisoning in the news, there is a huge nationwide Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak currently being investigated by the CDC and many state and local health departments.  To date there has been no identification of the source of this outbreak, but I have just learned that an announcement is expected shortly...

Melamine Found In More Baby Formula

Posted on January 08, 2009
In an article published by AP writer, Martha Mendoza, she reports that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has found melamine and a byproduct, cyanuric acid, in four of 89 containers of infant formula made in the United States, doubling previously reported positive results...

Top Ten Food Safety Challenges for 2009 - Bill Marler Style

Posted on December 30, 2008
As we're all getting ready to ring in the New Year, our thoughts usually turn to the resolutions for change we'd like to see in 2009.  And since this is a blog about food safety, what better way to do that than by highlighting Bill Marler's Top 10 excellent food safety challenges for us to meet head on in 2009...

Tis The Season For Food Poisoning - Even Health Department's Are Not Immune

Posted on December 29, 2008
It turns out none of us are invulnerable from food poisoning illnesses, not even health department employees.  That's the hard lesson learned by the folks at the Lawrence County Health Department in Illinois following their holiday party this month...

Melamine-Tainted Foods Still On US Shelves!

Posted on December 23, 2008
Winter has certainly come to the Northwest!  Here in Seattle we have over a foot of snow and the temperature has yet to crack freezing level in the past week and a half.  Wherever you are, now is the time of year to bundle up, take a walk, and sip on a nice cup of steaming hot cocoa...

Musical Tribute to Food Safety

Posted on December 18, 2008
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Musical Tribute to Food Safety

Posted on December 18, 2008
Carl Winters and the other great folks at UC Davis's Food Science and Technology Department have put together an educational, and hilarious, musical tribute to food safety.  So head on over to their website and before you know it you'll be dancing to soon-to-be-classics like, We Are the Microbes or Who Left the Food Out!  

Foodborne Bacteria Suicide

Posted on December 16, 2008
As an initial matter, I'm a lawyer, not a scientist.  This recent article from Science Daily.com is therefore a bit - OK, a lot - over my head, but the short version is researchers at the University of Illinois and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst have found a way to fool a bacteria’s evolutionary machinery into programming its own death...

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