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Food Poison Blog

Surveillance and analysis on food poison news and outbreaks.
By Marler Clark

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 12:57:03

Sound advice to companies in crisis

Posted on October 21, 2010
Sangar Fresh Cut Produce is in the midst of a public relations nightmare, now that everybody who pays attention to food safety events at all knows that its at the center of a listeria outbreak that may have killed four people. Sangar's brass is taking a pretty brash stance on its implication in the outbreak, saying that the State of Texas got it wrong when it generated positive listeria test results from samples of Sangar celery, prompting the closure of Sangar's plant and the recall of Sangar products produced since January...

CDC: Salmonella illnesses in egg outbreak top 1,800

Posted on October 20, 2010
Wright County Egg and Hillandale Farms eggs have caused over 1800 Salmonella illnesses nationally, according to the CDC's latest update, released today. Significantly, we have still not yet reached the end of the reporting period for this outbreak, which the CDC notes specifically in the summary below...

FSIS Announces New Video Monitoring Guidelines

Posted on October 20, 2010
On October 14, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced new guidelines for in-plant video monitoring at meat and poultry establishments. The new guidelines are drafted with the stated intent of strengthening both food safety and humane animal handling practices...

Barbecue pork products recalled due to Salmonella contamination

Posted on October 20, 2010
The Murphy House, a Louisburg, N.C. establishment, is recalling approximately 4,920 pounds of ready-to-eat (RTE) pork barbeque products that may be contaminated with Salmonella, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today...

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Another food recall: Sangar (from Texas) Fresh Cut Produce

Posted on October 20, 2010
The Texas Department of State Health Services today ordered Sangar Fresh Cut Produce in San Antonio to stop processing food and recall all products shipped from the plant since January. Ironic timing for this recall. One of our lawyers or epidemiologist, Patti Waller, is speaking to health departments and industry nationally about half the days every year...

Wright County Egg receives warning letter; Hillandale Farms cleared to resume shipping

Posted on October 19, 2010
Today, the FDA released its warning letter to Wright County Egg in the wake of hte massive recall and outbreak that caused over 1,600 confirmed Salmonella illnesses nationally. Hillandale Farms, which was also implicated in both the outbreak and recall, was cleared today to resume shipping shell eggs...

Legal Battle in Ontario Centers on E. coli Incubation Period

Posted on October 19, 2010
An appeals court in Ontario, Canada is reviewing the 2009 conviction of two men for "serving food unfit for human consumption." A central question on appeal is the incubation period for E. coli O157:H7 infections - in other words, how long after consumption of contaminated food someone falls ill...

Pats Exotic Beverages juice recall

Posted on October 18, 2010
New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker today alerted consumers that Pats Exotic Beverages Inc., located at 2919 Tiemann Avenue, Bronx, New York, is recalling all packages of "Carrot Juice" beverage, "Carrot Beet" beverage, "Carrot Lime" beverage and "Cucumber" beverage, because the products have been determined to be inadequately processed and may contain food borne pathogens...

Twenty Years of Salmonella from the Lawyers and Attorneys at Marler Clark

Posted on October 17, 2010
I think there are two place where you can find information on Salmonella outbreaks that have happened in the United States in the last 20 years. One is www.outbreakdatabase.com and the other is below. Salmonella infection occurs when the bacteria are ingested, typically from food derived from infected food-animals, but it can also occur by ingesting the feces of an infected animal or person...

Twenty years of E. coli from the Lawyers and Attorneys at Marler Clark

Posted on October 17, 2010
I think there are two place where you can find information on E. coli outbreaks that have happened in the United States in the last 20 years. One is www.outbreakdatabase.com and the other is below. While the majority of foodborne illness outbreaks associated with E...

Irritable Bowel Syndrome and Post-Infectious IBS

Posted on October 16, 2010
We are just about done with content for the new, very comprehensive website on Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). IBS can be triggered by an incident of foodpoisoning, and we commonly see post infectious IBS in many clients involved in Salmonella, E...

Here's to putting Marler Clark out of business

Posted on October 15, 2010
Accomplished food safety reporter from the New York Times William Neuman published an article today on a new wash developed by Fresh Express (industry leader in food safety and R & D) that is as many as 750 times as effective as chlorine solutions currently used at killing E...

Proposed Legislation in New York on Salmonella Vaccinations in Chickens

Posted on October 15, 2010
In the aftermath of the recall of over half a billion eggs, two New York state lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require any eggs sold in the state to come from chickens that have been vaccinated against salmonella. New York Assemblyman Brian Kavanagh and Sen...

Jeff Benedict Discusses New Book on Jack In The Box's 1993 E. coli Outbreak

Posted on October 15, 2010
Today Cattle Network published the latest from freelance writer Chuck Jolley, and it is definitely worth a read. Chuck recently chatted with author Jeff Benedict on his newest book that he has spent the last three years researching. The book delves into the 1993 Jack In The Box E...

Update on Clearview High School outbreak

Posted on October 14, 2010
Lorain County General Health District Health Commissioner Kenneth G. Pearce announced yesterday that Ohio Department of Health (ODH) laboratory testing has confirmed 8 cases of Salmonella B from individuals who attended a recent Clearview High School function...

New study on post-infectious IBS and other functional gastrointestinal disorders

Posted on October 14, 2010
The American Journal of Gastroenterology published a new study on the prevelance of functional gastrointestinal disorders after episodes of infectious gastroenteritis (in some cases, after foodpoisoning, or infection by bugs like E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Shigella)...

Bill Marler to deliver keynote address at 30th annual Food Microbiology Symposium at UW-River Falls

Posted on October 13, 2010
The 30th annual Food Microbiology Symposium begins this Sunday and last through Wednesday, October 17. The event will be held at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls. Topics will include foodborne pathogen detection, regulatory and industry trends, laboratory methods validation, biosensors and other trends in food safety...

Two Clearview High School Students Confirmed with Salmonella

Posted on October 13, 2010
As previously reported on this site, roughly 100 students from Clearview High School in Lorain, Ohio, were ill during the week of October 3. There had also been reports that Lorain County was tracking reports of ill persons testing positive for Salmonella...

Salmonella can be a devastating bug

Posted on October 13, 2010
Salmonella truly can be a devastating bug. Deadly, in some cases, and life-threatening in some other ones. Barb Pruitt was infected by Salmonella typhimurium in August 2009. She had four feet of her small intestine removed a few days later, which had become so necrotic (dead) as a result of her Salmonella infection, that it was no longer functional and probably would have killed her if it had been left in (not to mention some critical, first rate medical care)...

With companies like this, who needs enemies?

Posted on October 12, 2010
Clostridium botulinum is a devastating, spore forming rod shaped bacterium that, when allowed to germinate due to improper food-handling practices, produces awful, life-threatening symptoms that occur because of the toxin's ability to cause flaccid paralysis of major body systems...

Timely study on non-O157 E. coli

Posted on October 12, 2010
The archives of internal medicine released the results of a study based on the E. coli O111 outbreak that occurred in Locust Grover, Oklahoma in August 2008, sickening hundreds of people. The outbreak was linked to a restaurant called the Country Cottage...

Salmonella Outbreak in Ohio? Link to High School?

Posted on October 09, 2010
Health officials in northern Ohio are investigating whether there is a link between the recent confirmation of three Salmonella infections in Lorain County and a high number of absences at Clearview High School earlier this week. According to this report, Ken Pearce, Lorain County health commissioner indicated that: "the three cases showed up in a database, two children — ages 15 and 17 — and one adult, but as of last night, there was no connection to the school...

Alfalfa sprouts recall by Living Foods, Inc. due to potential Salmonella contamination

Posted on October 08, 2010
AP reports that a Michigan company is recalling bulk and retail-size packages of alfalfa sprouts because they might be contaminated with salmonella. Living Foods, Inc. of Ionia said Thursday that one package of the sprouts tested positive for salmonella...

Club Monte Carlo outbreak: Macomb County, Michigan

Posted on October 08, 2010
An outbreak at Club Monte Carlo in Macomb County, Michigan has sickened a number of patrons. There is no report yet what bug is responsible for the outbreak, nor how many sick people there are. Maureen Feighan of the Detroit News reports: Health Department Director Steven Gold said the department was contacted Tuesday by people who attended functions at Club Monte Carlo on Van Dyke Saturday and Sunday and later got sick with gastrointestinal symptoms...

Hinerwadel's campylobacter outbreak swells to 60

Posted on October 08, 2010
The Onondaga County Health Department now says 60 people have been infected by Campylobacter after eating raw clams served at an event at Hinerwadel's Grove in North Syracuse. The Health Department says so far, all of the illnesses have been linked to a clambake that occurred on September 15th for the CNY Builders Exchange...

Hamilton Corner Meat Market Recalls Ground Beef, Turkey and Ham Due to E. coli O157:H7 Risk

Posted on October 08, 2010
New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker today alerted consumers that Hamilton Corner Meat Market Inc., located at 1 Hamilton Place, New York, New York, is recalling all packages of in-store ground beef, in-store sliced deli turkey and in-store sliced deli ham sold on September 29, 2010, due to the presence of E...

More concern over Mamey fruit pulp products

Posted on October 08, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has warned consumers not to eat mamey-flavored ice cream sold under the La Nuestra brand because of potential health risks. Montalvan's Sales Inc. of Ontario, California, which sells the brand, has voluntarily recalled the product, the FDA said...

Some sense in Wyoming

Posted on October 07, 2010
The Sue Wallis-lead "Food Freedom Act" in Wyoming is really more than a little concerning considering the depth of all the anti-government, natural human rights rhetoric being espoused in support of it. Is this really even about public safety and health anymore? Seems more like an agenda than anything, and bad policy...

Salmonella Outbreak - Marler Clark Offers A Way for Egg Companies to Express Their Sorrow

Posted on October 06, 2010
Salmonella Egg Outbreak Sickened Thousands Nationwide At the Congressional Hearing into the Salmonella Egg outbreak, the owners of Wright County Egg expressed their sorrow for the thousands of Salmonella illnesses tied to their products. They met with victims and said they had been praying for the recovery of those sickened...

Internalization of E. coli on leafy greens

Posted on October 06, 2010
The Journal of Food Protection, Vol. 73, No. 10, 2010 recently published a study that sought to investigate the fate of E. coli O157:H7 applied to the surface of lettuce leaves that had either been exposed to insects that commonly infest leafy greens or that had been injured by physical abrasion...

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