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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

Raw milk causes Minnesota toddler to be hospitalized with HUS

Posted on May 27, 2010
In the Minnesota E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to raw milk from the Hartman Dairy Farm, state health officials have identified four outbreak cases, all of whom were hospitalized for treatment of their injuries. Sadly, as Mike Hughlett reported in the Minnesota Star Tribune today, an area toddler, one of the victims, remains hospitalized, having developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS)...

E. coli O157:H7 and Raw Milk AGAIN - Illnesses in Washington State

Posted on May 27, 2010
The Washington State Department of Health (WDOH) announced today that two recent E. coli O157:H7 infections are connected to the consumption of "raw" unpasteurized milk. According to WDOH "The two cases confirmed this month bring the count of infections this year associated with one Bellingham dairy to eight...

organicgirl Baby Spinach Recalled For Salmonella Risk

Posted on May 27, 2010
Organicgirl Produce announced a recall today of its 10 oz organicgirl Baby Spinach with an expiration Date of May 22 and Product Code 11A061167 because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. The product was distributed in sold in 6 states, including: Alabama, North Carolina, Oregon, Wisconsin, Arizona and California...

Raw Milk: an Issue of Safety or Freedom?

Posted on May 27, 2010
The following article--topical, given recent raw milk events--has appeared on the National Law Review and at foodsafetynews.com. One need not look far to grasp the scope of this country's food safety problems, and the personal devastation that can happen when somebody is infected by E...

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Food Poisoning Cost 3 Billion Annually - Salmonella and E. coli O157:H7 Alone

Posted on May 26, 2010
The USDA, on a new website on May 13, unveiled a cost of food poisoning calculator. To date, the only two pathogens with reported yearly costs estimates are Salmonella and E. coli O157:H7. The combined cost estimate for those two? In excess of $3 Billion...

Sprouts link to Butte County, California salmonella illnesses?

Posted on May 26, 2010
Sprouts from Caldwell Fresh Foods, of Maywood, California, have caused approximately 22 illnesses in multiple states, including 11 in its home state of California. The outbreak strain of Salmonella is Salmonella Newport, and the implicated sprouts, which were widely distributed to retailers nationally, have been recalled...

Chef at Miami Area Chili's Worked While Ill With Typhoid Fever

Posted on May 26, 2010
A cook at a popular Bayside, Florida Chili's Grill and Bar apparently worked for a period of time while ill and contagious with Salmonella typhi, the strain that causes typhoid fever, reported NBC Miami today. While no patron illnesses have been reported thus far, hundreds of people may have consumed food prepared by the cook while ill...

2010 Raw Milk Scoreboard - E. coli, Salmonella, and Campylobacter

Posted on May 26, 2010
Still not half way through 2010, and we have already seen at least six outbreaks of illness, involving three different dangerous pathogens, tied to raw milk. There have been outbreaks in Minnesota, Nevada, Utah (2), and Pennsylvania, as well as a single outbreak that included illnesses in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois...

E. coli illnesses traced to raw milk from Gibbon dairy farm

Posted on May 26, 2010
Consumers warned against consuming unpasteurized dairy products State health officials have linked three cases of E. coli O157:H7 illness with raw milk from a dairy farm in Gibbon, Minn. The Minnesota Department of Health urges anyone who may have recently purchased milk from the Hartmann Dairy Farm, also known as M...

E. coli O145 outbreak linked to romaine lettuce: a summary

Posted on May 26, 2010
The April 2010 E. coli O145 outbreak linked to Freshway romaine lettuce grown by Andrew Smith Company sickened 33 people (26 confirmed and 7 probable cases) from 5 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state with this strain is: MI (11 confirmed and 2 probable), NY (5 confirmed and 2 probable), OH (8 confirmed and 3 probable), PA (1 confirmed), and TN (1 confirmed)...

Study of E. coli O157:H7 in California Wildlife Set to be Released

Posted on May 25, 2010
Following the completion of a "massive field study" researchers have reported the presence, albeit uncommon, of E. coli O157:H7 in wildlife in California's central coast region. The findings were reported yesterday at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego...

Lettuce E. coli outbreak prompts more calls for reform

Posted on May 25, 2010
April's E. coli O145 outbreak linked to Freshway romaine lettuce caused a lot of suffering, but it may also be a necessary impetus for change . . . or at least a vote, by the Senate, on S 510 a/k/a "Food Safety Modernization Act." Congressman John Dingell, D-Mich...

Recent foodpoisoning events

Posted on May 25, 2010
Caldwell sprouts salmonella outbreak: Sprouts from Caldwell Fresh Foods, of Maywood, California, have caused approximately 22 illnesses in multiple states, including 11 in its home state of California. The outbreak strain of Salmonella is Salmonella Newport, and the implicated sprouts, which were widely distributed to retailers nationally, have been recalled...

Athens Salmonella Outbreak case count: 41 and growing?

Posted on May 25, 2010
The salmonella outbreak at an "Athens Ohio restaurant" is reported to be Casa Lopez on East State Street. We represent several people who ate at Casa Lopez and were sickened by Salmonella in early May. WSAZ reported today that at least 41 people have "come down with salmonella poisoning after eating at [Casa Lopez," and that health officials are waiting on test results from 15 other cases...

Los Dos Amigos Salmonella Outbreak: how many Roseburg residents ill?

Posted on May 24, 2010
Los Dos Amigos, a mexican restaurant in Roseburg, Oregon, was the site of a large salmonella outbreak in April. Douglas County health officials report that at least 30 people suffered culture-confirmed salmonella foodpoisoning illnesses, and that cross-contamination was probably a cause of the outbreak...

Another lettuce recall (Fresh Express and Salmonella), but more questions than answers

Posted on May 24, 2010
Fresh Express lettuce is being recalled due to Salmonella contamination. This is on the heels of an E. coli O145 outbreak associated with romaine lettuce from Freshway Foods. And it's on the heels, yet again, of Bill Marler exposing a food-safety problem that should have been disclosed by industry or FDA days ago...

FDA's guidance to the sprouts industry

Posted on May 22, 2010
Today's announcement of another salmonella outbreak linked to sprouts will inevitably end in litigation on behalf of outbreak victims, the focus of which will largely be on what Caldwell Fresh Foods did, or did not, do with regard to pathogen reduction (i...

Sprouts salmonella outbreak: California has most ill people . . . particularly Butte County?

Posted on May 22, 2010
Sprouts from Caldwell Fresh Foods, of Maywood, California, have caused approximately 22 illnesses in multiple states, including 11 in its home state of California. The outbreak strain of Salmonella is Salmonella Newport, and the implicated sprouts, which were widely distributed to retailers nationally, have been recalled...

Public Pools and Waterborne Illnesses

Posted on May 21, 2010
Public health violations were reported in more than 10% of public pool inspections in the United States in 2008, as reported by Pediatric Supersite today. Taken from published findings in the , data from 1997 to 2006 indicated that gastroenteritis was the most frequently reported type of recreational water illness...

Salmonella Outbreak in Alfalfa Sprouts - 23 Sick in 10 States

Posted on May 21, 2010
At least 23 persons have been sickened in 10 states in an another outbreak of Salmonella linked to alfalfa sprouts, according to the Oregonian. Included in the ill was a baby boy in Multnomah County, Oregon, who was hospitalized in May, but has reportedly recovered...

Multi-state sprouts outbreak: source of seeds?

Posted on May 21, 2010
The sprout salmonella outbreak in Multnomah, County Oregon has sickened at least 23 people in 10 states. In February, March, and April 2009, a large salmonella outbreak linked to sprouts sickened hundreds of people in the midwest (mostly in Nebraska, but also in Minnesota, South Dakota, Michigan, Iowa, and Missouri too), and was ultimately traced to Caudill Seed company, a common distributor of seeds to many sprouters nationally...

Greene County, Ohio Salmonella Outbreak Investigation Continues

Posted on May 21, 2010
The outbreak of Salmonella among 4 Greene County, Ohio women within just a few days of each other was the first clue that something was amiss, according to an article in today's Dayton Daily News. 'We don't get four at one time,' GCCHD Health Commissioner Mark McDonnell said...

Sprout outbreaks past

Posted on May 21, 2010
Sprouts have been called one of ten riskiest foods. They have a known, and well recognized, association with bacterial pathogens, frequently salmonella, E. coli O157, and listeria monocytogenes. Regardless of whether sprouts have been accurately designated one of the riskiest foods you can eat, they have undoubtedly caused their fair share of foodpoisoning illnesses and outbreaks...

Salmonella sprouts outbreak: victims in 10 states

Posted on May 21, 2010
Sprouts from a Caldwell Fresh Foods, a California company, have been recalled after sickening 24 people with Salmonella. According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 11 people were sickened in California, two were sickened in Nevada and two were sickened in Wisconsin...

Freshway E. coli O145 Romaine Lettuce linked to 33 illnesses in Michigan, New York, Ohio, Tennessee and Pennsylvania

Posted on May 21, 2010
The CDC reports this evening that as of May 20, 2010, a total of 26 confirmed and 7 probable cases related to this outbreak have been reported from 5 states since March 1, 2010. The number of ill persons identified in each state with this strain is: MI (11 confirmed and 2 probable), NY (5 confirmed and 2 probable), OH (8 confirmed and 3 probable), PA (1 confirmed), and TN (1 confirmed)...

Food Poisoning May Rise With Global Warming

Posted on May 20, 2010
Incidences of food poisoning are likely to rise with increased global temperatures, according to a report from the WHO and Malta's Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Unit. According to the report, a study on the health effects of climate change in the Maltese islands warns that rising temperatures increase the likelihood of food-borne diseases like salmonella...

Montclair ground beef E. coli O157:H7 recall update

Posted on May 20, 2010
The USDA-FSIS has updated the information about Montclair Meat Co's 53,000 pound ground beef recall due to potential E. coli O157:H7 contamination. The original recall occurred on May 15, 2010, and FSIS's recall announcement indicated that the product had been distributed to Los Angeles area retailers...

Roseburg Salmonella lawsuit in Los Dos Amigos Outbreak

Posted on May 20, 2010
Yesterday, we filed suit on behalf of a Roseburg resident sickened in the Los Dos Amigos outbreak. We represent a number of other people sickened in the outbreak, all of whom are eager to get to the bottom of what happened. To recap, the Douglas County Health Department recently stated that there have been 30 confirmed cases of salmonella illness tied to the restaurant in mid-April...

3 year BC salmonella outbreak linked to dirty shell eggs

Posted on May 20, 2010
It's a sorry state of affairs when restaurants and food retailers cut corners to cut costs, and end up poisoning the people that they profit from. It's even worse when it happens on a large scale, and when hundreds of people get hurt as a result...

Freshway lettuce E. coli outbreak: the "other strain" finally drops

Posted on May 20, 2010
Misti Crane of the Columbus Dispatch reported today that the CDC has identified the "other strain" of E. coli (i.e. not O145) involved in the Freshway romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak. It was E. coli O143:H34. Actually, "involved in the Freshway romaine lettuce E...

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