Managing EditorMary Rothschild has had an extensive career in Seattle-area journalism as a reporter for 17 years at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and as an assistant metro editor at the Seattle Times for 12 years. She was also an assignment editor at KING-TV in Seattle, city editor at the Eastside Journal in Bellevue and an assistant metro editor at the News Tribune in Tacoma. She now lives in Port Townsend, WA, where she supports the local Farmers Market, the Jefferson County Land Trust’s efforts to preserve farmland and tries to keep the deer out of her own vegetable patch.
Raw meat and poultry products are sometimes marinated or injected with water, salt water, flavorings and other additives, but consumers may not know that unless they read the fine print on the package.Now the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) wants such information disclosed conspicuously on the label.Under a new rule proposed Thursday, any "injections, marinades,...
Salmonella-contaminated frogs from a breeder in Madera County, CA have now made 241 people throughout the United States sick, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. The CDC said Blue Lobster Farms had agreed in April to stop shipping African dwarf frogs, but resumed distribution in early June.In its latest update on the widespread outbreak involving the pet frogs, the...
Scientists in the European Union have found that a high proportion of Campylobacter in humans is resistant to ciprofloxacin, an antibiotic critically important for the treatment of human diseases.That is a key finding of a report released jointly last week by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) based on 2009...
Health officials are warning people not to drink unpasteurized milk from Tucker Adkins Dairy of York, South Carolina, because as many as eight cases of Campylobacter infection in neighboring North Carolina have been linked to the farm's raw milk.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Saturday that the outbreak includes three confirmed cases and five probable cases of campylobacteriosis,...
Health authorities in Wyoming and Yuma County, AZ are reporting sharp increases in the number of Campylobacter infections and, in the case of Yuma County, possibly related increases of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS).Campylobacteriosis is a common diarrheal infection that is caused by ingesting fecal bacteria, often from contaminated food or water but also from exposure to farm animals and certain pets....
After four students in Germany were sickened by E. coli O104:H4 infections, preliminary tests indicated that 22 out of 30 children at the same school were also infected with the outbreak strain but had no symptoms, health officials reported this week.Asymptomatic E. coli O104:H4 infection was also found in three kitchen workers at the school in Kreis Paderborn, four child...
Eighteen months ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) signaled that the meat industry's 2005 request to use low-dose irradiation as a processing aid to reduce unwanted microbes -- and not have to label the meat as irradiated -- was not getting much traction.Late last week, FSIS finally issued its official decision on the petition:...
The first fatality in the United States associated with the outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Europe was an Arizona man who had traveled to Germany, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed Friday.The CDC had been investigating whether the man's death in June was related to the outbreak. In its update on the investigation, the CDC said the sprouts-linked...
With four new cases confirmed, 25 people have now been infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella linked to sprouts grown in Idaho, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.The CDC said that as of July 5 there were three new cases of Salmonella infection in Montana, for a total of 10 case patients, and one more in...
There's good reason the label says "keep refrigerated." And also good reason not to taste food to see if it's gone bad.Two people found that out the hard way, and became very sick with botulism after tasting potato soup left unrefrigerated for weeks, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relates in its current Weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report.In "Notes...
The outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Europe struck mostly women and men in their prime who thought they were eating healthy food, the director of the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) noted in a speech July 5 in Sopot, Poland."Hundreds of them have been damaged for the rest of their lives, suffering kidney failure, brain damage...
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) reported Monday that the European toll in the outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Germany and France linked to sprouts had risen to 4,173 illnesses and 49 deaths. Those numbers include 892 hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) cases, according to ECDC.A single lot of fenugreek seeds -- lot number 48088 -- from an...
It's become a tradition at Food Safety News to take a break on major holidays by hosting a virtual potluck or picnic, held entirely online for our far-flung staff. So we're celebrating Independence Day 2011 by once again sharing our dishes - Mary's farmers' market veg dip, Cookson's garden-fresh potato salad, Suzanne's Aunt Sandy's spinach and strawberry salad, Helena's apricot-rosemary halibut, Andy's Everyman's...
It's become a tradition at Food Safety News to take a break on major holidays by hosting a virtual potluck or picnic, held entirely online for our far-flung staff. So we're celebrating Independence Day 2011 by once again sharing our dishes - Mary's farmers' market veg dip, Cookson's garden-fresh potato salad, Suzanne's Aunt Sandy's spinach and strawberry salad, Helena's apricot-rosemary halibut,...
The Idaho sprouts grower who put her foot down, refusing to announce a recall after public health authorities said her sprouts were likely making people sick, relented on Friday.Nadine Scharf of Evergreen Sprouts, based in Moyie Springs, Idaho, agreed to recall alfalfa sprouts and spicy sprouts that have been implicated in a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened 21 people in...
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