The U.S. Department of Agriculture will hold a public summit on pre-harvest food safety on November 9 in Washington, DC, Under Secretary of Food Safety Elisabeth Hagen said Wednesday."We're not looking to go on the farm, but we have to sponsor the discussion," Hagen said in her remarks at an Ogilvy food safety event in Washington, DC. "We think we...
A San Diego produce company has recalled one lot of organic grape tomatoes imported from Mexico after a container of the tomatoes, collected in Michigan in a random sample by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, tested positive for Salmonella.Andrew Williamson Fresh Produce said the grape tomatoes were sold under the Limited Edition® and Fresh & Easy labels in 18 U.S. states...
M & P Food Productions, LTD. of Brooklyn, NY is recalling several varieties of frozen Vareniki/Dumplings because the products contain undeclared milk and wheat.People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to these allergens run the risk of illness or serious or potentially fatal allergic reaction if they consume these products.No illnesses related to the recalled products have been reported.The...
Del Monte Fresh Produce announced Tuesday that it had reached "an amicable resolution" with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and an end to an import alert that prevented the company from shipping cantaloupes from a Guatemala farm into the United States.Cantaloupes from that farm had been implicated in a multistate Salmonella Panama outbreak this spring that sickened 20 people,...
A fourth lawsuit has been filed against Colorado-based Jensen Farms, whose Rocky Ford cantaloupe has been identified as the source of a multistate Listeria outbreak.The lawsuit was filed in Canadian County District Court on behalf of the family of an Oklahoma man who died. The suit also names Frontera Produce, a Texas-based company that sold and distributed the Listeria-contaminated Rocky...
A Brooklyn, NY company is recalling breaded butterfly shrimp because a small amount of milk ingredient -- whey -- in the coating is not declared on the label.The recall by Rich Products Corporation involves only one lot of SeaPak Breaded Butterfly Shrimp - Ready to Fry.The recalled shrimp has a net wt. of 22 oz., Product Code 10302, production date...
A sample of ground turkey from Cargill's Sept. 11 recall of 185,000 pounds of ground turkey tested positive for the Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak strain (XbaI PFGE pattern 58/BlnI pattern 76), the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced late Tuesday.In updating the earlier recall notice with confirmation of the outbreak strain, FSIS said lab results from...
K. Heeps, an Allentown, Penn. company, is recalling approximately 5,550 pounds of pureed pork products that may contain small metal fragments, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced Monday.The problem was discovered when two consumers reported finding small metal fragments in the products. The metal pieces may have broken off the blending equipment during cleanup...
Publix Super Markets Monday recalled spinach dip for possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. No illnesses have yet been associated with the recall.The potential contamination was discovered during routine microbial testing conducted by Publix. The recalled 16-ounce containers of prepackaged spinach dip were sold at Publix retail deli departments with a UPC of 41415-00062 and use by date of OCT 10 C1.The...
More than 40 people became ill following a barbecue fundraiser in South Carolina, and the state Department of Health and Environmental Control is now advising that any food purchased at the Sept. 16 and 17 event at York's Grace Covenant Church should be thrown away.All of the people who became ill are reporting the same symptoms, mainly vomiting, diarrhea and...
Oysters from Washington State are being recalled because they may be contaminated with Vibrio parahaemolyticus. The State Health Department Saturday warned that consumers should not eat oysters harvested in the Hood Canal growing area No. 4 between August 30th and September 19th because they could be carrying the bacteria, which causes an illness called vibriosis in humans. Distributors, retailers and restaurants...
A Kansas food processor is recalling fresh cut cantaloupe chunks and fruit medley containing cantaloupe because they may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes bacteria that have caused a multistate outbreak.Carol's Cuts said Friday that it is recalling 594 pounds of the fresh cut melon, which was packaged in 5-pound trays as chunks and as an ingredient in 8-ounce mixed fruit...
Pepperidge Farm is recalling some 13,000 cases of 10.2-ounce boxes of Baked Naturals Sesame Sticks due to the possible presence of small, thin pieces of wire.A small number of consumers have reported minor scrapes in and around the mouth, the company said in a news release. The recalled packages are marked with a yellow 20% More! banner across the top and...
A New York company is recalling smoked herring that was found to be uneviscerated.World Wide Fish Products, located in Bronx, NY was notified of the problem after a New York State Agriculture and Markets Food Inspector took samples of the product during a routine inspection. Analysis by the New York State Food Laboratory confirmed the smoked split herring had not...
The deaths of a Nebraska man in his 80s and a 95-year-old Missouri woman, plus five cases of Listeria infection in Kansas, were confirmed Friday by state health departments, increasing the toll in the multistate outbreak caused by contaminated cantaloupes from Colorado's Jensen Farms. The confirmations bring the total number of people infected with outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes to...
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