Suzanne Schreck is the Food Safety News Web Producer and a contributing author. She joined Marler Clark LLP as Marketing and Communications Coordinator in 2002 after graduating from Washington State University with a major in Marketing. In this role, Suzanne focused on managing media relations, managing and contributing to the firm’s network of over 30 Websites and blogs, and organizing and promoting the firm’s speakers bureau. After taking some time off to travel, Suzanne rejoined Marler Clark in her present role at Food Safety News and as Communications Director for the law firm in mid-2009.
On behalf of everyone at Food Safety News, please accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused by the outages we experienced during the past 24 hours. Beginning shortly before midnight Eastern Time Monday, and continuing for several hours Tuesday, Food Safety News was not available for technical reasons. Late Monday Amazon rebooted selected Amazon Web Services server instances without providing...
It's become a tradition -- or at least a habit -- for Food Safety News to host virtual potlucks on holidays as a way to share our favorite recipes and love of food, and also to take a little break from writing about the potential risks in what we eat. Always, but especially at Thanksgiving, we're grateful for the...
My cousin's wife introduced our family to this amazing 'salsa' recipe a few years ago, and it's been a hit at every BBQ I've been to since I started bringing it as one of my staples. You can serve it with chips or use it as a coleslaw substitute, as a side dish with almost any type of meat or...
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...
Yesterday Food Safety News was one of many victims of a failure at Amazon Web Services, or "the cloud." What that means for you, our readers, is that our promise to provide timely news coverage of all food safety issues was broken. What are we doing to rectify the situation?Food Safety News is improving our ability to respond to a...
To celebrate Thanksgiving here at Food Safety News we're hosting our fourth virtual potluck (we've also held virtual picnics on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day).We'll be having turkey, of course, and for tips on how to cook a turkey, you can't beat the Food and Drug Administration's Keep Food Safe Blog. For instance, did you procrastinators know...
The Estrella Family Creamery of Montesano, Washington, had a booth at Seattle's University District farmers market this weekend, but cheese was not on display at the creamery's stand. Instead, Anthony and Kelli Estrella were showing off current inspection records.The World Cheese Award-winning dairy recalled a variety of cheeses after the creamery's products tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes in February. In...
Wright County Egg, one of two egg companies whose products resulted in over 1,500 Salmonella cases nationwide this year, was sued by another outbreak victim yesterday. The most recent lawsuit, filed by the Seattle-based Marler Clark law firm, was filed in Federal District Court in Iowa yesterday on behalf of a Brookshire, Texas resident.According to the lawsuit, plaintiff Jim Bussey...
Salmonella contamination led to a recall of alfalfa sprouts by Living Foods, Inc. of Ionia, Michigan, this week after one of the company's retail-size packages of alfalfa sprouts tested positive for Salmonella.The alfalfa sprouts subject to recall were distributed to retail and food service facilities in Michigan through wholesale produce suppliers. Products being recalled include the following:* Four (4) 1-pound...
The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets announced Friday that the Hamilton Corner Meat Market is recalling all in-store ground beef, in-store sliced deli turkey and in-store sliced ham sold on Sept. 29 for potential E. coli O157:H7 contamination. New York State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker announced that the meat products being recalled by the meat market, which...
D & M Smoked Fish, Inc., which does business as Haifa Smoked Fish, announced this week that the company was recalling specific lots of its Haifa Smoked Fish brand products due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The recalled products, which were sold in vacuum-packed plastic packaging, were sold between Aug. 10, 2010 and Sept. 3, 2010 to retailers and...
In an official statement from the Onondaga County Health Department early this week, Health Commissioner Cynthia Morrow said she expected the number of ill people associated with a Campylobacter outbreak associated with Hinerwadel's Grove clambake restaurant in Syracuse, NY to grow. On Oct. 5, only 7 cases of campylobacteriosis had been associated with the outbreak; now there are 60. According...
The Agriculture Department is holding another in its series of mobile slaughter unit information sessions today in Fort Collins, CO as part of its "Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food" initiative. The session will focus on red meat slaughter.Mobile slaughter units are self-contained slaughter facilities that can travel from site to site. Regional small livestock producers can take advantage of...
The Onondaga County Health Department and New York State Department of Health announced this week that an uptick in laboratory-confirmed Campylobacter cases has been detected in Central New York state. According to a health department press release, at least 7 people became ill with campylobacteriosis, the illness caused by the ingestion of Campylobacter bacteria, after eating at Hinerwadel's Grove clambake...
Wyoming's Joint Agriculture Committee decided yesterday to sponsor the hotly contested Wyoming Food Freedom Bill in next year's legislative session. The bill, which was introduced by Rep. Sue Wallis, R-Recluse, would exempt all "cottage foods", or foods prepared in home kitchens and sold directly to consumers, from regulation. Supporters of the bill argue that consumers should be able to purchase...
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