Federal Egg Recall Investigation Widens
Federal officials are widening their investigation of two Iowa farms at the center of a large-scale egg recall and multistate Salmonella outbreak. The criminal division of the Food and Drug...
Foodborne Illness Investigations
FDA Finds 'Objectionable Conditions' at Egg Farms
Flies "too numerous to count," rodents, wild birds, maggots, and open piles of manure four to eight feet high were among the observations released by the U.S. Food and Drug...
Umpqua Dairy Products Back on Shelves
Umpqua Dairy President Doug Feldkamp said workers inside the Roseburg dairy milk processing plant have finished cleaning equipment for dairy product packaging that has been linked to a Salmonella outbreak....
FDA Salmonella Tests Link 2 Iowa Farms to Outbreak
FDA Investigators Find Salmonella Linking Iowa Farms to Outbreak, CDC Reports Jump in Illnesses Food and Drug Administration officials said yesterday their preliminary investigation has identified Salmonella-positive samples, linking two...
Possible Hepatitis A Exposure at Westchester Deli
Westchester County, NY Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Archbald announced this week that customers who purchased uncooked foods or sandwiches at Delgado's Deli, otherwise known as J&D Deli & Catering, located...
DeCoster Contributions Went to Clinton in 2008
After she came in third in the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton's campaign for President received contributions of $2,300 each from Peter and Alina DeCoster of Clarion.Peter and Alina are the...
Oregon Dairy's Problem Might be in the Packaging
Product packaging--not its pasteurized dairy or juice products--appears to be to blame for the Salmonella Braenderup problem at Oregon's Umpqua Dairy.Umpqua Dairy of Roseburg began a mid-week recall of its...
152 Million More Eggs Recalled, Egg Co. Sued
Three hundred eighty million bad eggs will end up as the prime suspects in many a court case before this all over.That's the new number--380 million--after Iowa's Wright County Egg...
Eggs Source of Nationwide Salmonella Outbreak
The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) said Monday that seven Salmonella Enteritidis cases it has been investigating were linked to a multistate egg recall announced over the weekend, and the...
CDC Releases 2007 Foodborne Illness Numbers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new statistics on foodborne illness outbreaks today in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. The most recent numbers, which were obtained from...
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Some kids have already started attending classes, and most will be back in school after Labor Day. Many parents may justifiably be wondering about recent efforts to improve the quality...
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What if I had a food safety magic wand?The other morning when I was prepping in another studio to talk with another cable channel about yet another food crisis--this time...
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