On Monday, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from Food Safety News, the Michigan Department of Community Health released documents again naming Taco Bell as the mystery Mexican-style fast food chain linked to an outbreak of Salmonella infection from October and November 2011. Michigan has become the second state to release documents implicating Taco Bell as the restaurant likely involved...
In the fall of 2006, health officials in Minnesota and Vermont reported multiple cases of Salmonella Typhimurium poisoning with matching genetic patterns. Working with federal officials, they began looking for a source.A month later, their investigations had focused on fresh tomatoes, sliced and consumed in a variety of restaurants. And the tomatoes were, in turn, traced to a packing house...
The South Dakota Department of Health reports that it is investigating a possible link between a foodborne illness outbreak and a Tuesday evening basketball game in Pierre.About 50 people have been reported ill with a diarrheal illness, the health department said in a news alert. In coordination with school districts in Pierre and Mitchell, the department said it is working to...
Maryland public health officials say lab tests confirmed Campylobacter jejuni bacteria in two unopened containers of unpasteurized milk from the Your Family Cow farm in Pennsylvania.Pennsylvania health authorities have not yet announced the results of their tests, as the number of people who are sick after drinking milk from the raw milk dairy has risen to 35 in four states.The...
With no disclosure about who could have supplied contaminated meat to a Northeastern chain of grocery stories, the outbreak of Salmonella infection involving ground beef sold by Hannaford supermarkets has been declared over.In its final investigation update Wednesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 20 people in seven states were infected with an antibiotic-resistant strain of Salmonella Typhimurium.That's...
On Wednesday, Food Safety News editor Dan Flynn broke news of the identity of "Restaurant Chain A" as Taco Bell in the 10-state outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis that sickened at least 68 individuals in October and November 2011. The disclosure came from officials at the Oklahoma State Department of Health's Acute Disease Service, who responded to a records request from...
Pennsylvania health authorities said Tuesday that the number of confirmed cases in an outbreak of Campylobacter infection has risen to 20 - 16 from that state and 4 from Maryland.All of the people who are sick had consumed unpasteurized milk from The Family Cow dairy in the Chambersburg area, according to a report in The Patriot-News.Pennsylvania and Maryland departments of...
As Food Safety News continues to investigate the identity of 'Restaurant Chain A,' the "Mexican-style fast food chain" linked to a 10-state outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis infection in October and November 2011, the issue has received mounting attention from a variety of media outlets and blogs, including the Huffington Post and Marion Nestle at Food Politics. JoNel Aleccia of msnbc.com spoke...
There now are 12 cases of Campylobacter infection among people who drank unpasteurized milk from a dairy in Chambersburg, PA, Pennsylvania health officials reported Monday.State health and agriculture investigators are awaiting results of tests later this week to see if they can help determine whether milk from the Family Cow farm is the cause of the illnesses.Last week, the Maryland...
The field is narrowing in the search for the mysterious "Restaurant Chain A," implicated by public health officials as the source of a Salmonella outbreak that sickened 68 people in 10 states in October and November last year. Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported the outbreak two weeks ago, no federal or state agency yet has...
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