CDC Traces Outbreak with Shopper Cards
As of March 2, 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) counted a total of 245 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Montevideo in 44 states....
Foodborne Illness Investigations
More Pepper Recalled in Salmonella Outbreak
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is throwing its nets over more pepper suspected as the cause of a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo that has infected 245 people...
Shigella Outbreak Closes Subway in IL
WGN Local News in Lombard, Illinois reported Thursday that a Subway restaurant has been closed by the DuPage County Health Department after several customers contracted Shigellosis, a gastrointestinal illness. The...
Wholesome Spice Recalls Red Pepper
The latest event in the nationwide Salmonella outbreak traced to the consumption of contaminated salami is the recall of crushed red pepper by Brooklyn, NY-based Wholesome Spice.As the investigation enters...
Surveillance Key To Tackling Outbreaks
Time was that when consumers and merchants bought food from farmers in the surrounding area, it was relatively easy to figure out where food that got people sick came from....
Army Investigates Food Contamination
The U.S. Army, according to Fox News, is investigating allegations that five people tried to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson in Columbia, SC.The Army's Criminal Investigation Division told...
Jimsonweed Source of Toxic Poisoning
Last week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention includes a report on anticholingeric poisoning from the consumption of jimsonweed in July of...
State Names Second Bad Pepper Distributor
Brooklyn's Wholesome Spice and Seasonings was not the only company supplying black pepper contaminated with Salmonella Montevideo to Daniele Inc., the Rhode Island Department of Health said Wednesday.Dayton, NJ's Mincing...
Vietnam's Black Pepper is Outbreak Source
Somewhere in the 135,000 tons of fresh black pepper Vietnam shipped around the world last year is the end of a supply chain that is making people sick in the...
Black Pepper Positive for Salmonella
Black pepper supplied by New York's Wholesome Spice to Daniele Inc. to coat its salami products was found by Rhode Island public health officials to contain the Salmonella Montevideo outbreak...
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Opinion & Contributed Articles
More or Less Food Safety Regulation?
During the past weeks, a few news stories have highlighted the distinctions between two different legislative approaches to address the issue of food safety. There is little question that the...
Foodborne Illness By The Numbers
Robert L. Scharff, with the help of funding from the Produce Safety Project at Georgetown University, recently published a study analyzing the financial impact of foodborne illness in the United...
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