Egg Co. Faces Another Lawsuit
Quality Egg, which does business under the name Wright County Egg, faces a fourth lawsuit brought on behalf of a Salmonella outbreak victim by the Seattle law firm Marler Clark. ...
Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
E. coli O26 Illnesses Spark Ground Beef Recall
Late Friday night, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Cargill Inc. is recalling about 8,500 pounds of ground beef for possible E. coli contamination.According to the USDA, two E. coli...
E. coli Outbreaks Follow Events in U.S. & Canada
With free parking and admission at just $3 for adults, folks left the Aug. 8-14 Northwestern Michigan Fair in Traverse City with a lot of good memories, except for the...
FDA: Farms Involved with Recall Need to Clean Up
The Iowa farms behind a recall of over half a billion eggs did not have adequate food safety standards in place, U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told...
Egg Recall Grows to 550 Million
Another Iowa producer Friday recalled a massive amount of eggs--this latest recall is for 170 million eggs sold under several brand names in at least 14 states.Hillandale Farms of Iowa...
More Mamey Pulp Recalled over Typhoid Outbreak
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration yesterday issued an update on the nationwide recall of frozen mamey fruit pulp for Salmonella Typhi contamination yesterday, adding a second company's frozen mamey...
Salmonella Linked to Pickles in Illinois
Officials at the Cook County Department of Public Health are investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Newport linked to the Assi Market, an Asian foods market in Niles, Illinois.There are currently...
1,300 Sick From Bad Eggs, CDC Says
The nationwide Salmonella outbreak associated with the recall of 380 million eggs from a single Iowa producer got bigger yesterday.And one of the nation's top food safety advocates predicted the...
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...
Egg Salmonella Outbreak Grows; Recall Expands
Many more illnesses are being blamed on a nationwide Salmonella outbreak and California's NuCal Foods is expanding a shell egg recall to include five additional brand names not named by...
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