Lawsuits Filed in Subway Shigella Outbreak
Two lawsuits were filed this week against a Subway in Lombard, Illinois, the site of a county-wide Shigella outbreak. The suits were filed by Marler Clark, the Seattle-based foodborne illness...
Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
Dutch Valley Joins Pepper Recall
The nationwide 2010 outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo has another company recalling pepper and products made with pepper. It's been a week since the federal Centers for Disease Control and...
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....
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...
CDC Says Two Strains Possible In Outbreak
The nationwide Salmonella outbreak associated with Italian-style salami may involve two strains of the pathogen, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has confirmed.In the latest...
Chicago Man Sues Over Salami Illness
Illinois resident Raymond Cirimele regularly purchased Daniele Inc. Italian-style salami products at a Costco store in Cook County. Last November he ate some of that pepper-coated salami and was infected...
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...
Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak Grows
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta Tuesday added four people and two states to the Salmonella Montevideo outbreak linked to Italian-style salami manufactured by the Rhode...
Man Sues Salami Maker, Pepper Producer
Harold Lee Hanks was so ill, weak, and disoriented by Jan. 23 after eating salami he purchased at his local Wal-Mart six days earlier that his wife demanded that he...
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Opinion & Contributed Articles
Keeping Tradition Alive (despite the risks)
There is much to be said for tradition, especially as it relates to food. When my mother was alive, her tradition at Christmas was to make twice-baked potatoes, which she...
Why Did Whole Foods Stop Selling Raw Milk?
Why did Whole Foods stop selling raw milk in California, Washington, Pennsylvania, and Connecticut?In January, I wrote “Risky Business - Why would a retailer like Whole Foods sell Raw Milk?”...
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- Food News Feed, March 19, 2010
- No, This is Not a Raw Milk Dairy Blog - It just seems like it lately. Forest Grove Dairy Linked to Campylobacter Illnesses in Michigan
- I read Meating Place Daily - USDA FSIS to mandate Test and Hold, Traceback and Non-intact Meat Labeling - Now that is a Mouthful - Safer Too!
- Semi-Dried Tomatoes Fingered In Multiple Hepatitis Outbreaks
- Raw Milk Cow, Goat and Sheep Share Expanded in Idaho - Retail Raw Milk Sales Not Allowed
- Recall Roundup: March 19, 2010
- Seneca Lake "Spray Park" Class Action: Status Update
- Child Nutrition Reauthorization
eFoodAlert
- Recall Roundup: March 19, 2010
- Semi-Dried Tomatoes Fingered In Multiple Hepatitis Outbreaks
- Recall Roundup: March 18, 2010
- Contaminated Pepper Recalls: Nothing To Sneeze At
- Where's The HVP? Check This List Of Recalled Food Brands
- Australia's Bonsoy Thyroid Cases: 30+ And Counting
- Gillibrand Proposes "Consumer Recall Notification Act"
- Recall Roundup: March 17, 2010
- Recall Roundup: March 16, 2010
- Recall Roundup: March 15, 2010