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Editor’s note: May is Hepatitis Awareness Month and today is Hepatitis Testing Day. For more information, click here to visit the CDC page.
I am sure the idiom, “you sound like a broken record,”
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Publisher’s Platform: If I was part of Caito Foods, I’d be nervous
Opinion
Criminal prosecutions in food cases have been quiet for the last few years.
Outbreak 2: The recent multistate investigation began on April 2, 2019, when CDC’s PulseNet identified the Salmonella Carrau outbreak. As of
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Publisher’s Platform: Beef and Cut Fruit Manufacturers should pay medical bills and wage loss of Salmonella and E. coli Victims
Opinion
Bill Marler, food safety advocate and foodborne attorney since 1993, whose Seattle law firm, Marler Clark, has been contacted by victims of the recent E. coli O103 ground meat outbreak, and recent
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Publisher’s Platform: Beef Industry, Seriously, I thought you were putting me out of Business?
Opinion
On the anniversary of my 5,000th blog post (I’m now at 6,388) I wrote:
In 2002, I wrote an Op-ed for the Denver Post entitled: “Put me out of business. Please.”
For this
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Publisher’s Platform: It’s past time to offer foodservice workers Hep A vaccinations
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Vaccinating food service workers will not solve the entire HAV problem — we need a nationwide focus on homelessness and drug use as well.
According to a recent health warning, the CDC reported multiple
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Publisher’s Platform: On the road again — Salmonella sick tour revisited
Opinion
Yesterday the CDC and FDA announced that Jensen Tuna of Louisiana was recalling frozen ground raw tuna sourced from JK Fish of Vietnam due to possible Salmonella Newport contamination. The recalled tuna was individually
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Publisher’s Platform: An Outbreak of Salmonella linked to Caito Cut Fruit
The 2018 Salmonella Adelaide Outbreak
As of July 24, 2018, 77 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Adelaide were reported from nine states – Arkansas 1, Florida 1, Illinois 7, Indiana 14, Kentucky
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Publisher’s Platform: Hey, President Trump, what are you eating tonight? Fresh Fruit or Hamburger – Pick your Poison
Opinion
Salmonella: Tonight the FDA reported that Caito Foods is voluntarily recalling fresh cut watermelon, fresh cut honeydew melon, fresh cut cantaloupe and fresh cut mixed fruit containing one of these melons, produced at the
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Publisher’s Platform: What to do during an E. coli Outbreak
Today the CDC reported that 96 people have been infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O103 in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia. Illnesses started on dates from March 2, 2019, to March
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Publisher’s Platform: Western Sizzlin’ in Ooltewah Tennessee closing due to Hepatitis A
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My bet vaccinating employees looks very good at this point.
In March, an employee at the Western Sizzlin’ in Ooltewah was diagnosed with hepatitis Aand on one Sunday, the health department gave out over
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Publisher’s Platform: It is Irresponsible for Restaurants to not offer Hepatitis A Vaccines to Employees
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Or, ignore the issue, sicken your customers and be assured, you will be sued.
A fact from the CDC: “Since the hepatitis A outbreaks were first identified in 2016, more than 15,000 cases, 8,500
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