A total of thirty cases of Salmonella illness linked to poultry, including frozen raw breaded chicken products, are being reported in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick Yet no recall warnings are yet associated with this outbreak.
The Public Health Agency of Canada is collaborating with
Continue Reading Slow-burning Salmonella outbreak over chicken troubles Canada
As of Monday, the Rhode Island Department of Health reports 33 possible cases of Salmonella with 17 hospitalized in an outbreak linked to holiday pastries called zeppole. (Wednesday update: 43 ill, possibly including one fatality; 22 hospitalized.)
Having over one third of victims in a Salmonella outbreak require hospitalization is
Continue Reading Zeppole Outbreak: Why So Many Hospitalized?
The judge’s full opinion in Commisioner of Minnesota Dept. of Ag v. Mike Hartmann et al. is the kind of read that makes you wish the feds and state governments took more seriously the notion of criminally prosecuting the worst offenders of food safety laws.
If this is a biased
Sprouts . . . nutritionally dense, next to irresistable on sub sandwiches, and an exceptional medium for the proliferation of dangerous bacteria.
Sprouts have been called one of the 10 riskiest foods. They have been estimated to have caused 40 percent of foodborne illness outbreaks linked to fresh produce. And
Continue Reading Sprouts Again–This Time an Illinois Outbreak
It may be only a rarity that a widely contaminated food product distributed to a major grocery chain all over an entire region of the country does not cause many severe illnesses.
Even though there are at least 37 confirmed illnesses in the E. coli outbreak involving Gouda-style cheese, many
Continue Reading Cheese Outbreak: A Study in Good Epidemiology
Sangar Fresh Cut Produce is in the midst of a public relations nightmare, now that everybody who pays attention to food safety events knows that it is at the center of a Listeria outbreak that may have killed four people.
Sangar’s brass is taking a pretty brash stance on its
Senator Coburn is wrong. The Senate needs to pass meaningful food safety legislation immediately, not keep it on the backburner through the lame duck session so that it can start from scratch again next term. He has raised legitimate questions of cost, but even his estimated costs of implementing S.
Continue Reading A Blind Faith Based Approach to Food Safety
At the risk of jinxing the apparent success, it is worthy of note that, excluding the recent problem with bison meat, ground beef and other beef products have been conspicuously absent from the news this summer. This is a significant step for an industry that collectively recalled millions of
Continue Reading A Summer with Less E. coli?
Certain times of year are associated with increased prevalence of foodborne disease–most notably, E. coli O157:H7 during summer months. Springtime, to the author’s knowledge at least, has not had any such specific association with a particular pathogen or particular food problem, which is why it was so striking to watch
Last week, in the wake of the State Supreme Court’s ruling in Brayton et al. v. Pawlenty et al., Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty issued Executive Order 10-07, which seeks to prioritize core government functions in anticipation of shutting down non-core government functions to save money for the state’s significant
