It’s prime mushroom hunting time in much of the United States, but foragers need to have a keen eye or an expert opinion to avoid serious consequences.
A recent mushroom poisoning case in Massachusetts has illustrated again how people who forage mushrooms can find themselves carrying home a basket of
Continue Reading Misidentification increases the risk of poisoning as mushroom hunters head out to forage
Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Ohio State University and is republished here with permission. The author is Barbara Kowalcyk, Kevin’s mother.
Kevin came into our lives early in the morning on December 10, 1998. Our second child – our first son – immediately captured our hearts
Continue Reading Remembering Kevin: There was no accountability
Sarah Schacht is part of a select group of people with the distinction of falling ill with E. coli in two separate outbreaks. First a victim in Seattle’s Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak of 1993 at the age of 13, Schacht was sickened again 20 years later after
Continue Reading Consumer who fell ill after eating Daily Harvest tells her story
Editor’s note: This essay was written as a Final Assignment for the Food Safety Litigation course at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville and was selected by the professors as one of the top essays in the class. The course is taught by attorneys Denis Stearns and Bill Marler.
By Tami Kelley
Continue Reading Salmonella potentially changed my granddaughter’s life
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Santé publique France reports that as of 13/04/2022, 53 confirmed cases have been identified, of which 51 are linked to O26 strains, and 2 to O103 strains. For 26 other cases of HUS and STEC infections notified to Public Health France, investigations are ongoing.
These 53 cases occurred in
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Your child should not get E. coli and kidney failure or die from eating a pizza
Five years ago, three-year-old Jordin Du Preez was fed a polony sandwich at her preschool. The Tiger Brand’s polony in the sandwich was contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes and nearly killed Jordin and her classmates and left them with debilitating health consequences.
The Tiger Brands polony listeriosis outbreak began at the
Continue Reading Mother describes daughter’s near death from 2017 Tiger Brands Listeria outbreak
“They took away something that I was waiting for almost eight years of my life.”
Over the course of their first eight years of marriage, South African Thenjiwe Dodo and her husband tried to have a child. In 2018, after eight years, and eight miscarriages, Thenjiwe was one month away
Continue Reading South African mother loses newborn to listeriosis in 2018 Tiger brand polony outbreak
A group of people affected by a large poisoning outbreak in Spain from adulterated olive oil several decades ago have tried to raise awareness of the incident, according to media reports.
Reuters reported the survivors went into Madrid’s El Prado art gallery on Tuesday and threatened to commit suicide. They
Continue Reading Spanish poisoning survivors stage museum protest
During this year’s national Food Safety Education Month, STOP Foodborne Illness is asking their constituents and the public at large to increase awareness about foodborne illness and the fact that an estimated 3,000 people die every year from foodborne pathogens.
STOP says that “everything we do,
Continue Reading STOP3000: Raising awareness of foodborne illness with every step
A South African woman has spoken out about how her newborn baby spent the first 12 days of his life in hospital because of a Listeria infection that was part of the country’s largest ever outbreak.
The listeriosis outbreak began at the start of 2017 and was declared over in
Continue Reading Mother shares baby’s battle against Listeria
