2022 outbreaks

Two dead in Listeria outbreak in Ottawa retirement home

Two residents in a retirement home in Ottawa, Canada, have died from listeria poisoning. The deaths are part of a month-long outbreak at the resident home. Ottawa Public Health (OPH)

By News Desk

/ 9 Jun 2022

Two dead in Listeria outbreak in Ottawa retirement home

Three dead in Danish Listeria outbreak

Eight people in Denmark have been infected with Listeria in the space of two weeks and three have died. The Statens Serum Institut, Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (Fødevarestyrelsen) and

By News Desk

/ 9 Jun 2022

France and UK most affected in Ferrero Salmonella outbreak; one case in U.S.

France and the United Kingdom have the most patients in the Ferrero chocolate Salmonella outbreak that has sickened almost 450 people. The UK has 122 monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium patients. Santé

By Joe Whitworth

/ 8 Jun 2022

France and UK most affected in Ferrero Salmonella outbreak; one case in U.S.

Abbott resumes production of infant formula under strict eye of FDA

Abbott Nutrition has resumed operations at its baby formula plant which was shut down by the FDA in mid-February because of dirty conditions and a link to a cronobacter outbreak

By Coral Beach

/ 6 Jun 2022

Publisher’s Platform: OIG to determine whether FDA followed the inspections and recall process for infant formula in accordance with federal requirements by 2023?

– OPINION – Report not to issue until 2023? Hey, OIG, see below, we need answers sooner and I will give you a head start. HHS, OIG posted this morning: The Federal

By Bill Marler

/ 3 Jun 2022

Publisher’s Platform: OIG to determine whether FDA followed the inspections and recall process for infant formula in accordance with federal requirements by 2023?

FDA continues to trace strawberries related to outbreak; other outbreaks still under investigation

The Food and Drug Administration has initiated traceback efforts related to fresh organic strawberries associated with outbreaks of hepatitis A in the United States and Canada. These potentially contaminated strawberries

By News Desk

/ 2 Jun 2022

FDA continues to trace strawberries related to outbreak; other outbreaks still under investigation

Pets, peanut butter and Salmonella: A cautionary tale

Editor’s note: This column was originally published on eFoodAlert.com and is reprinted here with the permission of the author. By Phyllis Entis Between September 2008 and April 2009,

By Guest Contributor

/ 31 May 2022

Pets, peanut butter and Salmonella: A cautionary tale

STOP petitions government to add cronobacter to Nationally Notifiable Disease List

– CONTRIBUTED – This week there were three hearings in Washington D.C. addressing the infant formula shortage and the reasons behind it. FDA officials were pressed about the failure of leadership

By STOP Foodborne Illness

/ 28 May 2022

Publisher’s Platform: More sickened with Salmonella Senftenberg by Jif peanut butter – Questions need to be asked

– OPINION – 1. Will J.M. Smucker Company and/or the FDA release immediately all inspection reports on this Jif plant from 2010 (see below) to the present? 2. Will J.

By Bill Marler

/ 27 May 2022

Publisher’s Platform: More sickened with Salmonella Senftenberg by Jif peanut butter – Questions need to be asked

Letter from the Editor: Careful what you step in when on Capitol Hill

– OPINION – The U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Robert Califf as Commissioner of Food and Drugs by a 50-46 vote only a few weeks ago. And the FDA Commissioner had to

By Dan Flynn

/ 27 May 2022

Letter from the Editor: Careful what you step in when on Capitol Hill

Abbott’s senior vice president grilled by members of House subcommittee

“We know we let you down.” The senior vice president of Abbott Nutrition — the manufacturer of infant formula whose plant closure amid a food safety investigation has left the country

By Coral Beach

/ 26 May 2022

FDA leader says agency could have done a better job with investigation into infant formula plant

Describing inspection findings at an infant formula plant as “shocking,” the head of the FDA on Wednesday told a U.S. House panel that the formula maker had failed, but

By Coral Beach

/ 26 May 2022

FDA leader says agency could have done a better job with investigation into infant formula plant

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Two dead in Listeria outbreak in Ottawa retirement home

Three dead in Danish Listeria outbreak

France and UK most affected in Ferrero Salmonella outbreak; one case in U.S.

FDA continues to trace strawberries related to outbreak; other outbreaks still under investigation

Pets, peanut butter and Salmonella: A cautionary tale

STOP petitions government to add cronobacter to Nationally Notifiable Disease List

Publisher’s Platform: More sickened with Salmonella Senftenberg by Jif peanut butter – Questions need to be asked

Letter from the Editor: Careful what you step in when on Capitol Hill

Abbott’s senior vice president grilled by members of House subcommittee

FDA leader says agency could have done a better job with investigation into infant formula plant