They came Thursday morning for the cheese at Bravo Farms. Specifically U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) agents, with help from U.S. Marshals, who seized about 80,000 pounds of cheese including:
— Ninety-seven, more or less, 1.2 pound wedges of Gouda cheese, and
— Fourteen, more or less, 40 pound…
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A California cheese maker whose raw milk Gouda was the source of an E. coli outbreak that sickened 38 people is back in business and says it will now pasteurize its cheese–at least for the time being.
Bravo Farms of Traver, CA., a pioneer of artisan-crafted cheese in the state,…
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A Colorado family’s fall getaway to Arizona was unforgettable, but not in a good way.
Their horrible experience is recounted in a complaint filed Wednesday in Douglas County, CO, against Bravo Farms Cheeses, LLC, the California artisanal cheese-maker whose Gouda has been confirmed as the cause of an E. coli…
Whole Foods Market announced Wednesday that it has carried many of the products involved in the recall of Bravo Farms cheese.
Earlier this week Bravo Farms recalled its entire inventory due to evidence of Listeria and E. coli contamination at their Traver, CA plant.
Bravo’s products at Whole Foods Market…
A California company whose raw milk Gouda-style cheese was the source of an E. coli outbreak that sickened at least 38 people in five states has now recalled its entire inventory.
The expanded recall of all Bravo Farms cheese was announced Tuesday by the California Department of Food and Agriculture…
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…
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Thirty-seven people have now been confirmed as infected with an outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 traced to Bravo Farms Dutch Style Gouda Cheese served and sold at Costco Warehouses in five states.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the latest four cases were reported in Arizona, where…
Continue Reading Bravo Farms Cheese Outbreak Toll Rises to 37
Two new lawsuits were filed Wednesday as the number of confirmed E. coli O157:H7 illnesses linked to a gouda-style cheese rose to 33.
A Phoenix woman and parents of a young girl are suing Bravo Farms of Traver, CA, the maker of the raw milk cheese. The woman and child…
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The little cube of cheese, picked up from a sample tray at a Phoenix Costco, was probably the smallest bit of food Annette Sutfin nibbled on that day.
But three days later, that cheese tidbit would make the 27-year-old social worker so sick she had to seek emergency medical treatment…
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Reacting to recent news of illnesses caused by celery and cheese, U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), chairwoman of the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, which oversees the Food and Drug Administration and Department of Agriculture budgets, urged Congress to pass pending food safety legislation.
“Food safety is literally a matter of…
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