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…
Continue Reading Feds Seize Bravo Farms Cheese Under Court Order
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…
Continue Reading Bravo Farms Resumes Selling Cheese
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…
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…
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…
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…
Continue Reading Cheese Outbreak: A Study in Good Epidemiology
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…
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…
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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…
Continue Reading First Lawsuit Filed in E. coli Cheese Outbreak
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…
Continue Reading DeLauro: ‘Imperative’ to Fix Food Safety System
