This week, many will enjoy a delicious meal on Thanksgiving Day with family and friends — either in person or virtually. Taking the necessary steps toward safe food handling and sanitation will help protect
Continue Reading USDA shares easy at-home advice for Thanksgiving food safety
Steve D. Morris is a name many may not recognize, yet he is a major national food safety decision maker. And he just writes letters with many of them addressed to Rep. Rosa DeLauro, who
Continue Reading GAO delivers 3 recommendations to make CDC better
With just six weeks to go, 2020 continues to look like a light year for the major foodborne illnesses when measured by multistate outbreaks. The three recently identified outbreaks of E. coli O157: H7 without
Continue Reading E. coli outbreaks with unknown food sources top light year for foodborne illnesses
Officials are investigating another outbreak of E. Coli O157: H7 infections of unknown origin. It’s the third such outbreak reported in three weeks. Although the CDC says the cause is unknown, it also says recalled
Continue Reading Another E. coli outbreak linked to romaine; illnesses span 6 states
Public health officials in the United States have confirmed that ten people, all requiring hospitalization, are infected with an outbreak strain of Listeria according to reports from three states–Florida, Massachusetts, and New York. One death
Continue Reading Deli meats suspected for causing 3-state Listeria outbreak: 1 Death
ROSEMONT, IL — Yesterday’s Food Safety Summit’s annual Town Hall Q&A featured top regulators and agency leaders from FDA, USDA, AFDO and CDC. They talked about their agency’s work during the past year, with a
Continue Reading Leaders speak about how their agencies have responded in the wake of the pandemic
A multistate outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infections linked to peaches packed or supplied by Prima Wawona or Wawona Packing Company is still being investigated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Disease Control
Continue Reading Summer outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis ends with peach recall, but remains unsolved
Federal officials continue to report new illnesses in a 10-state Salmonella outbreak linked to imported, contaminated wood ear mushrooms, also known as kikurage or black fungus.
Officials reported yesterday there have been 43 patients confirmed
Continue Reading Salmonella patient count up as outbreak traced to wood ear mushrooms continues
Health officials are urging anyone who ate or drank anything from an Indiana grocery store since Sept. 7 to monitor themselves for signs of Salmonella infection.
Local media, FOX59, reported county officials are investigating a
Continue Reading Indiana officials investigating cluster of Salmonella infections
A month after Thomson International Inc. initiated a recall of onions linked to a Salmonella outbreak, federal officials are reporting the patient tally has topped 1,000 in the United States. Canadian officials say hundreds are
Continue Reading No sign of Salmonella outbreak ending as U.S. patient count tops 1,000
A California fruit company shipped peaches, now linked to a Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak in the U.S. and Canada, to at least 14 other countries around the world.
The fresh peaches shipped by Wawona Packing Co.
Continue Reading U.S. company shipped peaches around the globe; Salmonella outbreak ongoing
