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
You could say lab rats know what to expect because they know the history.
“Laboratory Review of Foodborne Disease Investigations in Washington State 2007-2017” is all about using the past to prepare for the future.
Continue Reading 11 years of work becomes baseline for Washington Public Health Laboratories
The maker of some of North America’s best known “dense nutrition” liquids, which are frequently used for young children and elderly or sick adults, is recalling more products in relation to at least one illness.
Continue Reading At least one ill in Canada; PediaSure, Ensure, other nutrition drinks recalled
Public health officials in Utah and Michigan are alerting people to possible exposure to the hepatitis A virus after confirmation of infected foodservice workers.
The illnesses are part of a multi-state outbreak that has sickened
Continue Reading Officials in Michigan, Utah warn about new hepatitis A cases
The most recent outbreak from Escherichia coli O157:H7 in romaine lettuce spurred me to pull up an old draft, trim it and post it in an attempt to promote public health. Enjoy.
In the Spring
Continue Reading Vinegar can help home cooks battle bacteria on leafy greens
Negative news keeps piling up for French dairy giant Lactalis, which recalled 12 million cans of baby milk in December because of a multi-country Salmonella outbreak traced to the product.
Forty infants across France, Spain
Continue Reading French baby formula scandal broadens; retailers blame Lactalis
Another restaurant worker in Michigan has tested positive for hepatitis A, this time at a Tim Hortons location in Monroe, igniting another round of recommendations from public health officials that restaurant patrons seek post-exposure treatment
Continue Reading Certain Tim Hortons patrons should seek Hepatitis A treatment
Consumer complaints and illnesses have prompted a recall of Maple Leaf Foods chicken strips because of potential contamination with the toxin produced by Staphylococcus bacteria.
Retailers across Canada received the frozen chicken breast strips, which
Continue Reading Staphylococcus illnesses prompt recall of frozen chicken strips
Unless it’s in the mail, the owners of Pride & Joy Dairy missed the deadline yesterday to respond to Washington state’s suspension of their license to sell raw milk for the retail market.
Two Salmonella
Continue Reading Raw milk dairy out of time to appeal retail license suspension
The showdown in Washington continues between owners of the Pride & Joy raw milk dairy and state officials in regard to pathogens that state inspectors found in the dairy’s unpasteurized organic milk.
Tuesday the Washington
Continue Reading Raw milk producers refuse to believe positive Salmonella tests
State officials suspended the license of Pride & Joy Dairy today and again warned the public to not drink any of the dairy’s organic, unpasteurized, raw milk because lab tests have confirmed it is contaminated
Continue Reading State closes raw milk dairy; Salmonella matched to sick people
