The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for retail ground beef products sold by Bismillah Halal Meats, a retail market in Marietta, GA., that may be contaminated with E. coli O103.
The FSIS is issuing this public health alert to ensure that consumers
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I have said this too many times. In the 1990’s ninety percent of the work I did were E. coli O157:H7 cases linked to hamburger. However, due to the collaboration between regulators (deeming E. coli O157:H7 and adulterant), the beef industry (interventions and implementing “test and hold” and the restaurant
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: A “rare” E. coli Outbreak linked to ground beef is a reminder of a bad past
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In 1994, in response to an E. coli outbreak linked to ground beef sold at Jack in the Box restaurants, FSIS established an E. coli sampling program which treated E. coli as an adulterant. Shortly thereafter, in the case Texas Food Industry Association v. Espy, 870 F.
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Researchers have documented the first enteroinvasive E. coli outbreak in Thailand.
An enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) outbreak affecting 154 people was identified among attendees at a wedding in Loei Province. The median time to symptom onset was 18 hours and ranged from seven to 72 hours. The epidemiological evidence suggested
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert due to concerns that certain Turner Farm’s frozen, raw ground beef products may be contaminated with foreign material, specifically hard plastic and metal.
The problem was discovered after the firm notified FSIS that
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The number of people infected in an E. coli O145 outbreak in Iceland has more than doubled to almost 50.
Landlaeknir (The Directorate of Health) previously said that 23 pupils from the Mánagarði kindergarten in the Vesturbær district of Reykjavík had been sick. The update was reported in December’s edition
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Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have uncovered critical links between socioeconomic factors — such as income, education level, and poverty — and an increased risk of Salmonella infections linked to ground beef consumption.
In a study published in the Journal of Food Protection, CDC researchers
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A Montana meat processor is recalling ground beef tied to an outbreak of E. coli infections that has killed one patient.
Lower Valley Processing in Kalispell, MT, has voluntarily recalled all non-intact, raw products (e.g., ground meat products) produced from animals slaughtered on June 5, 2024, because they may be
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Officials in Montana have identified restaurants that sold ground beef implicated in an outbreak of E. Coli O157:H7 infections that has killed one.
The Flathead City-County Health Department and the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services continue to work together to investigate the outbreak originating in Flathead County.
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A deadly outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections is under investigation in Montana.
At least 13 people have been sickened and one has died, according to the Flathead City-County Health Department. The last known date of consumption of ground beef implicated in the outbreak was July 14.
The officials investigating
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