The FDA is warning restaurants and food retailers to not sell certain frozen raw oysters from Korea because of illnesses reported by at least 10 people.
The oysters were frozen raw in individual half shell and block form and exported by Dai One Food Co. Ltd. of the Republic of
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Hawaii House Bill 521 reads like another attempt to weaken the regulation of raw milk until you notice that the year 3000 is currently listed as the effective date. That might be a long wait for those who want to legalize raw milk and raw milk products in the Aloha
Continue Reading Raw milk bill requires Hawaii Legislature to choose between health risks or food security
Officials in Hawaii are clamping down on retailers that sell raw goat’s milk, using the threat of seizure and fines up to $10,000 per day.
The state Department of Health has embargoed raw milk products, which it says are not safe for human consumption, according to a public warning from
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Hawaii officials are investigating E. coli contamination in well water that has prompted the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut company to recall more than 20 products.
“There is clear evidence that food produced at the Kea‘au facility may be contaminated and consumers may be at risk,” said Peter Oshiro, sanitation branch
Continue Reading Mauna Loa recalls some cookies, 20 macadamia products for E. coli risk
The Hawaii Department of Health has confirmed the first case of rat lungworm disease in the state this year in an adult resident of West Hawaii on Hawaii Island.
The individual became seriously ill earlier this month and is being treated at a hospital. Laboratory results confirmed evidence of the
Continue Reading Hawaii reports first confirmed rat lungworm case of 2018
Ron and Darlene Fields had been married for 26 years when they decided to take a “free” 12-day trip to Hawaii in fall 2016.
Continue Reading ‘Free’ trip leaves man in expensive, lifelong, parasitic nightmare
A year after a Hepatitis A outbreak traced to scallops sickened almost 300 people, killing two, the Hawaii Department of Health is imposing new food safety regulations.
The cornerstone of the state’s updated food safety code is the requirement that all “food establishments” have at least one “person in charge”
Continue Reading Hawaii revises food safety regs a year after Hep A outbreak
People who recently ate poke in Hawaii that was prepared with contaminated, frozen raw tuna still have time to receive post-exposure vaccinations for Hepatitis A. The frozen ahi cubes were distributed to retailers, restaurants and caterers by Tropic Fish Hawaii LLC and was sold to the public between April 27
Continue Reading Hepatitis A found in tuna; time limited for post-exposure shots
More than 90,000 people received the first shot of a two-injection Hepatitis A vaccination in the second half of 2016, and that means more than 90,000 follow-up injections are coming due in the Aloha State.
More than two-and-a-half times as many people in Hawaii took Hepatitis A vaccinations this past
Continue Reading 90,000 Hepatitis A follow-up shots coming due in Hawaii
In the wake of two foodborne illness outbreaks, Hawaii began a week of public hearings on revisions to its food code on Monday.
Also on Monday, state officials cleared a seaweed grower-shipper whose products were linked to one of the outbreaks to resume operations.
The Hawaii Department of Health (DOH)
Continue Reading Hawaii seeks to update food safety regs following outbreaks
