Wild Cajun Meals LLC, of Garland, TX, is recalling approximately 18,418 pounds of frozen, fully cooked jambalaya and gumbo products that were produced without the benefit of federal inspection, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
The problem was discovered during routine FSIS surveillance
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Spent the last eight days of May on a “road trip.” Did read Food Safety News every day along with a local newspaper like the Lexington Herald-Leader.
This weekend finds me digging out and trying to catch up. Incoming email totals about 400 per day. But enough about my
Continue Reading Letter from the Editor: Have Your Way With Jambalaya
A week after softball fundraisers served up jambalaya in a Louisiana town of about 400, state health officials reported a food poisoning victim count of 158, with 40 hospitalized.
One person who ate the jambalaya has died, but it is not yet known whether a foodborne pathogen was the cause
Continue Reading Food poisoning victim count nears 160 in jambalaya outbreak
A second pathogen is in play in a northeast Louisiana outbreak thought to be caused by jambalaya served at a softball fundraising event Monday.
By Friday afternoon, 125 people were confirmed sick and investigators found some of them are positive for the bacterium Clostridium perfringens. Thursday state health officials said
Continue Reading 2nd pathogen in fundraiser outbreak; jambalaya still suspect
