Public health officials in the United States are warning travelers who have spent time in Mexico to be aware of multidrug-resistant strains of Salmonella Newport.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that some
Continue Reading CDC issues Salmonella alert for people traveling to Mexico
A family in England fell sick while on holiday in Mexico with at least one of them having a confirmed Cyclospora infection.
Philip Whitmore tested positive for Cyclospora after speaking with a doctor about his
Continue Reading Man contracts Cyclospora after Mexican holiday; others report illnesses
The Food and Drug Administration is continuing its use of import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to
Continue Reading FDA detaining papaya, dried peppers from Mexico at U.S. border
Hundreds of people in a Mexican municipality have fallen ill with the suspicion falling on meat contaminated with Clenbuterol.
Officials in Seyé, in the Mexican state of Yucatan, said the incident involves up to 500
Continue Reading Hundreds sick in Mexico linked to Clenbuterol in meat
Public health officials have found that fresh organic strawberries linked to hepatitis A outbreaks in the United States and Canada were imported from Mexico.
Investigators in the United States and Canada are continuing to work
Continue Reading Grower says organic strawberries linked to hepatitis A outbreak were from Mexico
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced Friday that its avocado inspection program in Michoacan, Mexico, has restarted and avocado exports to the United States have resumed following a
Continue Reading U.S. again allows import of Mexican avocados following threat against U.S. inspector
Although the issue is not specifically food safety, the import of avocados from a state in Mexico has been banned because of a safety threat against a U.S. official.
The move comes after a drug
Continue Reading Some Mexican avocados banned from U.S. import list; FDA alters import rules for some fruit juice, candy and seafood
Federal officials are continuing to investigate an outbreak of Salmonella Oranienburg infections traced to whole, fresh onions from Mexico, but the outbreak has been declared over with more than 1,000 people sickened.
In an update
Continue Reading Onion outbreak is over but FDA continues investigation; more than 1,000 sickened
Officials in Mexico are monitoring the U.S. investigation into a Salmonella outbreak associated with onions from the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
The Salmonella Oranienburg outbreak stretches across 37 states and has sickened 808 people, as
Continue Reading U.S. investigation into Salmonella outbreak under watchful eye of Mexico
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent modifications to FDA’s import alerts, as
Continue Reading Modified alerts target imported shrimp, papayas, canned crabmeat and more
