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Uncommon bacteria found in Gulf area by Mississippi-CDC investigation

By News Desk on July 29, 2022

The Mississippi State Department of Health, through a joint investigation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has discovered for the first time in the United States an uncommon bacteria that causes melioidosis.

Melioidosis…

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Federal court orders property seized in immigration raid returned to Koch Foods

By Dan Flynn on March 31, 2020

Koch Foods’ property seized in August 2019 by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from the company’s chicken processing plant in Morton, MS, must be returned, according to U.S. District Court Judge Carlton W. Reeves.
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Denver resident is latest death in hepatitis A outbreak

By News Desk on September 14, 2019

Two months after Denver declared its outbreak of hepatitis A, the viral disease has taken the life of a resident of the Mile High City.

“Deaths from hepatitis A are rare, but they can occur,…
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The ban against lab-grown food using “meat’ on the label grows to 7 states

By Dan Flynn on April 5, 2019

Since late last year when Missouri became the first state to ban lab-grown food from being labeled as “meat,”  laws in five more states have put the same labeling limits on these emerging technologies and…
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3 states join contested Missouri ban on using “meat” on cell-cultured product labels

By Dan Flynn on April 3, 2019

While lawyers continue talking in Missouri, lawmakers in at least three more states have passed bills to legally prohibit “mislabeling” of food products derived from animal cultures, plants or insects as meat.

Mississippi Gov, Phil…
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Legislatures Weigh Bills on Soda Labels, Microbeads, Marijuana, Powdered Alcohol, Among Others

By Dan Flynn on February 19, 2015

State legislatures remain in session from Alabama to Wyoming, with food safety mostly getting only a light touch from lawmakers who seem largely focused on budgets and education in this non-election year. In Alabama,…
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59 in Mississippi Ill from Salmonella Tied to One Restaurant

By Dan Flynn on December 14, 2011

The Salmonella outbreak in Corinth has now been pinned on a single restaurant, so there is no threat to the general public in northeast Mississippi, the state health department advises.

But the Don Julio Mexican…
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Source Unknown in Mississippi Salmonella Cases

By News Desk on December 8, 2011

It is not unusual for Mississippi’s 82 counties to log 200 confirmed cases of Salmonella a month, yet a cluster of 11 cases that has popped up in the northeast town of Corinth is getting…

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Feds Declare Gulf Fisheries Disaster

By Dan Flynn on May 25, 2010

Sample test results of oysters and water will be on the agenda today when the Louisiana Oyster Task Force meets in New Orleans.  It comes a day after the federal government reportedly issued a fisheries…
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