Jeffrey P. Havens, the former president of the Montana Environmental Health Association, is an expert in food safety who is relatively new to the legal arena. Michael D. Russell, an assistant attorney general, is an expert in defending the State of Montana, but he’s new to food safety.
In Jeffrey
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Montana is one of five states that ban the manufacture and sale of lab-grown meat, and the state is aggressively enforcing its ban.
Beef production is huge in Montana, with 23,800 farms and ranches with an average size of 2,412 acres, making the state’s agricultural sector larger than oil and
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About half the states have adopted so-called “Food Freedom” laws in the past few years. These laws generally recognize the right of individuals to produce and sell homemade foods without much regulation or concern about food safety. Only the contact information of the producer, ingredients in the product, and a
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A Montana school district has suspended the use of all fresh produce and fruit in response to a Salmonella outbreak.
The Great Falls Public Schools district is replacing fresh produce and fruits with dried and canned alternatives across all schools.
The outbreak among students in the Great Falls Public Schools
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Montana public health officials are investigating an outbreak of infections caused by Salmonella.
The Cascade City-County Health Department in Great Falls is reporting that six students at Sacajawea and Valley View elementary schools have tested positive for the pathogen. A staff member at another school has also tested positive. There
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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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The Flathead City-County Health Department (FCCHD) and the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services (DPHHS) have been working for the last month to investigate an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that has sickened 14, killing one, likely linked to a local Wagu ground beef producer. The
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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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THE E. COLI O157:H7 BACTERIA
A. Sources, Characteristics and Identification
E. coli is an archetypal commensal bacterial species that lives in mammalian intestines. E. coli O157:H7 is one of thousands of serotypes Escherichia coli.[1] The combination of letters and numbers in the name of the E. coli O157:H7
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Public health officials have signed off on an outbreak investigation in Montana saying that morel mushrooms were most likely what made dozens of people sick and killed two.
In addition to the two deaths, the outbreak traced to Dave’s Sushi in Bozeman, MT, sickened more than 50 people and sent
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