A bakery in New Mexico is on notice from the FDA for failing to take required steps to ensure that food handling techniques, facility cleaning and sanitization, and pest protection are in accordance with food
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NM food handlers, foodservice operators face new regs
Foodservice operations such as restaurants, hotels, hospitals, schools and prisons in New Mexico face a March 1 deadline to meet new state food safety requirements, but they’ve already had a year’s grace period to get
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New Mexico parasite infection outbreak linked to raw milk
For the first time since CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report last year documented two siblings with cryptosporidiosis associated with raw milk consumption, a state is blaming an invasion of the microscopic parasites on raw
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CDC Update: 4 Deaths, 767 Salmonella Cases in 36 States Linked to Cucumbers
Oct. 14 update: CDC has again updated the Salmonella Poona outbreak linked to imported Mexican cucumbers. The latest case count is 767 people infected from 36 states (the state added to the list is Florida).
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CDC: Salmonella Outbreak Has Sickened 50 People in 9 States
At least 50 people in the southwestern U.S. have been sickened with a rare strain of Salmonella that has been associated with consumption of raw tuna sushi in several states, according to the U.S. Centers
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Arizona Reports Nine-Case Outbreak From Rare Strain of Salmonella
Maricopa County, AZ, is reporting nine illnesses from a rare strain of Salmonella paratypi which officials say is associated with raw minced or ground tuna used in sushi. Disease onset for the nine AZ cases
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6 New Mexico Salmonella Cases Possibly Linked to Sushi
The New Mexico Department of Health, the City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department, and the New Mexico Environment Department are investigating a cluster of illness caused by Salmonella Paratyphi. There have been six
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New Mexico Legislature Lets Partial ‘Ag-Gag’ Bill Languish
A New Mexico bill requiring anyone making video or digital recordings of livestock injuries to submit the recording to law enforcement within 24 hours has been allowed to languish in the state Senate Judiciary Committee.
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Tour of State Legislatures Finds Spotty Interest in Food Safety Issues
Since 2010, there have been waves of bills involving food and food safety washing through state capitals on subjects such as cottage foods, agricultural security, raw milk, and labeling food products containing genetically modified ingredients.
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Food-Safety Bills Start Popping up in State Legislatures
A Republican legislator in New Mexico wants to bail out the state’s school lunch program by using tax money to purchase $1.4 million in locally grown fruits and vegetables, which would then be provided to
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Former Top U.S. Organic Peanut Butter Plant Now Stands Idle
Before the foodborne disease outbreak two years ago that spread Salmonella Bredeney infections to 20 states, Portales, NM, could brag about Sunland Inc. being the nation’s largest producer of organic peanut butter. Now in bankruptcy,
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