An outbreak already infecting 77 people in 26 states with Salmonella Heidelberg prompted an unusual public health alert late Friday about the “critical importance” of safe handling of ground turkey.
Oregon’s politically powerful George family, owners of the George Packing Co. in Newberg, was probably expecting the July 15 warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Wyoming’s troubling Campylobacter uptick appears to be edging off a bit and is not in any way connected to the other larger campy hotspot on the U.S.-Mexico
A Houston company is recalling products made with fresh cut papaya in connection with the multistate outbreak of Salmonella Agona.
GHSW of Houston said it was notified that papayas used
Tests on packages of sprouts, seeds, wash water and processing surfaces at an Idaho sprout-growing operation did not turn up evidence of Salmonella that federal and state regulators have attributed
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says tests did not detect Campylobacter in samples from a South Carolina raw milk dairy that public health investigators suspect made eight people
News sources were reporting Tuesday that the E. coli O104:H4 outbreak that killed as many as 50 people and sickened thousands has ended. The Robert Koch Institute (RKI), the
The Salmonella Agona bacteria causing illnesses linked to imported papayas also cropped up in 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Tuesday, but the source of that outbreak
A Texas produce company has been ordered to pay $1.1 million in damages to the family of a man who died after eating contaminated celery from a San Antonio
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is stepping up tests on papayas imported from Mexico as it investigates a Salmonella outbreak in 23 states involving 97 cases of food
Firefighters train by burning empty houses and pilots practice emergency landings. But foodborne illness response teams aren’t called into action until a real crisis is at hand. Until now,
Salmonella-contaminated frogs from a breeder in Madera County, CA have now made 241 people throughout the United States sick, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. The CDC