The Food and Drug Administration continues to investigate four foodborne illness outbreaks, two from Salmonella and two from Listeria monocytogenes.
For an outbreak of Salmonella Newport, the number of patients stands at 29, up two from this past week. The FDA has not reported how old the patients are or
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The FDA is investigating an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis infections traced to frozen mini pastries. The outbreak is associated with a similar situation in Canada.
In the United States there are 18 confirmed patients with one of them requiring hospitalization, according to the Food and Drug Administration. There are 69
Continue Reading New Salmonella outbreak in U.S. linked to imported pastries; Canadian outbreak caused by same strain of pathogenWalmart has recalled its eight-count packages of cruller bakery pastries because the common name of milk was not listed following sodium caseinate, a milk derivative, on the ingredient label.
People who have milk allergies and do not recognize sodium caseinate as a milk derivative run the risk of serious or
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Rio Grande Imports of Copiague NY is recalling 50 cases of Semita de Piña because the pastries may contain undeclared dairy.
The problem was discovered during routine sampling by New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets food inspectors. Subsequent analysis by the Department’s Food Laboratory personnel revealed the presence
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A foodborne illness investigation in Rhode Island has prompted a recall of cream-filled baked goods suspected as the cause of a Salmonella outbreak that may involve at least 19 people, the state’s Department of Health reported Saturday.
In a news release, the Rhode Island Department of Health said nine
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A Salmonella outbreak in Australia has sickened at least 60 people and is linked to custard-filled pastries.
According to Australia’s ABC news, public health authorities are testing samples from two Adelaide bakeries and investigators suspect that the source of the the infections may be custard-filled berliner buns and custard-filled
