The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for various Farmstead Butcher Block not-ready-to-eat pork and beef bacon products because of sodium nitrite levels exceeding the regulatory limit.
Consumption of hazardous amounts of sodium nitrites can lead to life-threatening illness and/or
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is helping Canadian officials investigate an outbreak of norovirus infections and is recommending that consumers avoid eating certain oysters to avoid infection.
The FDA is also warning restaurants and retailers to not sell the implicated oysters. If oysters are not in their original packaging
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USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a public health alert for heat-treated, not fully cooked, not shelf stable, spaghetti, and meatballs in marinara sauce products due to concerns that the products may be contaminated with extraneous material, specifically metal.
The metal was discovered by consumers who then
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert because Bluegrass Provisions Co., a Crescent Springs, Ky. establishment, produced sausage products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. A recall was not requested because it is believed that all products are
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