A recent report from the Food and Drug Administration has found that a sheep farm was likely a contributing factor in the contamination of onions.
The finding came when investigators searched for the cause of a 2020 outbreak of Salmonella Newport foodborne infections associated with red onions from the Southern
Continue Reading FDA reports on Salmonella outbreak linked to red onions
The Food and Drug Administration’s traceback investigation is ongoing but has identified Thomson International, Inc. of Bakersfield, CA as a likely source of the recent potentially contaminated onions.
FDA and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) along with state and local agencies are also investigating a multistate
Continue Reading Contaminated red onion source named as Salmonella Newport outbreak infects 879
(This article by Douglas Karas was first published in the October/November 2014 issue of Food Safety Magazine and is reposted here with permission.) In the spring of 2012, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) began to hear from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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