According to a new report, Public health officials could detect a Salmonella outbreak traced to a Utah outbreak by using open-ended interviews.
The outbreak patients who became ill from Oct. 1, 2023, through Jan. 9, 2024, all ate at the restaurant, which is not explicitly identified in the Centers for
Continue Reading Investigators credit open-ended interviews in the identification of the Salmonella outbreak
Public health officials have determined that an outbreak of E. coli infections in a Utah city were caused by untreated municipal irrigation water.
In July through September 2023, there were 13 children confirmed with infections. Seven of the patients required hospitalization and two developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a type of
Continue Reading Investigators determine that E. coli outbreak was caused by untreated home irrigation water
Investigators have identified Utah Natural Meat and Milk as the source of unpasteurized raw milk that has sickened people in the state.
At least 14 people have contracted infections from Campylobacter, according to the Utah Department of Health and Human Services. One patient who was hospitalized has been released. Patients
Continue Reading Utah officials identify raw milk dairy responsible for more than a dozen illnesses
Public health officials in Salt Lake County are investigating an outbreak associated with raw, unpasteurized milk.
The Salt Lake County Health Department has confirmed 14 people with infections from campylobacter. All but two of the patients reported drinking raw milk before becoming sick, according to a notice from the department.
Continue Reading Raw milk identified as cause of campylobacteriosis outbreak in Utah
Big J Mill & Elevator Company, Incorporated, of Brigham City, UT, is recalling Golden Loaf Bakers Flour Unbleached Flour and Big J All Purpose Flour Unbleached Flour because the products may contain filth. The recall does not give more details on the type of filth.
According to the details posted
Continue Reading Flour recalled in Utah over filth in product
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday entered into domestic mutual reliance agreements with California, Florida, Utah and Wisconsin.
Mutual reliance agreements mark a coordinated effort between the FDA and individual states with goals to reduce human foodborne illness outbreaks, reduce duplication of regulatory oversight, and increase public health
Continue Reading FDA inks mutual reliance agreements with California, Florida, Utah, Wisconsin
A man who was sickened by contaminated sprouts on a Jimmy John’s sandwich has been given permission by a Utah judge to seek punitive damages in a case related to his 2020 illness.
Travis Knorr and his wife Aimee Knorr filed the civil case in Utah’s Third Judicial District Court
Continue Reading Jimmy John’s franchisee could have to pay punitive damages in E. coli case
Utah is the eighth state to require that egg-laying hens be kept in cage-free systems by 2025. Gov. Spencer J. Cox signed Senate Bill 147 into law on March 17.
Earlier it passed 25-2 in the Senate with two absent. It was approved 63-to-7 by the House with five not
Continue Reading Utah adopts cage-free law with 2025 start date
Kent Quality Foods Inc. of Grand Rapids, Michigan has recalled approximately 48,681 pounds of ready-to-eat polish sausage with beef products that may be contaminated with extraneous materials, “specifically pieces of flexible pink rubber,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) reports.
The firm received two complaints
Continue Reading 48,000 pounds of polish sausage with beef recalled for plastic bits
Let’s just call it over. Animal agriculture has lost another one. And this one looks to be the match.
Iowa’s “agriculture production facility fraud” law was struck down by a federal judge on Jan. 9. Three different federal judges have now struck down “ag-gag” laws in Idaho, Utah and
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