A little more than a week ago, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced the end of the Salmonella outbreak tied to Trader Joe’s peanut butter made by Sunland Inc. in New Mexico.
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The Petting Zoo Problem
Katie Maness was 13 years old when her parents took her and two friends to the 2004 North Carolina State Fair in Raleigh. It was a beautiful October day, as her mother Becky recalls years…
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Bittersweet News in NC Fair E. coli Outbreak
More than a month has passed since the first of the 106 victims in North Carolina’s Cleveland County Fair E. coli outbreak began showing symptoms of infection. This week brought bittersweet news regarding two of…
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Cantaloupe Victim’s Son Urges Washington to Act
Like many Americans, Paul Schwarz is fed up with the inaction in Washington, DC. After losing his father to the Listeria cantaloupe outbreak nearly a year ago, Schwarz has kept tabs on food safety policy…
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Case Count from Cantaloupe Outbreak Officially Rises to 147
With the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linking the Listeria illness, but not yet the death, of a 75-year-old Montana man to last year’s Listeria outbreak tied to Colorado cantaloupes, a CDC official…
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Man’s Death May Be Linked to Last Year’s Listeria Outbreak
Last fall’s outbreak of Listeria traced to cantaloupes from Jensen Farms in Colorado grew into one of the deadliest in U.S. history, causing at least 146 illnesses and 32 deaths. But as with any…
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Tempeh Salmonella Case Highlights Illnesses that Fall through the Cracks
Stopping at a café during a trip to Asheville, North Carolina with family this past March, Mary Ann Hurtado decided to order a veggie sandwich while everyone else chose something with meat. It was a…
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County Approves Food Code after Testimony from Young E. coli Victim
When Arizona’s Yavapai County Board of Supervisors were first asked to consider approving the 2009 FDA Food Code on June 4, two of the three board members spoke strongly against it. They characterized the code,…
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Gulf Spill Trial Delayed
Bon Secour Fisheries Inc., located east of Alabama’s Mobile Bay, was one of the first to sue BP after 2010’s Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Today, Bon Secour was to get its day in court along…
Publisher’s Platform: Death by Cantaloupe
Each of the above died because they ate a Listeria-tainted cantaloupe in the United States of America in 2011. And these are only my clients, not all of the 36 who died.
To the growers…