While West Virginia is suffering from devastating flooding, Florida, Georgia, and the southeast coast are dealing with Hurricane Idalia and its aftermath. In emergency situations like this, it’s important to remember vital food safety practices
Continue Reading Food Safety Tips for Hurricane and Flooding Safety
West Virginia officials have confirmed a patient with a Salmonella infection as a result of consuming a recalled powdered infant formula.
The state’s Department of Health and Human Resources announced confirmation of the infection today
Continue Reading State confirms Salmonella infection in outbreak linked to infant formula
JuJu Bakes LLC, doing business as “The Cookie Dough Cafe” of Bloomington, IL, is recalling 15 cases of 1.6-ounce “Chocolate Chip Chilled Gourmet Edible Cookie Dough Bars” because they may contain peanuts, which are not
Continue Reading Employee discovery prompts cookie dough recall for undeclared peanuts
Lingering death is the usual means for killing legislative bills, but there’s also the swift smackdown method. The Montana Legislature used that second method, also known as tabling, to cut down House Bills 516 and
Continue Reading Montana again smacks down efforts to legalize sales of unpasteurized milk
Responding to a request from Gov. Jim Justice, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has moved a 6-person team into West Virginia to help knock down an outbreak of Hepatitis A.
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Continue Reading WV gets help on the ground with Hepatitis A outbreak from CDC experts
West Virginia has had 98 confirmed cases of Hepatitis A so far this year, with some of them caused by the same strain of the liver virus that has sickened people across the country.
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Continue Reading Hepatitis A cases nearing 100 in WV; 3 out of 4 hospitalized
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated this outbreak on Friday afternoon to a total of 119 cases of Hepatitis A from eight states. Forty-seven of these individuals have been hospitalized, but
Continue Reading CDC reports 119 people from 8 states have Hepatitis A linked to smoothies
There’s good news out of West Virginia in the wake of a state delegate’s illegal distribution of raw milk in the halls of the Mountain State’s Capitol. As I mentioned in this space in late
Continue Reading Beach Beat: Cheers to West Virginia’s Bureau of Public Health
What’s more ironic than a raw milk fan sharing unpasteurized milk with fellow legislators in celebration of a new herd-share law and having the toasts coincidentally followed by an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness? One of
Continue Reading Capitol crud or unpasteurized pathogens, a gut-wrenching tale
A law permitting shared animal ownership agreements as the legal vessel for consuming raw milk has been singed into law in West Virginia by Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin. Last year, the Democratic governor vetoed a
Continue Reading Animal ownership agreements offer a route to raw milk in WV
