We filed a Salmonella lawsuit (2:12-cv-01508) today against Splendid Products of Burlingame, California, the distributor of Daniella mangoes that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Center for Disease Control and Prevention have identified as the source of a nationwide Salmonella Braenderup outbreak in August 2012. To date the Salmonella Braenderup outbreak has sickened 204 in […]
There is no easy way to get to Ithaca from Seattle, but diner at Marion Nestle’s and Malden Nesheim’s on the shores of Lake Cayuga was well worth the trip on Labor Day. Today, I got a quick tour of the campus (see, the Andrew Dickson White library) from Professor Robert Gravani of the Cornell […]
I got this email today while I was teaching at Cornell: While I appreciate the extra press directed at MDP, you should know that the samples in question were NOT taken nor tested by MDP personnel, and were not part of the MDP sampling regimen at all. This sample was taken as part of the […]
Ouch! That was the opening sentence in the National Law Journal’s Jenna Greene’s article this morning – “Ripe for litigation.” (You need a subscription to read the article). With Listeria-tainted cantaloupe killing at least 33 and sickening 147 last year according to the CDC, and with the CDC tracking 2 dead and 204 sickened (so […]
Shortly after I resolved the 1996 Odwalla E. coli O157:H7 outbreak on behalf of five kids that suffered Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS), and long before Google became synonymous with searching on the Internet, we had compiled more information about this nasty bug, and its frightening and potentially deadly impact, than anyone outside a few major […]
It started out this week with produce distributor Splendid Products voluntarily recalling certain lots of Daniella brand mangoes because they may be contaminated with Salmonella braenderup. The recalled mangoes, a product of Mexico, were sold as individual fruit and can be identified by the Daniella brand sticker and one of the following PLU numbers: 3114, […]
Over the last weeks the CDC and FDA have reported that a total of 204 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 22 states linked to cantaloupe grown in Indiana. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (13), Arkansas (5), California (2), Florida […]
A total of 204 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 22 states linked to cantaloupes. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (13), Arkansas (5), California (2), Florida (1), Georgia (4), Illinois (24), Indiana (22), Iowa (8), Kentucky (63), Massachusetts (2), Michigan […]
California hardest hit. The CDC reports that 105 have been sickened by Salmonella-tainted Mangoes. The recalled mangoes were packed in Mexico and distributed by Splendid Products in Burlingame, California and by North American Produce Sales, Vancouver, BC. The mangoes were sold between July 12, 2012 and August 29, 2012 throughout the United States and Canada. […]
A total of 204 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 22 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alabama (13), Arkansas (5), California (2), Florida (1), Georgia (4), Illinois (24), Indiana (22), Iowa (8), Kentucky (63), Massachusetts (2), Michigan (6), Minnesota (5), […]
A total of 105 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Braenderup have been reported to PulseNet from 16 states since July 1, 2012. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: California (80), Delaware (1), Hawaii (3), Idaho (1), Illinois (1), Louisiana (1), Maine (1), Michigan (1), Montana (1), […]
My apologies to George Santayana. Of course cantaloupes and salmonella are fresh on our minds, as the CDC reports a total of 178 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 21 states. 62 ill persons have been hospitalized and two deaths have been reported in Kentucky. And, of course […]
As of today, there have been 21 confirmed cases of Salmonella Braenderup in Canada with 16 in British Columbia and 5 in Alberta according to the Public Health Agency of Canada. In the US the CDC reported today that a total of 103 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Braenderup have been reported […]
Ingredient 1- Mangoes According to efoodalert, Food Safety News and Lola, as of August 22, 2012 there have been 22 confirmed cases of Salmonella Braenderup in Canada with 17 in British Columbia and 5 in Alberta. In the US, 101 cases of Salmonella Braenderup have been reported. Affected states reporting illnesses due to the outbreak […]
After the final update on December 8, investigators learned that a Listeria isolate that had been isolated from a sample of cut cantaloupe from a patient’s home during the outbreak investigation had a PFGE pattern combination that was different from the four known pattern combinations in the outbreak. A search of the PulseNet database for […]