According to Dayton Daily News, one of the victims, 73-year old man, of an E. coli outbreak linked to a July 3 picnic in Germantown has died, health officials said this morning. UPDATE: According to WDTN, Lowell Draffen, former superintendent of a handful of area school districts died Monday night. Draffen served as superintendent at […]
The CDC reports that a total of 37 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Hadar have been reported from 11 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Arizona (2), California (1), Colorado (3), Idaho (5), Illinois (2), Oregon (5), Tennessee (2), Texas (1), Utah (5), Washington (9), […]
UPDATE Retail Sales List: Hunter’s Shop ‘n Save 60 South Main Street Wolfeboro NH-New Hampshire Will’s Shop N’ Save 22 North Street Dover-Foxcroft ME-Maine Gray Shop N’ Save 35 Portland Road Gray ME-Maine Hannaford Stores in MA, ME, NH, NY, VT The CDC reports that a total of 33 persons infected with the outbreak strain […]
Dayton & Montgomery County Public Health is continuing to gather information. Investigators are also looking at food sources, food handling and storage practices, food temperature controls, and the potential of cross contamination of the food. As a result of eating food at a picnic at Neff’s Lawn Care in Germantown, at least 75 individuals have […]
Cargill Meat Solutions Ground Turkey 2011 The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a public health alert, on July 29, due to concerns about illnesses caused by Salmonella Heidelberg that associated with the use and the consumption of ground turkey …Read More » Cargill Meat Solutions/BJ’s Wholesale Club Ground Beef […]
Hannaford Stores in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, New York and Vermont named as one retail outlet linked to Cargill Meat Solutions recall of 29,339 pounds of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis. Twenty were sickened in 2011 by Hannaford ground beef tainted with Salmonella – See, Hannaford Hamburger Ground Beef […]
Cargill Beef, a business unit of Wichita-based Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation, today announced an immediate Class I voluntary recall of approximately 29,339 pounds of 85-percent-lean, fresh, ground beef produced at the company’s Wyalusing, Penn., facility on May 25, 2012, due to possible contamination from Salmonella Enteritidis. Cargill is initiating this recall as a result of […]
According to news reports, urine was discovered in county employees morning brew at the Anaconda Court House early last month. On June 7th, two county employees unknowingly drank the tainted coffee and are now being tested for hepatitis A, according to Connie Ternes Daniels, Anaconda-Deer Lodge interim chief executive. To make matters worse, four days […]
Wellements LLC is issuing a voluntary recall of Baby Move™ Prune Concentrate liquid dietary supplement, because the supplier of one of the ingredients used in the product has indicated that the ingredient has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or […]
A total of 18 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O145 infection were identified in 9 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state was as follows: Alabama (2), California (1), Florida (1), Georgia (5), Kentucky (1), Louisiana (5), Maryland (1), Tennessee (1), and Virginia (1). Four ill persons were hospitalized. […]
Romaine lettuce grown in California linked to Canadian outbreak too. Food Safety News reports that the nine Californian E. coli O157:H7 infections connected to an April romaine lettuce outbreak in Canada all occurred in Orange County, a spokesman for the California Department of Public Health confirmed to Food Safety News Thursday. The spokesman would not […]
CDC Public Health Law News: Do you see yourself as working in the area of public health law? Marler: I do. The civil justice system is the last, if not the only, bastion of Justice available to a person who becomes ill with a foodborne illness after eating contaminated food. I see my practice as […]
Prying information out of California and Canadian public health officals should not be how the public is informed about and E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. Coral Beach (what a great name) of the Packer continued the work of Food Safety News and eFoodert when she reported this morning that California health officials have traced romaine lettuce […]
As a result of eating food at a picnic at Neff’s Lawn Care in Germantown, at least 68 individuals have become ill. Of those, 14 have been hospitalized. Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County is continuing an investigation into the cause of the foodborne outbreak. Estimates are that as many as 300 people may […]
On June 30 I posted “What is California link to Canadian E. coli cases linked to Romaine Lettuce?” And, now slowly – very slowly – information is coming out – sort of. On July 13 Food Safety News reported: That in late April, at least 30 people fell ill with E. coli O157:H7 infections after […]