The FDA has published the following warning: Consumers worldwide should not use any ByHeart brand infant formula as all ByHeart products are included in this recall. As we know, as of November 26, 2025, a total of 37 infants with suspected or confirmed infant botulism and confirmed exposure to ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula (various […]
In past Jimmy John’s sprout E. coli and Salmonella cases, young people – especially college students – seem to have been disproportionately hit. With at least three Jimmy John’s in East Lansing, and one student sick, I wonder how many of the 2, or 7, will be part of the count. The Michigan departments of […]
So says Jimmy himself: “I agree wich ya, we no longer serve sprouts, sprout supplies were inconsistent.” I guess so. Multistate Jimmy John’s Restaurants Raw Clover Sprouts 2011 14 Sickened (possibly 19) – On February 15, 2012, the Centers for Disease Control announced an ongoing investigation into illnesses linked to the consumption of raw clover […]
Romney does not seem like a sprout eater, but he might change his mind on that. Santorum likely thinks that sprouts are from the devil, and they likely are. Gingrich does not look like he eats many vegetables. Paul on the other hand, I could see eating sprouts as he swigs a large glass of […]
Special Concerns of the Elderly The occurrence of bacterial infection is a function of several major variables: (1) the virulence of the bacterial pathogen, that is, its ability to cause severe disease; (2) how the pathogen is transmitted to the “host”—for example, whether it is airborne, foodborne, blood borne, etc.; and (3) host susceptibility—i.e. how […]
A total of 14 persons infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O26 have been reported from 5 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Iowa (5), Missouri (3), Kansas (2), Michigan (2), Arkansas (1), and Wisconsin (1). Among persons for whom information is available, illness onset dates range […]
New Jersey Department of Health reported that it currently has two residents that are ill in connection to a major outbreak caused by the consumption of raw milk from a Pennsylvania farm, Family Cow Dairy. Currently 78 people in four states have become ill with campylobacteriosis, a gastrointestinal illness, from the consumption of the raw […]
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, shippers, brokers, auditors and retailers who supplied those cantaloupes in the summer of 2001, shame on you. You will have […]
Taco Bell – “Mexican-style fast-food restaurant chain” – Salmonella Outbreak A 22-year-old Oklahoma woman who says she contracted salmonella after eating at Taco Bell has sued the fast-food company. Leah Smith claims she became sick while attending a University of Oklahoma football game last fall, two days after eating at a Taco Bell in Norman. […]
Yesterday I wrote “The Deadly 2011 Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak – My View Part 6 – Conclusion.” This was my conclusion to a six part series on the deadly listeria cantaloupe outbreak. At the time that the CDC completed its investigation in early December 2011, only thirty deaths were reported: Colorado (8), Indiana (1), Kansas (3), […]
The Outbreak 4. On February 15, 2012, the Centers for Disease Control announced an ongoing investigation into illnesses linked to the consumption of raw clover sprouts consumed at Jimmy John’s Restaurants in several states. 5. Among 11 ill persons with information available, 10 (91%) reported eating at a Jimmy John’s sandwich restaurant in the 7 […]
We are now in the middle of yet another Jimmy John’s sprout outbreak. And, just over a year ago we posted this Press Release: Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, announced today that it is pledging $10,000 to the International Sprout Growers Association (ISGA) to assist in the development of a safer method for […]
We the undersigned are writing to offer another perspective on Michael Taylor, the deputy commissioner for foods at the Food and Drug Administration, and the subject of a petition that SignOn.org, which is sponsored by MoveOn.org, is circulating on the Internet. The petition attacks Taylor based on his former employment at the controversial agricultural biotechnology […]
I have a routine when I am home on the Island (which is not that often). I get up early and make the coffee – OK, after I turn on the computer and check my email for the latest food safety disaster. Last Friday when I was about to take my first sip, the room […]
Hopefully, Parts 1 through 5 showed that there was plenty of blame to go around to farmers, shippers, brokers, auditors, retailers and the government, and that with just some simple precautions and focus, this outbreak would never have occurred. On December 8, 2011, the CDC determined that deadliest foodborne illness outbreak was officially over and […]
Linda DeGraaf, a client from the 2009 Jimmy John’s (a.k.a., Restaurant A) Salmonella Sprout Outbreak, took it upon herself to ask Jimmy John’s this question by email: As someone who was sickened by the salmonella outbreak from sprouts in 2009 from a Jimmy Johns sandwich, I feel it is time for you to remove sprouts […]