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 […]
Laboratory testing by the Department of Health has identified Clostridium perfringens as the cause of the outbreak associated with the Pierre-Mitchell high school boys’ basketball game held in Pierre January 31. The investigation, which included voluntary questionnaires, implicated the tacos as the source food of the outbreak – of those completing questionnaires, 75% who ate […]
Press reports tonight have Pennsylvania state health officials saying there are now 43 confirmed cases of Campylobacter infections linked to raw milk from a Franklin County farm. The confirmed cases of Campylobacter infection include 36 people in Pennsylvania, four in Maryland, two in West Virginia, and one in New Jersey. Officials announced last week that […]
There is a truism today (and perhaps it always has been that way) that if a document exists, even if you stamp “FOR INTERNAL DISTRIBUTION ONLY” on it, it will become public eventually. So, despite the silence from the CDC, FDA and eight states, here is the Taco Bell or “Mexican-style fast food restaurant chain, […]
Everyone remembers the New York Taco Bell restaurant rat problem: There were no reported illnesses. Despite the CDC and FDA not “naming names” at times, Taco Bell has a long history of problems. Thanks to Outbreak Database, here is a list: Multistate Taco Bell Restaurant Chain Unknown 2011 – 68 Ill – (CDC continues to […]
According to the CDC’s final report, a total of 146 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes were reported to CDC from 28 states. The number of infected persons identified in each state was as follows: Alabama (1), Arkansas (1), California (4), Colorado (40), Idaho (2), Illinois (4), Indiana (3), […]
Although the 2011 cantaloupe outbreak that sickened 146 and killed 30 (with an additional two dying over the last months) and one miscarriage was the first known Listeria outbreak associated with cantaloupe, cantaloupe outbreaks are by no means a new phenomenon. Since 1985, in fact, there have been no less than 15 recognized outbreaks (thanks […]
And, for that matter other amphibians and reptiles. CDC just released a new report entitled “Outbreak of Salmonellosis Associated with Pet Turtle Exposures — United States, 2011”. This report describes an outbreak of 132 human Salmonella infections between August 2010 and September 2011 associated with exposure to small turtles (those with shell lengths < 4 […]
According to AP, an outbreak of a Campylobacter bacterial infection due to consuming raw milk from a Edwin Shank’s Family Cow Farm in Pennsylvania is now linked to 38 illnesses in four states, The farm has temporarily suspended sales. Four are sick in Maryland according to the Maryland Department of Health. One person is sick […]
Michael Foods, Inc. is recalling specific lot dates of hard-cooked eggs in brine sold in 10- and 25-pound pails for institutional use that were produced at its Wakefield, Nebraska facility because the product has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections […]
From Seattle KCTS Public Television: Attorney, Lawyer and food-safety advocate Bill Marler talks about how his career has changed since the 1993 E. coli break in Seattle and his ongoing fight for tough food-safety laws.
Ethanol has long been promoted (especially by farm state Senators) as a solution to greenhouse gas emissions. In 2005, Congress passed the Renewable Fuel Standard, which mandated that 7.5 billion gallons of renewable fuel be blended into gasoline by 2012. Two years later it increased this amount to 36 billion gallons by 2022. Ethanol – […]
The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) continues to advise consumers who purchased raw milk produced by The Family Cow dairy in Chambersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, to discard any product purchased from this farm since January 1, 2012. The DHMH Laboratories Administration has confirmed the presence of Campylobacter jejuni in two unopened raw […]
Oklahoma State Department of Health Acute Disease Service Summary of Supplemental Questionnaire Responses Specific to Taco Bell Exposure of Oklahoma Outbreak-associated Cases Multistate Salmonella Enteritidis Outbreak Investigation November 2011 – January 2012 Summary Demographic information • 16 cases in 5 Oklahoma counties – Cleveland (10), Bryan (2), Lincoln (2), Pottawatomie (1), and Greer (1) • Onset […]
I do not drink raw milk, and suggest against it, and I would never suggest that children or the elderly drink it, (see, www.realrawmilkfacts.com for reasons why) but if I did, a guy like Ed Shank of Your Family Cow Dairy might get me to buy it from him. Right now, however, he has a […]
Is there a good reason to keep a companies name secret when it is linked to a foodborne illness outbreak? I have a great deal of respect for Robert Tauxe, MD, MPH, Deputy Director of the Division of the CDC that is charged with prevention and control of foodborne, waterborne and fungal infections. He has […]