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 […]
Yesterday I was speaking to a mother of a child who recently developed Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome as a result of consuming a raw milk product. It is evident from her grief that she felt she was doing something healthful for her child and had no idea of the risks that a raw milk product contain. […]
As I picked the sprouts off my sandwich today, I asked the waiter if she had ever heard about sprout related outbreaks – especially this last Summer’s outbreak in Germany, that left 50 dead, nearly 1,000 with acute kidney failure and another 3,000 sickened. Clearly annoyed, she said “no.” The CDC says that children, the […]
The Mississippi State Department of Health says 59 customers and employees of Don Julio Mexican Restaurant in Corinth have tested positive for salmonella. The department says Tuesday that the restaurant remains closed until an improvement plan is approved by health officials. Dr. Jessie R. Taylor, a district health officer, says the source of the salmonella […]
I remember being at a international food safety conference last year and talking to someone from the EU Food Safety Authority about the difficulty of coordinating foregin states in foodborne illness outbreaks. We do have the same problems – at times – here in the US with at least 50 Ministries of Health. However, many […]
Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak Tops List in Annual Survey Commissioned by Hunter Public Relations According to Hunter Public Relations, Food safety tops the list of its annual survey asking Americans to choose the most significant food story of 2011. Even in a year when global food prices hit record highs and both restaurant menus and retail […]
While many of us have been wondering what the Kardashians will do next, or who will be cut from dancing with the stars, or what silly thing the Republican Presidential race will bring next, The CDC’s Outbreak Response Team has been busy protecting us, or at least figuring out what happened afterwards. The CDC’s Outbreak […]
I was casually reading my copy of the Journal of Infectious Disease (I know, why not People Magazine) and found this article – “A Novel Vehicle for Transmission of Escherichia coli O157:H7 to Humans: Multistate Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Infections Associated With Consumption of Ready-to-Bake Commercial Prepackaged Cookie Dough—United States, 2009.” Since I lived […]
Germ Girl (a.k.a. Maryn McKenna) posted this dire warning yesterday. Apparently, the Wyoming Department of Health was notified of two laboratory-confirmed cases of Campylobacter jejuni enteritis among persons working at a local sheep ranch. During June, two men had reported onset of symptoms compatible with campylobacteriosis. Both patients had diarrhea, and one also had abdominal […]
Or, at least they are happy not to live in China. The AP headline out of China this morning was shocking – “China farmer gets death penalty for poisoning milk.” I am not much of a fan of the death penalty. And, there are clear dissimilarities between what happened in China and the two E. […]
With the CDC coming in with the final numbers for the Cantaloupe Outbreak, I thought it would be a good time to update the list: Jensen Farms Frontera Listeria Outbreak – September 2011; Vehicle: whole cantaloupe; Number ill: 146; Deaths: 30 (31, counting miscarriages) Jalisco’s Listeria Outbreak – January 1985; Vehicle: cheese; Number ill: 142; […]
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), Iowa (1), Kansas (11), Louisiana (2), […]
Yesterday I spoke to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about the CDC’s announcement of the link between Romaine lettuce, 10 states and 60 ill: A Seattle attorney who specializes in food-borne illness cases said he plans to file a lawsuit against Schnucks and other companies in the distribution chain within days on behalf of a St. […]
Earlier today the CDC confirmed that 60 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 have been reported from 10 states linked to the consumption of romaine lettuce. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Arizona (1), Arkansas (2), Georgia (1), Illinois (9), Indiana (2), Kansas (3), Kentucky […]
As of December 4, 2011, 60 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 have been reported from 10 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Arizona (1), Arkansas (2), Georgia (1), Illinois (9), Indiana (2), Kansas (3), Kentucky (1), Minnesota (3), Missouri (37), and Nebraska (1). […]
United States v. Park 421 U.S. 658 (U.S. Sup. Ct. 1975) was decided just a few months after I graduated from High School, and long before I decided (as one food pundit coined), to become the “the Assassin in Armani” – at least to the food industry. Park is an interesting (and seldom used) case […]