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 […]
I am at the National Environmental Health Association (NEHA) 75th Annual Convention and proud to talk about the risks of raw milk. Here are my PowerPoint and Handout you can download for “Raw Milk on Trial.” Happy Father’s Day. For more information on the risks of raw milk, see Real Raw Milk Facts.
According to Mac McLean, an E. coli outbreak involving E. coli O157:H7, E. coli O103 and E. coli O169 and outbreak that’s plagued Northeast Tennessee since mid-May has sickened two more people – bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the eight-county Northeast Tennessee region so far this year to 15. On June 5, […]
The family of a woman killed in an Athens Ohio Salmonella outbreak will file a lawsuit Monday in the Athens County Court of Common Please against the Athens-based restaurant Casa Lopez. The suit is the second filed by Seattle-based food poisoning law firm Marler Clark on behalf of victims made ill in a 2010 Salmonella […]
Kudo’s to KXXV for confirming that at least 11 people became sick after eating at Jason’s Deli in Killeen, Texas. Doctors confirmed five of them had a strain of the bacteria escherichia coli (O157:H7) that has been known to result in hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS), a potentially fatal complication that can lead to kidney failure. Two […]
I was just finishing up my speech this morning at the National Environmental Health Association Conference in Columbus, Ohio when I got this video via one of my followers on twitter: I can only assume that this is not a joke – although it should be. This is disturbing at several levels.
Mac McLean of the Herald Courier is quickly becoming the go to reporter on the E. coli cases that are adding up in Eastern Tennessee and Southwestern Virginia. Mac McLean wrote that the outbreak that has plagued Northeast Tennessee since mid-May has sickened two more people – bringing the total number of confirmed cases in […]
From a Press Release Laboratory test results show that the Campylobactor jejuni bacteria that caused diarrheal illness among 16 individuals who drank unpasteurized (raw) milk at a school event early this month in Raymond was the same bacteria strain found in unpasteurized milk produced at a local farm, according to officials from the Department of […]
USA Today reports that French authorities are investigating two new suspected cases of E. coli linked to hamburger patties that have already sickened seven children. French authorities have ordered a recall of 10 tons of the frozen beef patties produced in France and sold by the German supermarket chain Lidl. Italian authorities confiscated more than […]
Investigations by the German authorities indicate that the vehicle of the bacterium responsible for the outbreak, enteroaggregative verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (EAggEC VTEC) O104:H4, is bean and seed sprouts. The Robert Koch Institute has warned people in Germany not to eat raw bean and seed sprouts of any origin. The earliest onset of diarrhea was the […]
I get a lot of emails and comments, most saying things that I tend not to print. However, this email I got this morning is one of the more disturbing one I have received lately: There is a program run by USDA called the microbiological data program (MDP) (www.ams.usda.gov/mdp). This program collects fresh produce samples […]
KOMO TV reports that four people have contracted E. coli (presumably E. coli O157:H7) after visiting an animal petting farm in Snohomish County, officials say. Two children and two adults have been infected, say officials with the city of Everett and the Snohomish County Health District. The petting farm was identified as the city of […]
Eight children have been hospitalized in France with E. coli infections after eating meat that manufacturer SEB said came from Germany, Belgium and Holland and slaughtered and processed in France. The children, the youngest of whom is 20 months old, had eaten defrosted hamburgers. One child has developed HUS. A spokesman for the Regional Health […]
Organic bean sprouts from the Gaertnerhof Bienenbuettel farm near Uelzen, Germany, about 35 miles (56 kilometers) southeast of Hamburg (seems pretty local) have been link to the 39 Dead, 826 with HUS and 3,406 Ill in what has become the second largest, but mostly deadly, E. coli outbreak in history. If you think that the […]
Last night the E. coli O104:H4 toll was – 38 Dead, 824 with HUS, 3351 Ill – Massachusetts, Michigan, and Wisconsin with 5, this morning. The new numbers on the E. coli Sprout Outbreak – 39 Dead, 826 with HUS and 3,406 Ill and the numbers hold steady in the U.S.
According to the European Food Safety authority, 821 HUS cases, including 24 deaths, and 2,530 non-HUS cases, including 13 deaths, have been reported. Germany reports two new HUS cases and 17 new non-HUS STEC cases. Germany also reports a new HUS death. In Luxembourg, one STEC case developed HUS. However, according to press reports, a […]