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 […]
Checking in to the Burj Al Arab at 11:00 PM Friday after a flight from Seattle to Atlanta and Atlanta to Dubai, left me a few more hours to tweak by Power Point for my lunch time speech at the Dubai Food Safety Conference on Monday. Hopefully, the attendees will be paying attention to my […]
Most state health departments encourage consumers to report food poisoning incidents to local health departments. Food Safety News has provided links (see below) to pages on state health department or public health association Web sites where you can directly report a foodborne illness, or where you can obtain contact information to report your illness to […]
The IAFP Foundation, through a contribution from Marler Clark, will fully support travel, hotel and registration expenses for up to four state or local health or state agricultural department employees to attend IAFP 2011. Click here for the Awards criteria and Application form. (Note: the application deadline for this award only is April 5, 2011.) […]
Welcome to outbreakdatabase.com, a searchable database of illness outbreaks caused by one or more of the following 1. consumption of contaminated foods or beverages, 2. exposure to animals, 3. exposure to contaminated recreational water, 4. person-to-person contact with someone whose illness initiated from animal exposure or consumption of contaminated foods and beverages. The Centers for […]
Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., (a.k.a., the god of food safety epidemiology) wrote today in the New England Journal of Medicine – “Foodborne Disease in 2011 — The Rest of the Story” today. Here are the highlights: So will the Food Safety Modernization Act result in immediate improvements in food safety? The legislation brings long […]
It is great to have the best and most experienced foodborne illness epidemiologist in any law firm in the United States a few doors down the hall.
If there ever was a reason (in addition to the risk of bio-terrorism) to apply more resources to national and state surveillance of bacterial outbreaks, the 2008 Salmonella outbreak that sickened 1500 people in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada is one that I hear (from consumers and industry) most often. Now thanks […]
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) sent a letter Tuesday to Attorney General Eric Holder, requesting information on the Department’s investigation into the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA). In 2009, more than 2,000 products containing peanuts processed at PCA were recalled for possible salmonella contamination. A Food and Drug Administration report stated that PCA […]
The Tests – According to tests on 20 grocery store chickens, picking up a package of chicken in Asda, Morrisons, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury’s and Tesco could put you at risk of food poisoning. E. coli was found on one of the chickens from Sainsbury’s. Staphylococcus aureus, an MRSA-related bacteria that can cause wound infections, […]
With nearly two decades of foodborne illness litigation behind us, tens of thousand of clients and hundreds of experts involved in those cases, we have developed what I hope is a lot of good information about the state of food illness in the Untied States. Botulism Botulism Blog Campylobacter About Campylobacter Campylobacter Blog E. coli […]
Now, that is a shock. But, according to research supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; the University of Maine Agricultural and Forest Experiment Station; the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center; and the Marvin and June Morrison Chair in Agribusiness at Arizona State University, that is exactly what was found. According to […]
I did get up a bit too early this morning, but just in time to see Elizabeth Cohen at CNN report – “US: Restaurant workers show up sick:” One out of eight restaurant workers has come to work at least twice in the past year while suffering from diarrhea or vomiting, according to a new […]
I heard the fears of the small, local, sustainable, locavore regarding the Food Safety Modernization Act, which is why exclusions for on-farm sales and sales at farmer’s markets, and direct sales to grocery stores and restaurants were added, along with additional protections with the Tester/Hagen Amendment. However, it appears that what some in the movement […]
MPR Radio has become “Milk Public Radio” for its ongoing coverage of raw milk bad boy, Michael Hartmann, and his ongoing battle with state of Minnesota officials for raw milk sales and the customers sickened by E. coli, Campylobacter and Cryptosporidium. Mr. Hartmann is now facing potential jail time and/or a fine for failing to […]
Comments on my blog, and other sites I am sure, tend to be made by people who disagree with a point made. My bet is that you seldom hear from people who agree with you (although it has been known to happen). On my blog, I have tried to have a policy of allowing all […]