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 […]
When the USDA/FSIS and the Beef Industry are taking a hit for a Kansas Columnist, they need wake up and to take a hard look what’s on the grill (bad mixed metaphor). Last week I had a long talk with Ric Anderson of the Topeka-Capital Journal for his opinion piece – “Burger story shows need […]
For my 2,500th post at Marler Blog, according to an CBS Poll, most Americans are at least somewhat confident that the food they buy to eat is safe, and while only one in four would give the country a grade of D or F on ensuring the safety of the food supply, few would give […]
Stephanie Gaskell of the New York Daily News reported last week that the “New York Times cafeteria food may be past its deadline.” According to the Daily News, “[t]he Health Dept. is investigating cases of possible food poisoning at the New York Times cafeteria. …The dining room at the paper’s headquarters on Eighth Ave. and […]
According to Newark health officials, Salmonella contamination caused many people to suffer food poisoning at Iberia Peninsula restaurant in the Ironbound section of the city. Dozens of patrons got sick and a few were even hospitalized after attending parties there around Christmas. Health inspectors are in the process of testing food sources and employees. Some […]
One is the view from my kitchen window: The other is for the email I received from the family of E. coli victim, Linda Rivera: 1-6-2009 @ 9:35pm Linda’s condition is amazingly improved. Though still seriously disabled, she actually has a reasonable prospect of a decent rehabilitation and restoration of most normal day-to-day functions. Today, […]
I should have waited until 6:00 AM to post what I did below at 2:00 AM. In any event, the CDC confirmed that it is collaborating with public health officials in several states and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to investigate a multistate outbreak of human infections due […]
Where are the Sick People? According to the CDC (well, actually the Washington Post last week), we know that 21 persons were infected with E. coli O157:H7 in 16 states caused by National Steak and Poultry "mechanically tenderized" steaks. Also, according to the CDC (well, actually efoodalert), the ill persons reside in California (1), Colorado […]
According to Alan Liddle of Nation’s Restaurant News “at least five restaurant chains are now included in a list of those affected by the late December recall of 124 tons of beef including,” Olive Garden, Applebees, Moe’s Southwest Grill, Carino’s Italian and 54th Street Grill & Bar. "The Owasso, Oklahoma-based National Steak and Poultry said […]
As of Monday, January 4, 2010, 21 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 had been reported from 16 states. The number of ill persons who were identified resides in each state as follows: California (1), Colorado (1), Florida (1), Hawaii (1), Iowa (1), Indiana (1), Kansas (1), Michigan (1), Minnesota (3), […]
Frankly, I am not quite sure Congress even knows. As you might recall from last year the House passed, H.R. 2749: Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. Then the Senate HELP Committee passed, S. 510: FDA Food Safety Modernization Act. When it will get to the floor for a vote, then to a Conference Committee […]
I was having a leisurely New Years Day when food safety, like is seems to do every day, again becomes the focus:
Along with most of the country, I was introduced to E. coli O157:H7 suddenly in 1993, when hundreds of people became ill and four children died after eating Jack in the Box hamburgers. However, the then little-known strain of bacteria was first recognized as a new food-related threat more than a decade earlier, in 1982, […]
I must be in a good mood today. In my last post I give Kudos to Cargill and now I am saying something nice about my friends at USDA/FSIS. Perhaps it is the afterglow of the holidays. Or, perhaps Cargill and FSIS have been reading my blog. The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has […]