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 […]
It is long past time for meaningful changes in the safety of the food our children eat. Whether the food is raw, local, organic, small farm, big farm, mass-produced or slow, if it contains E. coli O157:H7, or another pathogen, it can kill. It can kill your child, grandchild or the child of a friend. […]
Next week many consumers (several past and present clients) will be walking the hallowed halls of the Senate meeting with Senators and staff. The goal is to make food safety real to those that have the opportunity to in part increase FDA funding, increase inspections of plants that manufacture our food (including foreign companies) and […]
Lawsuit Seeks to Cover Millions In Medical Expenses Victims of an August, 2008 outbreak of E. coli O111 have joined together to file suit against the Country Cottage restaurant, where they were sickened. The lawsuit was filed today in the District Court in the State of Oklahoma, in and for the County of Mayes, on […]
Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a spore-forming, gram-positive anaerobic bacillus that produces two toxins: toxin A and toxin B. These toxins typically cause gastrointestinal disease, often with severe complications. In rare cases, C. difficile-associated disease can be fatal. Although C. difficile bacteria can be present in human intestinal tracts and cause no clinical symptoms (a […]
Parke Wilde keeps the U.S. Food Policy blog. He teaches graduate level courses in food policy and statistics at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. In this list, he looked beyond the excellent sites that already appeared in a recent list at Culinate, which included Ethicurean, Green Fork, ChewsWise, Food […]
Over at E. sakazakii blog there is a discussion of the naming and renaming of this very nasty bug. Whatever the name it is a rare, but life-threatening cause of neonatal meningitis, sepsis, and necrotizing enterocolitis. In general, E. or C. sakazaii kills 40-80% of infected newborns diagnosed with this type of severe infection. E. […]
On September 25, 2009, I posted Part 1 of a 4-part series that examines the food safety record of both pasteurized and raw dairy products. Below is Part 2, which provides background on the occurrence of foodborne pathogens in milk products, and mechanisms of contamination. Occurrence of Foodborne Pathogens in Milk and the Dairy Environment […]
Tennessee Lawyer John Day is a reader of Food Safety News. Food Safety News is a new publication sponsored by food safety expert Bill Marler and his firm Marler Clark. It contains information on the food safety issues of the day, whether they pertain to foodborne illness outbreaks, recalled products, or food politics. The online […]
Blogs With Bite, by Mike Licht – Blogs with Bite is an occasional omnivorous sampling of food blogs and sites we find particularly tasty. Follow the trail of bread crumbs back to earlier editions, starting here: Food Safety News — Comprehensive “daily Web-based newspaper … reporting on issues surrounding food safety.” Presented by Marler Clark […]
It has been another week with too much news in food safety. Here are six that you should not have missed. Food Safety Education Month Winds Down Shootout in Tulsa – OK vs Big Chicken Q&A: Nestle on Food Safety Politics Outbreak Victims to Sue OK Restaurant Updated: Produce E. coli Outbreak in 3 States […]
Mr. Cox of the Farm-to-Legal Defense Fund (FTCLDF) informed me (through several emails that he says are just from him, not on behalf of FTCLDF – although he is General Counsel for FTCLDF) that I was mistaken and I agree with him. I assumed that the farmer in a 2008 raw goat milk E. coli O157:H7 […]
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Eric first called out Marion Nestle’s famous site – Food Politics. He then gave Food Safety News the following tip o’ the pen: The second site – Foodsafetynews.com – is a new effort by lawyer and food safety expert, Bill Marler. At first glance, it would be easy to dismiss Marler because he specializes in […]
Botulism is a rare, life-threatening paralytic illness caused by neurotoxins produced by an anaerobic, gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium, Clostridium botulinum. Unlike Clostridium perfringens, which requires the ingestion of large numbers of viable cells to cause symptoms, the symptoms of botulism are caused by the ingestion of highly toxic, soluble exotoxins produced by C. botulinum while growing […]