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 […]
There are a lot of things I love about my job, but one is the science behind linking people in dozens of states to food that they consumed that poisoned them. Once that link is scientifically determined, and the outbreak stopped, then the time comes to learn from the mistakes so the next outbreak can […]
OK, I admit, Lou Dobbs (and all the cable yammering heads) drive me nuts. Mainly because they prey on peoples’ fears (left and right) and they are smart and sane enough (O.K., exclude Beck and Hannity) to know better. Lou is particularly bothersome with his constant complaints of illegal immigrants and the plagues (he yells loudly […]
Another lawsuit on behalf of a customer sickened in the Milan McDonald’s outbreak was filed today in the Circuit Court of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit of Rock Island County. The lawsuit was filed against McDonald’s Inc., and Kevin Murphy, the owner of the McDonald’s restaurant at 400 West First Street in Milan, IL, by Marler […]
In cooperation with Beef Packers, Inc.’s (Cargill’s) recall of 825,769 pounds of ground beef linked to an outbreak of salmonellosis, Pleseanton, California Safeway, Inc. is recalling fresh ground beef products sold between June 6 through July 14, 2009, at stores in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, South Dakota and Wyoming. While the […]
CDC Published this Morning: CDC is collaborating with public health officials in many states, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the United States Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to investigate an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections. As of Friday, July 31, 2009, 80 persons infected with a […]
When we hear that there has been a recall of hamburger tainted with Salmonella Newport, how many of us would know which company slaughtered the cow and ground the meat? Would we know that the meat came from Beef Packers Inc. (a.k.a. Cargill), or would we only know the store we bought the meat from? […]
Personally, as I said to the Los Angeles Times a few days ago, “I think that anything that can poison or kill a person should be listed as an adulterant” [in food]. According to the CDC, E. coli O157:H7 is the source of an estimated 73,000 illnesses, 2,000 hospitalizations, and 60 deaths in the United […]
California, Colorado and Wyoming health officials said this afternoon that at least 27 people have reported illnesses tied to recalled ground beef tainted with antibiotic resistant Salmonella Newport. On Thursday, Fresno-based Beef Packers Inc. (Cargill) recalled 825,769 pounds of ground beef produced June 5-23. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service says […]
As of July 1, 2009, the CDC reported twenty-three persons infected with a strain of E. coli O157:H7 with a particular "DNA fingerprint" have been reported from 9 states – Wisconsin included. Of these, 17 (likely more now) have been confirmed by an advanced DNA test (MLVA) as having the outbreak strain. All have been […]
Colorado State health officials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and several other state health departments have been investigating an outbreak of infections that are resistant to several commonly used antibiotics. To date, cases of illness have been identified in 11 states. The majority of cases, 21 illnesses, have been reported in Colorado in the following […]
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food and Safety Inspection Service is investigating 40 illnesses in nine states – including five people in the California counties of Orange and Tulare – who have been sickened. At least four people have been hospitalized. The state public health department released a list […]
So, the dairy industry pumps the cows full of antibiotics and then when done with them sends them to slaughter to be fed to us. Use of antibiotic susceptibility patterns and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to compare historic and contemporary isolates of multi-drug-resistant Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Newport, Appl Environ Microbiol. 2004 Jan;70(1):318-23, Berge AC, […]
I am showing my age that I remember the famous TV ad from the 1980’s – "Where is the Beef?" So, Cargill, where is the million pounds of Salmonella Newport? We know it is in 11 States – which ones? We know that Safeway and King Soopers is doing a recall – what others? It […]
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment today announced that Beef Packers, Inc., a Fresno, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 826,000 pounds of ground beef products that may be linked to an outbreak of illness from Salmonella Newport. State health officials, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and several other state health departments have been […]
I had a nice chat this morning with Jerry Hirsch from the LA Times on the resent recall of some 800,000 pounds of hamburger. As I said to Jerry: Regulators probably jumped on the beef case out of concern for antibiotic resistant strains of salmonella, said William Marler, a Seattle attorney and food safety expert […]