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 spent time yesterday visiting with a feisty “50 something” woman and her adoring husband (they have six kids) in a Nevada hospital as she spent her 50th day hospitalized with severe complication of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome from an E. coli O157:H7 infection linked directly to Nestlé Cookie Dough. For a woman who has lost […]
I know I sound a bit like a broken record asking yet another company to step up and admit they have a problem, pay the victims’ medical bills and lost wages, and then focus on how the problem happened and how to prevent it from ever happening again. True, it will not completely prevent then […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned consumers not to eat two brands of pistachios repacked by Orca Distribution West Inc. of Anaheim, California. The brands are: * California Prime Produce * Orange County Orchards The pistachios may be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young […]
Alfalfa sprouts products sold in Southern California Gelson’s and Whole Foods Market grocery stores were recalled today by the California Department of Public Health because of possible salmonella contamination. Mark Horton, director of the CDPH, warned consumers not to eat certain Kowalke Organics’ alfalfa products with sell-by dates between June 18 and June 30. Those […]
Recall Release CLASS I RECALL FSIS-RC-034-2009 HEALTH RISK: HIGH JBS Swift Beef Company, a Greeley, Colo., establishment is recalling approximately 41,280 pounds of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products subject to recall include: * Boxes of […]
Lindsay Phillips, age 18, consumed Nestle cookie dough on several occasions in early May 2009. On May 11, 2009, Lindsay began to suffer from severe lower abdominal pain accompanied by profuse diarrhea that turned bloody. After Lindsay’s symptoms failed to subside, on May 13, 2009 her mother took her to the emergency room (“ER”). Initially […]
Just Posted on Civil Eats Just when America thought it was safe to go back into the grocery store, another food outbreak wakes us up to the fact that there is something seriously wrong with our food safety system. This time it’s Nestle Toll House cookie dough with E. coli, a treat that nearly every […]
Nestlé Toll House Cookie & Brownie Dough Product Description Consumer Unit Code (UPC) COOKIE & BROWNIE DOUGH BAR Chocolate Chip bar 16.5oz 0 50000 62231 3 Chocolate Chip bar 16.5oz 0 50000 11308 8 Chocolate Chunk bar 16.5oz 0 50000 62235 1 Walnut Chocolate Chip bar 16.5oz 0 50000 62233 7 Jumbo Chocolate Chip […]
Still in Atlanta at the National Environmental Health Association Conference on my way home (or not) in a few hours. In between doing a mock deposition of a Health Inspector, I had time to talk to California, Minnesota and Oregon press about the state of Food Poisonings – specifically E. coli: When food sickens, he […]
An E. coli lawsuit was filed today on behalf of a Denver-area child who became gravely ill with E. coli O157:H7 after eating refrigerated Nestle Toll House cookie dough. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of the family of Madison Sedbrook by her attorneys, William Marler of the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm Marler Clark […]
According to the CDC, 70 persons infected with a strain of E. coli O157:H7 with a particular DNA fingerprint (Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis – PFGE) have been reported from 30 states. Ill persons range in age from 2 to 65 years; however, 66% are less than 19 years old; 75% are female. Thirty persons have […]
Recall Release CLASS I RECALL FSIS-RC-033-2009 HEALTH RISK: HIGH International Meat Co., Inc., a Chicago, Ill., establishment is recalling approximately 6,152 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products subject to recall include: * "5-pound, […]
A young woman who was hospitalized for seven days after eating raw cookie dough made by Nestle USA filed suit today against the company in California Superior Court, San Mateo County. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of 18-year-old Jillian Collins by her attorneys, William Marler of the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm Marler Clark […]
Between speaking at the American College of Trial Lawyers in Minnesota on Friday, visiting on Saturday with a young dancer who now is confined to a wheelchair because of an E. coil O157:H7-tainted hamburger, and seeing an Ohio family today who lost their seven-year-old daughter to E. coli O157:H7, I am a bit tired and saddened, […]