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 […]
The contaminated pepper was packaged under the “Lian How” and “Uncle Chen” labels and sold to restaurant suppliers and markets – much of it going to Chinese and Vietnamese establishments. Since December, 42 rare Salmonella Rissen infections have been reported in Oregon, California, Washington and Nevada. Public health officials in those states pooled their resources […]
Elissar Khalek – Food and Water Watch The dilemma of how to regulate food safety in a way that prevents problems caused by industrialized agriculture but doesn’t wipe out small diversified farms is not new and is not easily solved. And as almost constant food safety problems reveals the dirty truth about the way much […]
I had not checked the list of recalled peanut butter containing products for a few day and now it is 3868 different products manufactured by over 200 different companies. All caused by one company that produced about 2.5% of peanut butter products in the USA. The CDC has not updated its site and still has […]
Nonny Mouse wrote "Monsanto and HR 875, Take Two" To set the record straight: There is no language in HR 875 that would regulate, penalize, or shut down backyard gardens or ‘criminalize’ gardeners; the bill focuses on ensuring the safety of food in interstate commerce. Farmer’s markets would not be regulated, fined, or shut down, […]
California public health officials are warning people not to eat a dozen spices packaged at a Union City plant under the Lian How brand name. A salmonella outbreak that has sickened 33 people in California and nine people in three other states caused the Union International Food Company to voluntarily recall of its pepper, paprika, […]
There has been a lot of hysteria floating around about HR 875, a bill being put through in congress to further regulate food safety. I have been hearing so much about this all month, and decided not to make up my mind until I had a chance to read all the information. A friend on […]
The blogosphere has sounded the alarm warning that Congress and agribusiness and biotechnology lobbyists are conspiring to pass legislation that will force organic and local farms, and even home gardeners, out of business. What are the threats and opportunities, and how should we gear up to communicate with our congressional representatives? There is no question […]
A good friend sent me Barry Estabrook’s article from Gourmet Magazine “Politics of the Plate: The Price of Tomatoes – If you have eaten a tomato this winter, chances are very good that it was picked by a person who lives in virtual slavery.” I am not sure anyone can read the article and not […]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting this morning that many food companies are not complying with federal recordkeeping requirements. The requirements, encoded in a 2002 bioterrorism law, are intended to provide the basis for "traceback" upon the discovery of contaminated foods. In other words, the records are designed to enable public health and safety officials […]
With a current population of 1,319,175,333, according to the China Ministry of Health, there were 431 food poisoning incidents reported in China last year, causing 13,095 illnesses, and 154 deaths. The United States current population is 306,090,800. Our version or the Ministry of Health, the CDC, reports approximately 76,000,000 illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths […]
Health officials now say more than 100 people reported getting sick after eating at an Applebee’s restaurant in suburban Syracuse. The Onondaga County Health Department says it has confirmed seven cases of Shigellosis among people who ate at the Applebee’s in Camillus in early March. Shigellosis is a bacterial infection associated with consuming water or […]
For the last two years I have had the honor of speaking in China on food safety and civil litigation – the ability for all consumers to stand up to corporations who poison them and their children. I will be back again this year in September. Now a Chinese court has officially accepted the first […]
Got your attention? Food poisoning causes more problems that you thought. The CDC actually reported this today in MMWR: Cluster of Ciguatera Fish Poisoning — North Carolina, 2007 Ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) is a distinctive type of foodborne disease that results from eating predatory ocean fish contaminated with ciguatoxins. As many as 50,000 cases are […]
The Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation have released a report which examines problems with the current system and proposes ways to improve the food safety functions at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to better protect the nation’s food supply. Document Title: Keeping America’s Food Safe: A Blueprint […]
The FDA announced today that the Georgia Nut Company is recalling certain bulk wholesale and retail products containing shelled pistachio nuts that have the potential to be contaminated with the Salmonella organism. The Company said it identified the potential as a result of a rigorous sampling and testing regimen it conducted with respect to shelled […]