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 […]
Always looking for another way to drive our food safety message, I am now trying twitter.com. We shall see Mr. Bill.
You might recall a blog post I did from January of 2008 where I discussed testing retail ground beef for Non-O157:H7 Pathogenic Shiga Toxin Producing E. coli (STEC). We have completed a portion of the first year’s tests and are in the process of compiling the data. We hope to publish the results in the […]
According to a press release circulated today, much of the media speculation on who the next Secretary of Agriculture will be focuses on candidates lacking experience with food safety, nutrition, or environmental issues—issues which are at the heart of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s mission. Consumer advocates and other public interest groups are today urging […]
Days after Europe was well on the way recalling all the little piggies who went to market, today Rupari Food Services, a Deerfield Beach, Fl., establishment, is recalling approximately 41,020 pounds of fresh pork products that may be contaminated with dioxins, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today. FSIS was […]
From a speech I gave yesterday to the Washington State Bar Association: A few months ago I was invited by the Chinese Government to speak at a food safety conference in Beijing. A week before I arrived, I was asked not to talk about the now erupting infant formula scandal. I did not oblige. Later […]
Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation today released the sixth annual Ready or Not? Protecting the Public’s Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorism Report, which finds that progress made to better protect the country from disease outbreaks, natural disasters, and bioterrorism is now at risk, due to budget cuts and the […]
I know economic times are tough, but human illnesses associated with dog and cat food? No, really, it is unlikely, but possible, that people consumed it out of necessity. However, it is more likely that ii is cross-contamination during the feeding of your pet. So, the next time your kid refuses to feed the dog, […]
In another great example how interconnected a “farm to fork” food chain can be, a friend of mine sent me this article from AP Ireland, “Oil-tainted feed causes Irish pork crisis.” The beginning of this food crisis (as opposed to all the others that we read about daily) according to Irish Agriculture Department is that […]
This Wednesday I’ll be speaking at the Washington State Bar Association CLE seminar titled Top Lawyers: Learn From Some of Washington’s Best. The smart folks at WSBA realized that law students and young lawyers learn a lot about the law, but rarely hear about career building; building a practice and a life in the law […]
In the recent volume of AAP News is an article entitled, “advis[ing] families against giving children unpasteurized [raw] milk.” The article could not be clearer in its warning: Raw or unpasteurized milk can transmit many serious infectious diseases to children. Furthermore, there are no documented health benefits associated with ingestion of unpasteurized milk or milk […]
China said Monday that a total of 294,000 children had fallen ill from consuming dairy products tainted with the industrial chemical melamine, with 154 of them still in serious condition. In a statement on its website, the health ministry also indicated the number of dead may rise from the four previously announced, saying that six […]
I just finished my presentation here at the ACI Conference giving an overview of the increase in 2007 and 2008 in recalls and outbreaks associated with hamburger and E. coli O157:H7 when I got an email of an article from Clinical Infectious Diseases from its November 15, 2008 publication on the 2006 Carrot Juice Botulism […]
Well, for two years running I did not make the ABA Journal Top 100 Blawgs (Law Blogs). I can not imagine why with hundreds of subscribers, over 2,000 visitors a day, that I did not make it into the top 100. Here is the link to the ABA site —- BLAWGS. Take a look at […]
As part of its investigation into a rare infection that can be associated with infant formula, the New Mexico Department of Health is advising people on the safest way to prepare formula. The Department of Health is investigating two cases of Enterobacter sakazakii illness, a rare cause of bloodstream and central nervous system infections, in […]
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) identified a total of 5,778 outbreaks of illness linked to specific foods, involving 168,898 individual illnesses that occurred between 1990 and 2006. An outbreak involves two or more ill people. The food categories most commonly linked to outbreaks were: • Seafood: 1,140 outbreaks involving 11,809 cases […]