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 […]
SEATTLE, Wa —– Public health officials in Washington DC, California and Wisconsin are playing a dangerous game with American consumers by refusing to reveal the specific stores or restaurants that may have served meat contaminated by toxic E. coli, says the Seattle lawyer who represents victims of food-borne illness. ‘The public needs to know who […]
Event will feature Chef Joseba Jiménez de Jiménez of The Harvest Vine and Txori Too many cooks in the kitchen will be a good thing on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2008, as more than a dozen of Seattle’s best and brightest chefs unite for the 16th annual Chefs’ Dinner to benefit Seattle’s Bailey-Boushay House, a skilled […]
Lightning strikes again and again. I was able to find that on two occasions in 1996 and 2000, Rochester Meats recalled 152,000 and 30,000 pounds of E. coli-contaminated ground beef. Details from the FSIS website are here – note the amount of the recall and the amount actually recovered: Case Number: 017-96 Recall Notification Report: […]
On Wednesday, January 16, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 4202 of the California State Capitol Building there will be a hearing on already passed AB 1735. The bill changed the California’s Food and Agricultural Code to limit to 10 the amount of coliform bacteria per milliliter raw-milk. I will see you there. I did post […]
FSIS announced tonight the first E. coli O157:H7 recall of 2008. In 2007 there were at least 21 recalls, totaling over 33,00,000 pounds of meat. Now Rochester Meat Company, a Rochester, Minnesota firm, is voluntarily recalling approximately 188,000 pounds of ground beef products because the meat resulted in five illnesses in Wisconsin and one illness […]
Three elderly men have died and at least one pregnant woman has miscarried since last June after drinking listeria-contaminated pasteurized milk from Whittier Farms in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. At least two others have been sickened as well. According to the Massachusetts Department of Health, tests have found no problems with the pasteurization process at the Whittier […]
It has been a busy week juggling poisoned spinach, peanut butter, pot pies and a rash of contaminated hamburger and milk – and dealing with emails from raw milk advocates, but I am still surprised that no one from Texas every took me up on my $10,000 offer for the return of the missing meat. […]
The one thing I really like about litigation is how information surfaces in the oddest places and the strangest times (thanks to super lawyer, Ron Simon). Take the Peter Pan and Great Value Peanut Butter Salmonella Tennessee cases. The CDC has updated its total of stool culture positive cases to 714 that includes three differing […]
I love a late night food quiz when I’m on the road and can not sleep. Thanks to the folks at the Cleaner Plate Club Blog. It was sad that I was able to answer most of the questions correctly. Click on the photo below from the Cleaner Plate Blog to try it yourself: I […]
Stephen Smith of the Boston Globe reported on the tragedy of yet another death tied to milk consumption. This death increases the number of deaths to three elderly men and the death of an unborn child. Also, according to the Globe the outbreak numbers have increased to five: State disease investigators also reported today that […]
I am in Reno (no, I’m not gambling) attending a food safety conference sponsored by the Institute of Food Technologists and the Food Safety Research and Response Network. My talk in the morning is “Minimizing Your Liability Risk and Foodborne Illness Lawsuits.” The PowerPoint is below. Also, for some additional information about how we approach […]
Billings Channel KULR has reported that people in Yellowstone County are infected with Salmonella. KULR also reports that it is the same strain of Salmonella that is making people sick in states as far away as Texas and Pennsylvania. Now, the Yellowstone County Health Department is trying to figure out how they are connected. In […]
I have been following this tragic tale since right after Christmas in a series of three posts (1, 2, 3). I was somewhat surprised when Linda Bock of the Worcester Telegram wrote in yesterdays paper that Whittier Farms “voluntarily” stopped production of milk after it had learned that two men over 70 had died, one […]
Well, I tried to take a night off, but the meat industry will simply not let me. I had dinner tonight with, somewhat retired writer and Pulitzer Prize winner, Ross Anderson, and his lovely, and far more accomplished wife, Mary Rothschild. Over a great meal we talked about the Iowa caucuses and what the future […]
I posted a few days ago that Claravale Farm of Paicines and Organic Pastures of Fresno have sued the State of California for setting standards for the quality of raw milk. Here is the Complaint. I was curious what the “beef” was really all about. According to the State of California, “the new standard sets […]