The Honorable Bill Cassidy, M.D., ChairmanThe Honorable Bernie Sanders, Ranking MemberCommittee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsUnited States Senate428 Senate Dirksen Office BuildingWashington, DC 20510 Re: Finish what the Senate started — botulism in infant formula, the shared milk and powdered-milk supply behind two outbreaks, and the case for hearings and parent testimony Dear Chairman Cassidy, […]
KCCI reported late yesterday that the Jasper County Health Department said Friday that a 14-year-old Iowa girl died after testing positive for E. coli. A spokesperson for Blank Children’s Hospital said Kayla Boner died Friday morning. She was admitted to the hospital Tuesday morning. Hospital officials said they’ve treated three patients with E. coli in […]
For some reason I could not sleep and woke-up quite early this morning to this in my in box – Cargill Meat Solutions Recalls Ground Beef Action due to possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination. I then saw the following press release from Cargill Meat Solutions [YOU MUST WONDER WHY THEY SEND OUT THE PRESS RELEASE […]
To have as my 1000th blog post another story about another recall that is not really a recall is far less amusing than it used to be. Dana Rebik reported that Recalled Pizza are Still On Store Shelves in Memphis Tennessee. About 5 million Totino’s and Jeno’s frozen pizzas with pepperoni are being recalled. The […]
It’s still unclear whether man died from tainted food A Northwestern Michigan College student who was hospitalized after eating tainted pot pies recently died at his campus apartment. Medical personnel at a Grand Rapids hospital are conducting tests on the body of David Small, 51, after a friend and a college official found him dead […]
Between taking E. coli-related phone calls and emails from people who consumed Totino’s and Jeno’s Pizzas, I had some time to read an article on possible treatment for HUS. Abstract below: Postdiarrheal Shiga toxin-mediated hemolytic uremic syndrome similar to septic shock. Valles PG, Pesle S, Piovano L, Davila E, Peralta M, Principi I, Lo Giudice […]
General Mills is the “sixth largest food company in the world” with revenues for 2007 estimated to be nearly $12,500,000,000. General Mills announced today that since July 1 of this year, it had distributed more than 120 million Totino’s and Jeno’s pizzas nationwide. Surprisingly, in light of 21-reported E. coli illnesses tied to these products, […]
According to the General Mills website, it is the “sixth largest food company in the world." It is also a Fortune 500 company with headquarters in Minnesota, with revenues for 2007 estimated to be nearly $12,500,000,000. On today’s news of poisoned pizzas, General Mills shares were down $1.08, or 1.87 percent, at $56.65 on the […]
General Mills Operations, a Wellston, Ohio, establishment, is voluntarily recalling an undetermined amount of frozen meat pizza products because they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7 and may be linked to an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today. The following products are […]
Leaving ConAgra no room to deny the obvious, according to the CDC, at least 272 isolates of Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- with an indistinguishable genetic fingerprint have been collected from ill persons in 35 states. To date, three of these patients’ pot pies have yielded Salmonella I4,[5],12:i:- isolates with a genetic fingerprint indistinguishable from the outbreak […]
Beef recalls raise concerns about food safety Jeffrey Gold, AP Business Writer (a.k.a. “E. coli Guy”) interviewed the husband and father of two of my clients in the Topps E. coli case: ‘Food is being pushed out at such a rapid pace to keep up with demand, the product is not as safe as it […]
Jeff Gold, AP Business Writer in New Jersey, has continued to dig into the complete failure of the “voluntary recall” system to get this E. coli – contaminated Topps hamburger off store shelves. I posted nearly a week ago when reports first surfaced that the product was still being sold a month after Topps issued […]
Recalled Pot Pie product: * Banquet * Albertson’s (sold at Albertson’s) * Food Lion (sold at Food Lion) * Great Value (sold at Wal-Mart) * Hill Country Fare (sold at HEB) * Kirkwood (sold at Aldi) * Kroger (sold at Kroger) * Meijer (sold at Meijer) * Western Family (now discontinued; previously sold at a […]
The numbers keep rising from the CDC. Between January 1, 2007 and October 29, 2007, at least 272 isolates of Salmonella I 4,[5],12:i:- with an indistinguishable genetic fingerprint have been collected from ill persons in 35 states. Ill persons whose Salmonella strain has this genetic fingerprint have been reported from Arizona (1 person), Arkansas (4), […]
Bill Marler, guest barfblogger: Suing the church over E. coli O157:H7? When Nebraska Beef first raised the issue that it intended to sue the Salem Lutheran Church for “mishandling” its E. coli O157:H7 contaminated meat – I laughed. I then calmly tried to respond that the Meat Industry, that makes a profit off of selling […]
I had a nice chat with Neil Waugh of the Edmonton Sun yesterday about the twisted trail of E. coli from Canada. I am hurt (not really) that he called me a “legal vulture.” Fallout from ‘dirty’ Alberta beef plant felt on both sides of the border According to Mr. Waugh: Ranchers Beef Ltd. of […]