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 […]
Adenoviruses is one of the possible causes being investigated. According to the Jerusalem Post, 12 cases of hepatitis (liver inflammation) from an unexplained source have been reported in children at Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Schneider Children’s Medical Center for Israel, the Health Ministry announced on Tuesday night. Earlier this year, Britain reported an outbreak […]
Fraich’UP frozen pizza and E. coli: French prosecutors this week searched a Buitoni Fraich’UP frozen pizza factory in northern France, the suspected source of an E. coli outbreak that has left dozens of children sick, as well as the headquarters of its owner Nestle France. Buitoni is owned by the Swiss food conglomerate Nestle, An […]
I could not have said it better. Here is the full post from the amazing and insightful Phylliis Entis who posts the best at eFoodAlert. Between September 1, 2019 and September 20, 2021, Abbott Nutrition received seventeen consumer complaints regarding multiple Similac powdered formula products. Fifteen of the complaints related to infants testing positive for […]
A few days ago Politico posted “The FDA’s Food Failure,” Clearly,. the FDA has much work to do. However, the last years have brought a level of transparency to the FDA that it had not shown in the past – at least as it relates to the fact and the status of outbreak investigations. On it […]
I have a lot of food safety friends – some who will and will not admit it publicly. Here is one of the best emails I received recently after Politico posted “The FDA’s Food Failure,” a 36-page investigation (Pulitzer Prize eligible) by Helena Bottemiller Evich that details the fact that food safety is not a high […]
First published in Insider. Bill Marler is an attorney who specializes in food borne illness cases. Most of the cases he’s worked on have involved either undercooked or prepackaged foods. He’s learned to always order food cooked well done and to avoid salads to reduce his risk of food poisoning. When it comes to eating […]
In 2014 Stewart Parnell was found guilty of 72 counts of conspiracy and fraud, and sentenced to 28 years in federal prison. Michael Parnell, a food broker, was found guilty of conspiracy and sentenced to 20 years. The brothers are currently in federal prison after their 2014 trial where they were found guilty of deliberately sending […]
Rafael Bernal had a interesting story this morning on Sodexo’s apparent mismanagement of the cafeterias in the House of Representatives complex – see, cafeteria workers denounce working conditions. Perhaps not the risk to our democracy as January 6th, it might well give our representatives a “taste” of how important food safety really is. Here is […]
Helena Bottemiller Evich’s well done piece in Politico “The FDA’s Food Failure,” that hit the internet very early this morning, is a stunning, but not surprising, indictment of our government’s food safety failures that transcends political parties and administrations. Note, for someone who has been directly involved in food safety for the last almost 30 […]
Canada reports: As of April 8, 2022, there have been 328 cases of norovirus and gastrointestinal illness linked to consumption of British Columbia oysters reported in the following provinces: British Columbia (293), Alberta (3), Saskatchewan (1), Manitoba (15) and Ontario (16). Individuals became sick between mid-January and early April 2022, and no deaths have been […]
Well, first, don’t eat British Columbia, Canada oysters for a bit. What is the Norovirus? Nature has created an ingenious bug in norovirus. The round blue ball structure of norovirus is actually a protein surrounding the virus’s genetic material. The virus attaches to the outside of cells lining the intestine, and then transfers its genetic […]
Food Safety Talk 259: No Bill, You Pay Us April 4, 2022 The guys are joined by friend of the show and food safety lawyer Bill Marler, for his second time on the show (but first in 8 years). The group talks about food safety advocacy, how the civil legal system supports change within the […]
The investigation relates to the offenses of “cheating on goods, display or sale of corrupt or falsified food products harmful to health, placing on the market of a product harmful to health, endangering others, injuries involuntary and involuntary homicides”. According to Paris Beacon News: The discovery of the Escherichia coli bacteria in Buitoni frozen pizzas […]
Multiple recalls of British Columbia oysters since mid-March. Illness in Canada began mid-January. Illnesses in both Seattle and Minnesota began in mid-March. 279 with Norovirus in Canada, 29 with Norovirus in Minnesota and 27 with Norovirus in Seattle. Minnesota health officials announced that they are working with “federal officials and public health agencies in other states […]
“If you have a Fraîch’Up pizza in your freezer, do not eat it and throw it away” The French Directorate General of Health indicated on Wednesday that the link was confirmed between the resurgence of contamination with E. coli bacteria and Nestlé Buitoni’s “Fraîch’up” frozen pizzas, likely the dough. To date in France, 41 children […]