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 […]
Epidemiologic and traceback evidence showed that red onions from Thomson International Inc. were the likely source of this outbreak. Other onion types (such as white, yellow, or sweet yellow) were also likely to be contaminated because the onions were grown and harvested together. In Canada there were 515 confirmed cases of Salmonella Newport illness linked […]
A total of 101 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Enteritidis were reported from 17 states. Illnesses started on dates ranging from June 29, 2020, to August 27, 2020. Ill people ranged in age from 1 to 92 years, with a median age of 43. Sixty-four percent of ill people were female. Of […]
Former Blue Bell Creameries President Charged In Connection With 2015 Ice Cream Listeria Contamination A Texas grand jury charged the former president of ice cream manufacturer Blue Bell Creameries L.P. with wire fraud and conspiracy in connection with an alleged scheme to cover up the company’s sales of Listeria-tainted ice cream in 2015, the Justice Department […]
Registration is now open for the Virtual Food Safety Summit 2020 South Africa, scheduled for 3rd November 2020. This event is a joint venture hosted by Food Focus and Anelich Consulting. It will be hosted by professor Lucia Anelich, director of Anelich Consulting, and Linda Jackson, director of Food Focus. With 2020’s widespread global disruption […]
Over the years, I have had a disagreement or two with the CDC, but I never, ever thought for a moment that the premier public health agency in the world was anything less than that. Everyone interested in any aspect of public health, and specifically the COVID-19 pandemic should read the letter below. From the […]
Peaches sicken at least 126 in the US and Canada – Onions sicken at least 1,527 in the US and Canada Wawona Packing Peaches: The FDA and CDC reported that as of August 27, 2020, a total of 78 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Enteritidis have been reported from 12 states. Illnesses […]
Some would say, why it took so long? Canada Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is now requiring testing of romaine lettuce from the Salinas Valley, but not from Yuma. Romaine lettuce imported from the United States has been associated with several outbreaks of foodborne E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in Canada and the USA. Food safety investigations and […]
As of September 24, 2020, a total of 41 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Stanley have been reported from 10 states – Arizona, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York City, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Illnesses started on dates ranging from January 21, 2020, to August 26, 2020. Ill people range in […]
From FDA Press Release from yesterday: Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a proposed rule to establish additional traceability recordkeeping requirements for certain foods. The FDA also published a draft “Food Traceability List,” which describes the foods that would be subject to the proposed requirements. The list includes leafy greens, fresh cut fruits […]
Marler Clark, Bainbridge Island, lowered our flag out of respect for Justice Ginsberg. From the Justice: My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent. I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she […]
A federal court in Texas sentenced ice cream manufacturer Blue Bell Creameries L.P. to pay $17.25 million in criminal penalties for shipments of contaminated products linked to a 2015 listeriosis outbreak, the Justice Department announced today. Blue Bell pleaded guilty in May 2020 to two misdemeanor counts of distributing adulterated ice cream products. The sentence, […]
“Fight like you live here” was always the tag at the end of any of Tony’s frequent email missiles. It it is was a great empty feeling of loss that I learned about his death today. My thoughts to his family and friends. From Food and Water Watch’s website: Tony Corbo is the senior lobbyist […]
Introduction. On June 28, 2016, the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) received five reports of Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia Coli (STEC)1 through routine surveillance. By June 29, routine interviews conducted by the CDPH Communicable Disease (CD) Program revealed that three of the five cases reported consuming food items from Carbon (Restaurant A) within 2-3 days […]
Given that there is a Salmonella outbreak and recall of peaches and people sick and hospitalized from eating said peaches – timing of the below tweet does not seem optimal? Outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis Infections Linked to Peaches | CDC cdc.gov/salmonella/ent… via @CDCgov – Damn Twitter!
Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm, is in the process of updating several of its About-sites for content and clarity, in hopes of educating the public about foodborne illnesses, such as Botulism, Campylobacter, Cyclospora, E. coli, Hepatitis A, Listeria, Norovirus, Salmonella, Shigella and their complications. The update involves adding tables and images in an […]