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Food Poison Blog

Surveillance and analysis on food poison news and outbreaks.
By Marler Clark

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 12:57:03

FDA - Thanksgiving Food Safety Tips

Posted on November 24, 2009
Parties, family dinners, and other gatherings where food is served are all part of the holiday cheer. But the merriment can change to misery if food makes you or others ill. Typical symptoms of foodborne illness are vomiting, diarrhea, and flu-like symptoms, which can start anywhere from hours to days after contaminated food or drinks are consumed...

Effectiveness of liquid soap and hand sanitizer against Norwalk (Norovirus) virus on contaminated hands

Posted on November 22, 2009
Applied and Environmental Microbiology Pengbo Liu, Yvonne Yuen, Hui-Mien Hsiao, Lee-Ann Jaykus, and Christine Moe Disinfection is an essential measure for interrupting human norovirus (HuNoV) transmission, but it is difficult to evaluate the efficacy of disinfectants due to the absence of a practicable cell culture system for these viruses...

South Carolina Grand Strand residents cautioned about possibly tainted food

Posted on November 22, 2009
People who purchased a meal at a fund raiser in Conway Nov. 13 are urged to dispose of any leftover food from the fund raiser as an investigation has begun into a possible foodborne outbreak involving the event, the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control announced today...

Maine Victim of Fairbank Farms E. coli Outbreak Takes Legal Action

Posted on November 21, 2009
Outbreak Widens as Four Maine Residents May be Infected As news broke that more Maine residents may be infected with E. coli from Fairbank Farms ground beef, an Augusta woman severely sickened in the E. coli outbreak has filed suit against the company...

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Safeway -- the First Major Supermarket Chain to Offer iPura From Global Food Technologies

Posted on November 21, 2009
Global Food Technologies ("GFT"), a California-based life science company specializing in food safety, today announced the commencement of deliveries of its iPura brand tilapia to Safeway. iPura, the world's first food safety brand, will be in the service counter of Safeway supermarkets by the end of the month...

Unique Food Safety Conference Tomorrow - Dr. David Kessler, William Marler Highlight Day-Long Conference

Posted on November 20, 2009
November 20, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) and American University Washington College of Law will sponsor a day-long conference focusing on problems with the current food safety system in America, and how to improve it. The conference, Empowering Employees to Protect Food Integrity, starts at 9:30 a...

Bankruptcy Claims Against Peanut Corporation of America Total 154 in Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on November 19, 2009
AP reports today that the bankruptcy trustee says claims have been filed for 154 people who say they were sickened by a salmonella outbreak traced to a Virginia peanut company. Peanut Corp. of America filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy amid fallout from the outbreak, which left about 700 people sick and was linked to at least nine deaths...

E. coli O157:H7 Linked to Fairbury Steaks, Inc. - Ground Beef Recalled

Posted on November 17, 2009
Fairbury Steaks, Inc. a Fairbury, Neb., establishment, is recalling approximately 90 pounds of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today...

Second Lawsuit Filed Against Fairbank Farms in E. coli Outbreak

Posted on November 17, 2009
A Maine woman severely sickened in the recent E. coli outbreak tied to ground beef from Fairbank Farms has filed suit against the company. The lawsuit was filed in the Maine District Court by the plaintiff's attorneys, Bill Marler of foodborne illness law firm Marler Clark, and Peter Felmley of the Portland firm Drummond, Woodsum, & MacMahon...

Dairy Groups Urge Senators to Include Raw Milk Facilities in Food Safety Regulations

Posted on November 17, 2009
Other Requests: Harmonize Regulations and Avoid Duplicate Fees Although unpasteurized, or raw, milk products pose a significant food safety hazard, facilities producing these products are not covered by any of the food safety regulations proposed so far this year by Congress...

FDA Stops Cargill Canola Oil From Canada Due to Salmonella

Posted on November 16, 2009
The FDA refused 19 shipments of Canadian canola meal from Cargill in October after finding they contained the harmful bacteria salmonella, according to Reuters. According to the report: The shipments all come from Cargill's Clavet, Saskatchewan canola-crushing plant, according to reports posted on the FDA's website...

Ixtapa E. coli Lawsuit Filed in Washington

Posted on November 16, 2009
Two customers of a Lake Stevens restaurant who were sickened in an E. coli outbreak last year have filed lawsuits against the business. E. coli infected at least 23 customers at the Ixtapa Family Mexican Restaurant in October 2008, the Snohomish Health District said...

Florida Woman Petitions Whole Foods to Continue Selling Raw Milk

Posted on September 30, 2009
A Florida woman who runs an organization called Miami Real Food has petitioned Whole Foods, one of the nation's largest organic grocers, to continue selling raw milk. See the entire petition here. The petition states, in part, [R]aw milk from grass-fed cows is infinitely healthier than those that are kept in confinement dairies...

Bacteria in Leafy Greens - Following the Light?

Posted on September 30, 2009
New research conducted in Israel suggests that the method that some bacteria, including Sallmonella, are enetering leafy greens is connected to light exposure, as reported today on an L.A. Times blog. The new study was published in the journal "Applied and Environmental Microbiology...

Kroger and Nebraska Beef E. coli O157:H7 Case Settled

Posted on September 29, 2009
Bruce Cadwallader of the Columbus Dispatch wrote the following story: A former New Albany resident who sued the Kroger Co. for selling tainted beef has settled her lawsuit. Attorneys for Amanda J. Adam, 27, notified Franklin County Common Pleas Court officials on Sept...

Missouri Gov. Nixon (double) Speaks On E. coli, Lake of the Ozarks

Posted on September 29, 2009
I guess it's hardly news when a politician doesn't give straight answers, but this is double-speak, or non-speak, at its best. Check some excerpts from this Kansas City Star interview with Gov. Nixon on the Missouri Department of Natural Resources' (DNR) delay in releasing E...

Criminal Charges May Be Filed Against Raw Milk Sellers in Wisconsin

Posted on September 29, 2009
It is a crime to sell raw milk in the state of Wisconsin, and one farmer may be going jail for doing just that. According to an article in Walworth County Today, the Walworth County District Attorney's Office is evaluating whether to file charges against the owners of an Elkhorn farm shut down after more than two dozen people fell ill with Campylobacter infections after consuming the farm's raw milk...

UK Study: Rise in Clostridium Difficile Illnesses Attributable to . . . Evolution

Posted on September 28, 2009
Clostridium difficile, colloquially known as "C Diff," is an increasing public health risk, particularly in hospital settings, but also as a foodborne pathogen. Researchers from the United Kingdom, who compared historical strains of C Diff to the strain involved in a large outbreak at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in 2003, say that one of the reasons is that the bug is evolving, and becoming more dangerous...

Story of Listeria Survivors Highlights Food Safety Issues

Posted on September 28, 2009
A well written piece in the Washington Post today by Jennifer LaRue Huget details the story of two twins, Luke and Chloe Bennett, who survived a listeria infection at birth. Listeria is the common name for the pathogenic or disease-causing bacterium known as Listeria monocytogenes...

Here Kitty Kitty, I Need My Morning Coffee

Posted on September 28, 2009
You may be wondering what in the world cats and coffee have in common, and until this morning my answer would probably have been some witty quip (or a lame one, depending on your sense of humor). But it turns out that some cats, the Asian Palm Civet to be precise, can actually enhance the flavor of your morning cup o' joe...

Hot Interviews at Food Safety News - Dr. Nestle and Dr. Raymond

Posted on September 27, 2009
The Washington DC Bureau and Denver Bureau caught up with two more Food Safety Leaders in the last week for some Q & A. More interviews are coming over the next several weeks as we take the temperature from people who know. Nestle on Food Safety Politics Marion Nestle is an authority on food politics and policy...

Shocker: A Restaurant Owner Apologizes for Foodborne Illness Outbreak

Posted on September 25, 2009
Although this story comes from across the Atlantic in England, a lesson can still be learned and applied here. According to the Guardian UK, Heston Blumenthal, the world-renowned chef of the Fat Duck restaurant in Bray, Berskshire, has offered a personal apology to the more than 500 people who took ill after dining at the restaurant in January and February, 2009...

Missouri DNR Spokewoman Testifies on E. coli Cover-up

Posted on September 24, 2009
New information in a continuing story we have been following here: Susan Medley, the former spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) told Senate investigators that the delay in the release of information about high bacteria levels at Lake of the Ozarks "stemmed from a department failure to quickly gather information to put the contamination levels into a historical context" according to a Columbia Daily Tribune report...

Fresh Produce Suspected in Three State E. coli Outbreak

Posted on September 23, 2009
A fresh produce may once again be responsible for a new outbreak of the dreaded E. coli O157:H7 bacteria in Utah, Colorado, and New York, the new Food Safety News is reporting today. According to FNS, there is an ongoing investigation is being led by public health agencies in Utah and Colorado; Colorado reportedly has the most cases...

The Uglier Side of Lettuce

Posted on September 23, 2009
After a frightful two-year stretch in 2005 and 2006 that included two Dole spinach/lettuce outbreaks due to E. coli O157:H7 contamination, the resurgence of ground beef as a leading vector in E. coli cases must have caused lettuce to feel a little left out...

FoodTrack Confirms E. coli Investigation

Posted on September 23, 2009
CDC and Three States Investigating E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak The FDA is aware of an outbreak involving E. coli O157:H7 in Utah, Colorado, and New York State. Health officials are conducting investigations with assistance from the CDC. A food vehicle has yet to be identified...

Food Safety News - Great Interviews of Food Safety Leaders

Posted on September 22, 2009
Food safety News has some great interviews and more to come. Richard Raymond - Former Under Secretary For Food Safety Speaks Up Marion Nestle - Food Safety Politics Dave Theno - Food Safety Since Jack in the Box Outbreak

Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning shut mussel and clam harvesting in Oregon

Posted on September 22, 2009
The State Department of Agriculture has closed the entire Oregon coast to recreational mussel and clam harvesting because of the risk of toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. Agency spokesman Bruce Pokarney said Monday that most of the north and central coast had already been closed to mussel harvesting and the state has banned razor clam harvesting since midsummer for conservation reasons...

Delays reported in securing recalled foods from our public schools

Posted on September 22, 2009
The USA Today reported today that "Federal agencies that supply food for 31 million schoolchildren [Food and Nutrition Service] fail to ensure that tainted products are pulled quickly from cafeterias." The audit, which was conducted by Congress's Government Accountability Office, concluded that "The delays raise the risk of children being sickened by contaminated food," according to the USA Today...

Risk Posed by Non-O157 E. coli Greater Than Recognized

Posted on September 21, 2009
According to the results of a study recently published by the CDC, the incidence of dangerous and under-reported non-O157 E. coli infection is on the rise. E. coli is the term given to a large family of bacteria. Within that family, E...

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