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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

Cantaloupe Recall due to Potential Salmonella Contamination

Posted on August 30, 2009
A company called Melon Acres, which is located in Oaktown, Ind., recently recalled cantaloupes that it had shipped to three states in the Midwest due to Salmonella contamination. The bad, or potentially bad, melons made their way on August 13-14 to the Aldi's store in Greenwood Indiana, and Meijer stores in Lansing and Newport Michigan and Tipp City Ohio...

Green Onion Recall due to Potential Salmonella Contamination

Posted on August 29, 2009
Ocean Mist Farms, a Castroville, California vegetable company, has issued a voluntary recall of iceless green onions due to potential contamination by Salmonella bacteria. The company decided to issue the recall after confirmation from federal regulators of a positive test for salmonella on green onions supplied by Circle Produce to several shippers, including Ocean Mist Farms...

Fish from 291 streams test positive for mercury in USGS survey

Posted on August 28, 2009
In its recent publication, 'Data on Mercury in Water, Bed Sediment, and Fish from Streams Across the United States, 1998–2005,' (pdf) the United States Geological Survey (USGS), a division of the Department of the Interior (DOI), released information related to mercury contamination in 291 streams and rivers across the country...

Food Safety Regulators Voice Support for Animal ID System

Posted on August 27, 2009
High-profile food safety regulators recently explained the need for a national animal identification system, according to this report on Drovers.com. The comments were made at the "ID Info Expo 2009" in Kansas City, Missouri. Proposals for such a tracking system often draw criticism from the livestock industry, centering around concerns over cost and bureaucracy...

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E. coli and Food Recalls: Progress, Really?

Posted on August 26, 2009
The Wisconsin State Journal recently published an excerpt from an interview on the increased number of food recalls we have seen in the last few years. In the interview, Dr. Kathleen Glass of the Food Research Institute at UW-Madison concluded, in part at least, "That the food-safety system is working, even though the number of recalls is rising...

E. Coli O157:H7 Illnesses Close Daycare in UK

Posted on August 26, 2009
The majority of the E. coli O157:H7 cases we pursue involve the consumption of contaminated food or drink. It is possible though, for E. coli O157:H7 to be transmitted from person to person, through fecal-oral transmission. Such transmission is more likely in a day-care settings...

Campylobacter: the King of Foodborne Disease in the US

Posted on August 22, 2009
It is a wonder that Campylobacter doesn't get more attention as a public health scourge. It has long ruled the international kingdom of diarrhea as the most prevalent foodborne disease worldwide--the United States too--yet the average person walking down the street has probably never heard of it...

E. coli outbreak at Welsh dance camp

Posted on August 21, 2009
BBC has been following an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak among attendees of a dance camp held in Cresselly, Wales. At least thirteen people who attended the dance camp have reported symptoms consistent with E. coli infection since the camp's conclusion on August 9...

32 Hepatitis A Cases Now Linked to Milan McDonalds

Posted on August 19, 2009
According to the Quad-City Times, the Rock Island County Health Department has reported its 18th case of hepatitis A stemming from an outbreak that began about a month ago. "This individual is a household contact to one of the cases reported the week of July 13," said Theresa Foes, a spokeswoman for the health department...

Botulism: Equal Parts Public Health Scourge and Cosmetic Miracle?

Posted on August 19, 2009
It may surprise some people to learn that the often-lethal toxins produced by the Clostridium botulinum bacteria, which cause botulism illnesses, are a chief ingredient in certain cosmetic/medical products. In fact, the FDA recently updated its safety warnings about medical products that contain botulism toxins...

Op-ed - William D. Marler, Esquire - Speech Before the House of Lords - How one Peanut Company caused $1.5 Billion in Losses?

Posted on August 18, 2009
The recall of Salmonella-tainted peanuts and peanut products processed and produced by the Peanut Corporation of America has caused one of the largest food recalls in US history; almost 4000 products made by hundreds of companies have been withdrawn, and the number is still growing...

Marler Clark has Tested Retail Hamburger for Non-O157:H7 Pathogenic Shiga Toxin Producing E. coli - Abstract Available

Posted on August 18, 2009
We have completed a portion of the first year's tests and are in the process of compiling the data. We hope to publish the results in the next month. (See Abstract) Non-O157 STEC are capable of causing the same debilitating triad of diseases as E. coli O157:H7, including hemorrhagic colitis, hemolytic uremic syndrome, and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura...

Marler Op-ed - Open Letter to an Under Secretary for Food Safety - FSIS - The End of E. coli Conservatism

Posted on August 18, 2009
In April 2007, Rick Perlstein penned a piece entitled 'E. coli Conservatism.' His bottom line was the 'Conservatism has been killing Americans. The recent food safety crisis is only one case study.' Perhaps he is in part right. However, whatever the political reasons for the 'food safety crisis,' it has been long in coming and the system needs to be fixed...

Seattle Voices with Bill Marler - Interview with Food Poisoning Lawyer

Posted on August 18, 2009
Bill Marler is a national expert on foodborne illness. He has been deeply involved in issues related to food companies whose contaminated products have caused serious injury and death. His advocacy for better food regulation and his work as a lawyer has led to invitations to address local, national, and international gatherings on food safety, including recent testimony to the U...

Marcacci Meats Recalls 128 Pounds of E. coli O157:H7 Hamburger

Posted on August 18, 2009
Pasha Halal Poultry, doing business as Marcacci Meats, a Vineland, N.J., establishment, is recalling approximately 128 pounds of 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...

Antibiotic Resistant Salmonella and The Meat You Eat

Posted on August 14, 2009
The presence of antibiotic resistant Salmonella at the slaughterhouse may be one thing, but its presence in retail meat (i.e. its final stop before consumption) is yet another. So how much retail meat (ground turkey, chicken, beef, and pork) is actually contaminated at the point of purchase? And with what? An article in the New England Journal of Medicine reported on a study that answers these specific questions...

Wrong but not Illegal? How Comforting.

Posted on August 14, 2009
I wrote on this site previously about the decision of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources not to release information about dangerously high levels of E. coli in the Lake of the Ozarks until after a busy tourist weekend. Good reporting by the Kansas City Star brought the issue to light, and the Missouri Attorney General opened an investigation...

Canadian Health Officials Warn of Salmonella in Green Onions

Posted on August 14, 2009
The Canadian Press is reporting that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a salmonella warning about green onions sold at six stores in the Windsor-Essex area of southwestern Ontario. The report states: The agency is warning people not to eat the jumbo green onions imported by Vitale Produce of Windsor, because they could be contaminated with salmonella...

Is Salmonella Newport an adulterant?: I wonder what World Health would say?

Posted on August 13, 2009
The recall of over 826,000 pounds of ground beef, produced by Beef Packers Inc (aka Cargill), due to Salmonella contamination has resounded loudly in the food biz . . . but unfortunately not because a recall linked to ground beef is such a rarity. It most certainly is not...

More Salmonella News: Green Onions Recalled

Posted on August 13, 2009
California based NewStar Fresh Foods today recalled green onions due to possible Salmonella contamination. 772 cartons of iced jumbo green onions are subject to the recall, sold under the brand names Omo and Fu Choy, and distributed from three locations: R...

McDonald's Is Responsible for the Illinois Hepatitis-A Outbreak

Posted on August 13, 2009
As the number of Hepatitis A illnesses in and around Milan, Illinois climbs, media coverage has been focusing on the alleged failure of a local hospital to report the initial case to the health department. That criticism may be well deserved. From both a legal and policy standpoint though, the McDonald's restaurant and those that operated it are responsible for the outbreak...

Modern Food Production Provides the Perfect Machanism For Mass Foodborne Illness Outbreaks

Posted on August 13, 2009
The health staff writers over at the LA Times have written a great article, Eating With the Enemy, on the growing prevalence of widespread foodborne illnesses stemming from products as seemingly disparate as ground beef, romaine lettuce, cilantro, Anaheim peppers, granola nut clusters, alfalfa sprouts and of course, peanuts...

Peregrina Cheese Recalled due to Listeria Concerns

Posted on August 13, 2009
A Brooklyn, New York, company called Peregrina Cheese Corporation announced a recall today of all products manufactured in its Brooklyn since March 17, 2009. The company announced the recall today due to fears that the recalled products may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, which is a devastating foodborne pathogen that is particularly dangerous to young children, the elderly, and others with weakened immune systems...

McDonald's Hepatits A Case Count Rises to 30

Posted on August 12, 2009
The Quad City Times reports today that the number of Hepatitis-A cases related to the Milan, Illinois McDonald's has risen to 30 individuals. The article states: The Illinois Department of Public Health and the Rock Island County Health Department reported the total number of cases, saying they are all related to people who visited a McDonald's restaurant at 400 W...

McDonald's Hepatitis A Case Count Rises to 30

Beef Packers Inc (Cargill) Cited in 2008 for Electrically Stunning and Then Dragging Cattle to Slaughter

Posted on August 11, 2009
According to Garance Burke, super AP reporter, USDA records show that Beef Packers, Inc., that recalled tons of hamburger meat due to salmonella fears was slapped with humane handling violations in a government review of meatpacking plants last year...

Rock Island County Sheriff Slams Healthcare Providers for Dropping Ball on Hepatitis A

Posted on August 11, 2009
The Rock Island County Sheriff's Department has released a report stating that Trinity Regional Health System failed to properly notify county health officials of the first of at least 26 Hepatitis A illnesses related to the outbreak at the Milan McDonald's...

So, why is E. coli O157:H7 considered an adulterant, but other shiga-toxin E. coli not? Why is Salmonella not considered an adulterant, even when the Salmonella is antibiotic-resistant Salmonella Newport?

Posted on August 10, 2009
William D. Marler - Op-ed Personally, as I said to the Los Angeles Times a few days ago, 'I think that anything that can poison or kill a person should be listed as an adulterant' [in food]. According to the CDC, E. coli O157:H7 is the source of an estimated 73,000 illnesses, 2,000 hospitalizations, and 60 deaths in the United States every year...

So, Beef Packers Inc. (a.k.a. Cargill) Recalls Salmonella Newport Beef - Why Hasn't It Or FSIS Told Us Where It Was Sold?

Posted on August 10, 2009
William D. Marler - Op-ed When we hear that there has been a recall of hamburger tainted with Salmonella Newport, how many of us would know which company slaughtered the cow and ground the meat? Would we know that the meat came from Beef Packers Inc...

Sample With Actual Strain Not Found, But CDC Wraps Bow Around Nestle With Epidemiological Study: Issues Final Web Report

Posted on August 10, 2009
Web updates on outbreaks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are like those old 'paint by numbers' sets. Sometimes it takes several passes, but eventually the picture is filled out pretty well. In its fifth and final update on the multi-state outbreak of E...

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