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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

Food Labs Asked To Provide Info To House On Import Tests

Posted on May 27, 2008
Food labs responsible for testing imports for safety are being put under suspicion by the U.S. House Committee on Energy & Commerce. The Committee's Oversight and Investigations subcommittee has sent out letters to ten food labs, suggesting they had been encouraged by importers to keep testing until the product was found to be safe...

Lifeway Pushes Back Against FDA Order To Shutdown Its Cheese & Seafood

Posted on May 17, 2008
This is interesting. Lifeway Foods, Inc. and its subsidiary, LFI Enterprises, Inc., both Illinois companies, are pushing back against the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). The federal government last Thursday (5/15/08) ordered Lifeway to shutdown its cream cheese and seafood operations...

FDA Tells Hope Food Supply to Shut Down

Posted on May 16, 2008
We've been watching the Houston area media today for reports on the Hope Food Supply, which has been shutdown on the order of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA). But, we ain't seen much.There's been no comment out of Hope Food Supply, which has also been ordered to recall all its dried smoked catfish steaks and any other seafoods it has ever produced...

More Stool Cultures Needed to Catch More Food Poisoning Cases

Posted on May 04, 2008
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 76 million foodborne illness cases occur in the United States every year. This amounts to one in four Americans becoming ill after eating foods contaminated with such pathogens as E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, Hepatitis A, Campylobacter, Shigella, Norovirus, and Listeria...

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FDA Has Blocked (for a while) 2,964 Farm Fish Shipments From People's Republic Of China

Posted on April 28, 2008
Something called the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission last week held a hearing on “Chinese Seafood: Safety and Trade Issues.” The big talker was Don Kraemer from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition...

Two-Day Food Labeling Workshop Being Held In Lansing In July

Posted on April 21, 2008
The Institute for Food Laws & Regulations (IFLR) at Michigan State University will present a Food Labeling Workshop on July 23-24, 2008, at The James B. Henry Center for Executive Development adjacent to the MSU campus. This workshop is designed for food industry personnel and regulatory officials who are responsible for reviewing food labels and labeling for compliance with state and U...

Common Misspellings of Food Poison - food poision, food poison, food poisin, food poisons, food poisen

Posted on April 18, 2008
The CDC estimates that 76 million foodborne illness, or food poisoning, cases occur in the United States every year, which means that one in four Americans contracts a foodborne illness annually after eating foods contaminated with such pathogens as E...

Food Safety In Canada Put In Danger By Daffy Decision

Posted on April 16, 2008
The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that there is no evidence of: the relationship between food contamination and hand-washing; nor is there any risk to the public if a restaurant employee's hand-washing is limited (or non-existent) and no reason for concern about other employees being adversely affected...

FoodNet Data For 2007 Shows No Progress Against Food-borne Illness

Posted on April 10, 2008
The Centers on Disease Control & Prevention today (4/10/08) held a telephone press conference to mark the release of "Preliminary FoodNet Data on the Incidence of Infection with Pathogens Transmitted Commonly Through Food - 10 States, United States, 2007" which is also being published in this week's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report...

Colorado's El Paso County Admits It Cannot Keep Up with Inspections

Posted on April 08, 2008
The top health official for Colorado's El Paso County, home of the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Northern Command, and the Northern American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), just acknowledged local restaurants could be unsafe. "We've got a large increase in the number of complaints that are coming to us, we really ought to be out there finding these things before they end up to be a complaint," says El Paso County Public Health Administrator Rosemary Bakes-Martin...

Butter Is Poison And We Should Tax It, Says Professor

Posted on April 06, 2008
Every year the Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association and Pennsylvania Diary Promotion Program sponsor the "butter sculpture" at the Harrisburg Farm Show. This year, the buttery likenesses of Benjamin Franklin and the Liberty Bell were big hits...

Bad Ham, Staph Infections, Toxins Add Up To Lot's of Sick People

Posted on March 28, 2008
Claudia Sanders Dinner House in Shelbyville, KY proves again that sometimes its the really popular places that can be the most dangerous for eating and drinking.After making more than 100 people god-awfully sick with Staphylococcus bacteria on Easter Sunday, the southern landmark is going to re-open for weekend business, beginning tonight with the lounge...

An Important Story We Missed Last Sunday

Posted on March 27, 2008
The decline of the print media gets much attention. So much so, that one sign of life for the print media goes un-noticed. That is the rise of the number of Sunday newspapers. We are a weekend people in this 21st Century, and newspaper publishers while often stupid are usually are not fools...

Typhoid Fever Strikes Long Island Pizzeria

Posted on March 23, 2008
The Centers For Disease Control & Prevention says we do not need get a vaccine for Typhoid Fever unless we travel to Third World countries or work in a laboratory with Salmonella Typhi bacteria. Oh, and if you happen to come into contact with anyone who is a typhoid carrier...

Website Names Most Dangerous States For Eating Out

Posted on March 17, 2008
The quickest way to get ink in newspapers is to do some place-based rankings. Name the states where you are most at risk while eating out, and you are certain to get some play. That's what the website www.healthinspections.com found out last Friday when it named "the five most dangerous states for eating out...

Chairman Dingell Lists What Congress Has Learned

Posted on March 13, 2008
Before the witnesses got to testify in yesterday's hearing of the House Subcommittee on Oversight & Investigations, Chairman John D. Dingell had a few things to say, including:Those who heard the testimony at our first food safety hearing of the parents of the children who became very sick or seriously injured from contaminated food understand how important these efforts are...

Texas Child Dies From Shiga Toxin

Posted on March 10, 2008
KVUE-TV News in Austin, Texas is reporting that one child has died and five other people are ill all due to a shiga toxin. Since an initial report on the illnesses issued late last week by the Texas Department of Health Services, concern about the shiga toxin has become very serious...

Seattle Food Safety Conference

Posted on March 04, 2008
Few subjects draw more immediate attention or concern than the safety of the food we eat. Recent years have seen a plethora of food warnings and recalls, raising new questions about the quality and integrity of our existing system for assuring food safety...

Got Food Borne Illness? Make Online Report!

Posted on March 04, 2008
We deal with many victims of food borne illness, often while they or family members are still being treated at hospitals and clinics. Many of them use the Internet in those moments of crisis to find an attorney. So, we cannot rule out the possibility that victims of food borne illness will also go on-line and fill out a lengthy questionnaire that ultimately will be shared with their local or regional health department...

Marler Gives Congress Specific Food Safety Reforms

Posted on February 26, 2008
As we promised, Bill Marler was making news today on Capitol Hill. Along with a bench full of food industry executives, Marler testified before the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, chaired by Michigan's John D. Dingell.We go to Andrew Schneider's blog at the Seattle P-I for a quick summary of Bill's major points:Seattle lawyer William Marler gave the lawmaker an up close and personal view of many victims of food poisoning that he had encountered...

Hallmark/Westland Was One of USDA's Elite 10

Posted on February 25, 2008
This week, you are going to hear a lot about what the federal government should be doing to clean up its act when it comes to making sure our food supply is safe. John D. Dingell, powerful chairman of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, is holding a public hearing on Tuesday that will hear from lots of experts, including our own Bill Marler...

Clark Says Fruits And Vegetables Not Subject To "Kill Step"

Posted on February 12, 2008
New and troubling questions are raised in a story today by the Gannett News Service about the home grown problems that threaten food safety in the United States. The story by Amanda Gardner quotes Marler Clark partner Bruce Clark about the lack of a "kill step" when it comes to the increasingly tainted fruits and vegetables...

New Era Recalls Still More Products Due To Botulism

Posted on February 07, 2008
We thought New Era's production of botulism was probably over in mid January when it expanded its recall to include all of the beans and garbanzo beans produced by the Michigan processing plant in the last five years.We were wrong.Today, New Era Canning Company announced it was further expanding its recall to include all "vegetable products in #10 cans (large cans containing between 6 and 7 pounds) on the list below because they may have been processed under conditions which could have led to contamination by Clostridium botulinum bacterium spores, which can cause life-threatening illness or death...

FDA Warns Seafood Processors About North Gulf Fish

Posted on February 05, 2008
Seafood processors were warned today about grouper, amberjack, and related predatory reef species captured in the northern Gulf of Mexico due to recent outbreaks of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP) that have been traced to fish from an area in the United States where ciguatera was previously extremely rare...

Dip recalled for possible contamination with Clostridium botulinum

Posted on February 01, 2008
The California Department of Public Health announced today that Olivier brand Parmesan & Asiago Dip with Garlic & Basil was being recalled by Olivier Olive Oil Products, Inc. of Saint Helena, California, due to potential contamination with Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium that causes botulism...

New look for food poisoning informational Web sites

Posted on February 01, 2008
The Marler Clark network of food poisoning informational Web sites, which first appeared online in 1998, recently received a makeover. The sites, which were originally put online to provide Internet users with basic information about the illnesses caused by such foodborne pathogens as E...

Warning issued for raw milk cheeses in Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio

Posted on January 31, 2008
The Indiana State Board of Animal Health's Dairy Division warned consumers not to consume cheeses made from raw milk at the Grassy Meadows Dairy of Howe, Indiana, after testing conducted on the cheeses revealed high levels of staphylococcus aureus (staph) contamination in several samples of the cheeses that were produced before Wednesday...

Foods recalled for botulism, listeria contamination

Posted on January 30, 2008
Seoul Shik Poom, a Hillside, New Jersey, company, recalled frozen, salted, and dried yellow croaker products for potential contamination with clostridium botulinum, the pathogen that causes botulism poisoning, late last week. Products recalled include: BG1103 Salted Yellow Croaker (bag) 2...

Hepatitis A Scare at California Restaurant

Posted on January 23, 2008
Customers who ate at Chuy's Mesquite Broiler on the Rosedale Highway in Bakersfield, California, between January 4 and January 10 are being warned that they may have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus. The Kern County Health Department issued a press release stating that customers who ate at the restaurant between those dates should receive an inoculation to prevent against hepatitis A infection...

Long Term Impacts of Food Illness Prompts STOP To Start National Register

Posted on January 21, 2008
Safe Tables Our Priority (STOP), the nation's advocacy group for victims of food-borne illness, this month is beginning the first national registry of food-poisoning survivors with long-term health problems — people willing to share their medical histories with scientists in hopes of boosting much-needed research...

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