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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

Botulism Forces New Era To Call Back All It Produced In Last 5 Years

Posted on January 18, 2008
Michigan's troubled New Era Canning Company was forced on Friday night to expand its botulism recall to all canned green beans and garbanzo beans distributed by the company nationwide over the last five years. That could be a great deal of product. According to the company's website: New Era Canning now processes over 100 million pounds of produce annually for the private label industry...

Ground beef source of E. coli

Posted on January 18, 2008
This week's food safety infosheet (pdf) from the International Food Safety Network focuses on what we learned this week - that ground beef is once again the source of a multi-state E. coli outbreak. At least five people in Wisconsin and one California resident became ill with E...

Listeria found in 16 of 100 samples taken from dairy

Posted on January 17, 2008
The outbreak investigation into the Listeria outbreak traced to the consumption of Whittier Farms milk products revealed contamination in several areas of the milk plant, according to reports from the Boston Herald and the Metro West Daily News. The Massachusetts Department of Public Health announced today: More than 100 environmental and milk samples were taken from the processing plant as part of the investigation...

US Food Safety Profiled, Part III

Posted on January 16, 2008
In the third of its three-part series on US food safety, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution published Health Day's shopping list of US food safety solutions. This last part focuses on what's to come for food safety -- changes are needed in our food safety net, but what changes are needed, and how drastic do those changes need to be? Some have proposed a federal "superagency" that would take on the food safety responsibilities currently housed within the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)...

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US Food Safety Profiled, Part II

Posted on January 15, 2008
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and HealthDay continued their coverage on the US food supply today. This time, though, the focus wasn't on foods produced in the US - it was on foods imported from countries such as China, Mexico, and Costa Rica...

South Dakota Salmonella outbreak linked to illness in other states

Posted on January 15, 2008
Public health officials in South Dakota have confirmed 22 cases of Salmonella Newport that is similar to a strain of Salmonella Newport that has been identified as causing illness among residents of four other states. An outbreak investigation is under way to determine whether victims of the outbreak ate the same food, but so far investigators have not been able to pinpoint the source of the outbreak...

FDA Says Clones Can Go On The Menu

Posted on January 15, 2008
This just in from the United States Food and Drug Administration:After years of detailed study and analysis, the Food and Drug Administration has concluded that meat and milk from clones of cattle, swine, and goats, and the offspring of clones from any species traditionally consumed as food, are as safe to eat as food from conventionally bred animals...

Campylobacter outbreak traced to raw milk in Washington

Posted on January 15, 2008
The Bellingham Herald reported today on a Campylobacter jejuni outbreak that has been traced to the consumption of raw milk purchased from a Whatcom County, Washington, dairy. In December, the Whatcom County Health Department issued a warning to consumers that Campylobacter had been isolated from a sample of milk produced at the Pleasant Valley Dairy in Ferndale...

US Food Safety Profiled

Posted on January 14, 2008
The US food safety system was profiled today in an article published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The article, which is the first in a three-part series, focused on what we know about our food safety system: Fresh produce is more and more popular, and has become the leading cause of foodborne illness outbreaks...

"Honey, Would You Please Take Out the Botulism?!!

Posted on January 11, 2008
Anyone stuck with cans of "GFS Fancy Blue Lake Cut Green Beans" from the New Era Canning Company in New Era, Michigan better be careful. They may carry deadly Botulism inside.So the U.S. Food & Drug Administration is recalling them and telling consumer to throw them away---very carefully...

More beans recalled in possible botulism scare

Posted on January 10, 2008
The Food and Drug Administration announced Tuesday that Michigan-based New Era Canning Company was recalling several cases of canned beans because they were not adequately cooked during processing. Under-cooking of canned beans can lead to the growth of clostridium botulinum, the bacterium that causes botulism...

Norovirus

Posted on January 09, 2008
Natalie Angier, wrote about noroviruses in yesterday's New York Times. Her family had a run-in with a norovirus after New Year's Eve, and she did some research into norovuiruses. Part of what she found is this: Its sour suite of symptoms is often referred to as “stomach flu,” but norovirus infection is distinct from the flu, which is caused by the influenza virus and targets not the gut but the lungs...

Third man dead after drinking Listeria-tainted milk

Posted on January 08, 2008
The Boston Globe reported today on the death of an 87-year-old man who passed away after suffering a Listeria infection he contracted from drinking milk supplied by the Whittier Farms Dairy. Stephen Smith, the story's author, wrote about this most recent death and about the illness of a pregnant woman and her baby: The 87-year-old man fell ill in November and died Thursday, said Donna Rheaume, spokeswoman for the state department of public health...

Pennsylvania woman hospitalized with botulism

Posted on January 08, 2008
Schumacher's Inn in Pennsylvania recalled its canned soups earlier this month after botulism spores were identified in a sample of the soup tested by public health officials, and a woman became ill with botulism poisoning. The woman was hospitalized on December 19; health officials have not issued an update on her condition...

"Three Real Threats. But Don't Worry. (Be Happy!)

Posted on January 07, 2008
Read the '' New York Times'' if you want. They get lucky sometimes. You may remember those words from "Men in Black." Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) was showing Agent J (Will Smith) that it is always wise to check "the hot sheets" when you want to know what's really going on out there...

E. coli recall in Michigan, Salmonella outbreaks in Pennsylvania, Montana

Posted on January 07, 2008
On January 5, Mark's Quality Meats, Inc. of Detroit, Michigan, recalled over 13,000 pounds of ground beef and steak products that were produced in late December after E. coli contamination was identified through lab testing. In announcing the recall, the Food Safety and Inspection Service stated that no illnesses have been reported in connection with the recall...

Pennsylvania: Botulism found in canned soup

Posted on January 03, 2008
The Pennsylvania Department of Health issued a warning to consumers who purchased canned soup and other products from Schumacher's Inn, located in Austin, Pennsylvania, to throw the product out after one of the cans tested positive for Clostridium Botulinum, the bacterium that causes botulism poisoning...

Milk confirmed as source of Massachusetts Listeria outbreak

Posted on January 03, 2008
Public health officials in Massachusetts have confirmed that a listeriosis outbreak was caused by the consumption of milk purchased from Whittier Farms. They used Pulsed Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) to obtain the "genetic fingerprint" of the strain of Listeria that was isolated from case-patients and milk provided by the dairy for testing...

California: Raw Milk Legislation Contested

Posted on December 28, 2007
Two California raw milk dairies filed a lawsuit yesterday against the state of California Department of Agriculture in an effort to stop AB1735 from going into effect. The law, which was passed by the California legislature, will require raw milk producers to reduce the number of coliform bacteria in bottled raw milk to 10 per milliliter...

Ground beef recalled for E. coli contamination in Texas

Posted on December 28, 2007
The US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service announced yesterday that Texas American Food Service Corporation of Fort Worth, Texas, was recalling 14,800 pounds of ground beef products for possible E. coli contamination. The products were sold under American Fresh Foods labels (right)...

Massachusetts: Milk recalled after 2 deaths

Posted on December 27, 2007
The Milford Daily News reported that two people died after drinking milk produced by Whittier Farms in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. According to the story, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health issued a warning to consumers not to drink milk produced by the dairy because it might be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes...

Ground beef recalled for Listeria contamination

Posted on December 27, 2007
The USDA announced Tuesday that ground beef patties distributed to schools had been recalled for contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. According to the USDA recall announcement: The Maramont Corporation, a Brooklyn, N.Y, firm, is voluntarily recalling approximately 88 pounds of a beef patty product that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U...

Botulism found in green beans

Posted on December 27, 2007
The discovery that 1,026 cans of green beens were possibly contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, the bacterium that causes botulism, resulted in a recall of the product last week. The Food and Drug Administration issued a notice to consumers, which was subsequently distributed through the media...

A look back on 2007's E. coli problems

Posted on December 21, 2007
Annys Shin wrote in today's Washington Post: After three relatively quiet years, the 20 recalls this year have raised new doubts about whether the beef industry's attempts to keep the pathogen out of ground beef, and the government's oversight of those efforts, are working...

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