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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

Minnesota Judge Rules Hartmann Dairy's Raw Milk is Cause of E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak

Posted on December 22, 2010
Judge Rex D. Stacey, Sibley County, Minnesota has ruled that Hartmann Farm's raw milk products embargoed by the Minnesota should properly be destroyed. In so doing, the Court found unequivocally that the farm's products were the cause of an outbreak of E...

10 Potentially Contaminated Foods

Posted on December 21, 2010
Just in time for the onslaught of holiday gorging, Jim Gorman of Men's Health has published his list of The 10 Dirtiest Foods You're Eating. The list includes chicken, ground beef, ground turkey, raw oysters, cantaloupe, peaches, prepackaged lettuce, cold cuts, and scallions...

A thank you to all Marler Clark clients who worked for food safety

Posted on December 21, 2010
After what appeared to be the end of national food safety legislation last week, the Senate unanimously passed through a Food Safety Bill on Sunday evening, giving great hope and vindication to food safety advocates, like Bill Marler – Managing Partner for the Marler Clark, The Food Safety Law Firm...

Illinois Salmonella Outbreak Update: 43 confirmed cases in 10 counties

Posted on December 21, 2010
The Illinois Department of Health just updated the figures in the Salmonella outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts on sandwiches from Jimmy John's restaurants: Many people who have become ill recently with Salmonella, reported eating alfalfa sprouts at Jimmy John's restaurants in 10 Illinois counties - Adams, Champaign, Cook, DuPage, Kankakee, Macon, McHenry, McLean, Peoria and Will...

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Sprouts salmonella outbreak: 88 ill in 15 states?

Posted on December 21, 2010
Jimmy John's restaurants, implicated in a Salmonella outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts (at least in Illinois), were asked to pull alfalfa sprouts off their menus as a precautionary measure. In what seems like a good move, if a little late, by the man himself, the call came from Jimmy John Liautaud, in a letter to franchisees...

Hepatitis A vaccination clinics set up in Cabell-Huntington counties West Virginia

Posted on December 20, 2010
After multiple confirmed cases of hepatitis A in the area, the Cabell-Huntington Health Department has contacted the 150-200 people exposed to the virus and urged them to attend a special vaccine clinic from noon to 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 20, at Milton Elementary School...

Larry King's Top Moment in 25 Years - Can you say E. coli?

Posted on December 19, 2010
Although I was a bit nervous being on Larry King Live for the first time, he quickly put me at ease when he could not say E. coli. Parts of the beginning of the show had floated around the internet, but this is the most complete introduction - and the funniest:

Jimmy Johns salmonella outbreak: let's rename this bug

Posted on December 19, 2010
The CDC and Illinois Department of Public Health are working together to investigate the Jimmy Johns Salmonella I 4,5,12,i- outbreak that has sickened almost 50 people. Many cases in the outbreak reportedly consumed alfalfa sprouts at Jimmy John's restaurants in nine Illinois counties, including Adams, Champaign, Cook, Kankakee, McHenry, McLean, Peoria, Will and Winnebago...

FDA to get a facelift: only one more step before food safety bill goes to President Obama

Posted on December 19, 2010
The Senate may have saved the food safety bill tonight. In a message this evening, the Senate stated: Prior to adjourning, the Senate passed H.R.2751, as amended by the text of S. 510 (with Tester/Hagen Amendment) minus the offending blue slip provisions...

Dallas company recalls 25,600 pounds of ground beef

Posted on December 18, 2010
According to a USDA press release, Winn Meats Co., a Dallas, Texas, establishment, is recalling approximately 25,600 pounds of ground beef products that were improperly labeled and potentially adulterated. Notably, the recalled products are being recalled from firms to which they were sent for "further processing...

Illinois foodpoisoning outbreaks past

Posted on December 18, 2010
The Illinois Department of Public Health is investigating salmonella contaminated alfalfa sprouts as the source of at least 46 confirmed salmonella illnesses in 9 counties. The outbreak cases were sickened at Jimmy John's restaurants. Illinois residents have been plagued by major foodpoisoning outbreaks in the last few years: Subway, Salmonella Hvittingfoss, 2010 In May, Illinois state health officials traced a widespread Salmonella outbreak at Subway restaurants to one Central Illinois food distributor...

Salmonella outbreak linked to sprouts at Illinois Jimmy Johns restaurants

Posted on December 18, 2010
The Illinois Department of Public Health is investigating a large Salmonella outbreak possibly associated with alfalfa sprouts consumed at Jimmy John's restaurants. The outbreak, which has sickened 46 people with the same strain of salmonella, has hit nine Illinois counties, including Will, Cook, Kankakee, McHenry, Adams, Champaign, Mclean, Peoria and Winnebago...

FDA's take on sprout safety: 46 ill from sprouts at Illinois Jimmy Johns

Posted on December 18, 2010
Sprouts . . . nutritionally dense, next to irresistable on sub sandwiches, and an exceptional medium for the proliferation of dangerous bacteria. Sprouts have been called one of the ten riskiest foods. They have been estimated to have caused 40% of foodborne illness outbreaks linked to fresh produce...

Strain announced in Jimmy Johns Salmonella outbreak

Posted on December 18, 2010
The Illinois Jimmy Johns Salmonella outbreak, believed to be linked to alfalfa sprouts, is just one of two outbreaks to salute what may be the final days of Congress's attempt to pass much needed food safety legislation. (See "Food Safety Bill on Life Support")...

Sally Jackson cheese E. coli outbreak: illnesses in 4 states

Posted on December 17, 2010
Word is that Sally Jackson's cheese E. coli recall comes on the heels of an epidemiological investigation linking at least 8 PFGE-matched illnesses in Oregon, Washington, Vermont, and Minnesota to Sally Jackson cheese products. One person has been hospitalized...

Prior E. coli O157:H7 Outbreaks in Oregon and Washington

Posted on December 17, 2010
Since being ground zero for the infamous Jack-in-the-Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in 1993, the pacific northwest has had its share of E. coli O157H7 outbreaks. It appears another outbreak may be on the way. As reported here this morning, Sally Jackson cheese company, from Oroville, Washington, has recalled all of its cheese products due to contamination by E...

A bad year gets worse for raw milk cheese

Posted on December 17, 2010
Sally Jackson cheese company, from Oroville, Washington, has recalled all of its cheese products due to contamination by E. coli O157:H7. The recalled cheeses, which are made from raw cow, goat, and sheep milk, have been identified as the source of an E...

E. coli Prompts Recall of Sally Jackson Cheese Raw Milk Cheeses in Washington and Oregon

Posted on December 17, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - December 17, 2010 - Sally Jackson Cheese of Oroville, WA is recalling all cheese products, including cow, goat, and sheep, because they may be contaminated with Escherichia coli O157:H7 bacteria (E. coli O157:H7). E. coli O157:H7 causes a diarrheal illness, often with bloody stools...

Salmonella-free eggs: it can be done

Posted on December 16, 2010
Pockets in other parts of the world have been producing salmonella free eggs for years. The egg industry here in the US, however, took a big shot to the jaw this year after theWright County Egg recall and outbreak, which sickened approximately 1,900 with confirmed salmonella illnesses (and untold thousands with unconfirmed illnesses)...

CDC Updates Annual Foodborne Illness Estimate From Major Known Pathogens

Posted on December 15, 2010
Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released two new articles that provide an updated analysis of the incidents of foodborne illness in the United States. The study, broken into two articles—one covering 31 major pathogens and the other covering unspecified foodborne agents—concludes that each year in the United States 47...

New CDC estimates for foodborne illnesses caused by "unspecified agents"

Posted on December 15, 2010
How safe is our food? Put another way, how much illness in the United States is caused by foodborne pathogens? It sounds like a simple question. Getting a reasonable answer, however, is far from simple. The basic problem lies in the fact that only a small fraction of foodborne disease cases get reported through official (or unofficial) reporting systems...

Food Poisoning Outbreak Database Video Presentation

Posted on December 14, 2010
We have tried to create a user-friendly searchable database for many of the foodborne illness outbreaks. We limited the database to outbreaks where a report or article has been issued. I how you find this helpful: To get directly to searching, visit Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database.

Cheese producers not entitled to rely on 60-day aging period to ensure safety of product

Posted on December 14, 2010
Bill Marler's literature review over the past four days, particularly today's 4th installment, should cause you to wonder not "has my raw milk-based cheese been properly aged for 60 days according to legal requirements," but "whether my raw-milk based cheese was made by a cheesemaker whose production methods and raw materials ensure a safe product...

2010's major food recalls and outbreaks

Posted on December 13, 2010
The consumer finance gurus at walletpop.com today released their list of ten major foodpoisoning outbreaks and recalls for 2010. Yes, consumer finance and food outbreaks are tightly linked; some estimates are that every case of E. coli O157:H7 costs an average of $1,000 in physician and hospital services, and medical costs in most of the HUS cases we see easily run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars (not everybody is insured; some go bankrupt as a result; and this says nothing of the other costs, like lost wages, that must be factored into the analysis)...

Cheese E. coli outbreak: final summary coming soon?

Posted on December 13, 2010
Below is the CDC's epi curve showing the onset dates of confirmed illnesses in the Bravo Farms gouda cheese E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. Most of the 38 confirmed cases became ill in the middle of October, likely because that's when the Bravo Farms gouda was most widely available--i...

8:00 PM TONIGHT: Jean Enersen's NORTHWEST NEWSMAKERS special interview with Bill Marler

Posted on December 10, 2010

El Guapo walnuts now included in Atlas Walnuts salmonella recall

Posted on December 10, 2010
El Guapo brand shelled walnuts produced by Mojave Foods Corporation is initiating a recall of sixty (60) packages of El Guapo Shelled Walnuts 1 OZ, date code 5527. El Guapo shelled walnuts were manufactured with walnuts supplied by Atlas Walnuts, of Visalia, California, who recently recalled walnuts after tests showed salmonella contamination...

Food and Pregnancy - Health and Safety Quiz

Posted on December 09, 2010
The Pregnancy Health Information Line, at UCSD, has prepared a quiz to educate pregnant women on avoiding foodborne illness. Thanks to Sam McManis of McClatchy Newspapers for passing it on. Here is the quiz with answers at the bottom - see how you do...

Pablo's Produce recalls cilantro due to Salmonella contamination

Posted on December 09, 2010
Pablo's Produce, Inc. of Oxnard, Ca yesterday voluntarily recalled one lot of cilantro because it has the potential to be contaminated by Salmonella. The recall involves only one lot of cilantro and does not involve any other cilantro sold before or after November 24 or December 2...

Hartmann raw milk products seized by State of Minnesota

Posted on December 08, 2010
Mike Hughlett of the Star Tribune reported last night that the Minnesota Department of Agriculture has seized more raw milk-based products produced by embattled farmer Mike Hartmann of Gibbon, Minnesota. On Tuesday, state agriculture investigators armed with a search warrant seized "hundreds of gallons of raw milk," along with cream, yogurt, cheese and meat from Roger Hartmann, Mike Hartmann's brother, said Gary Wood, executive director of the Foundation for Consumer Free Choice, an advocacy group to which the Hartmanns also belong...

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