Personal Injury Law

Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak in 38 states sickens hundreds - Daniele Salami the possible link

Posted on January 22, 2010
As I said earlier over at Marler Blog - "since it is Friday, expect a recall tonight (or over the weekend) from FSIS on a meat-like product (Daniele Salami) contaminated with Salmonella Montevideo that has sickened over 200, with some 30 hospitalized in several states...

Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak Linked to Meat in the Offing

Posted on January 21, 2010
The term Salmonella refers to a group or family of bacteria that has been known to cause illness in humans for over 100 years. Salmonella bacteria are usually transmitted to humans by eating foods contaminated with animal feces or foods that have been handled by infected food workers...

Salmonella Information Sheet for Parents

Posted on January 18, 2010
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Merrick Beef Filet Squares recalled due to Salmonella concerns

Posted on January 16, 2010
The Food and Drug administration has warned owners not buy Merrick Beef Filet Squares after tests turned up positive for salmonella, which can sicken both people and pets. The agency, which took the unusual step of issuing a recall notice itself rather than relying on the company, said the potentially contaminated treats were sold nationwide by Merrick Pet Care, based in Amarillo, Texas...

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Hines Nut Company Announces Recall of Pine Nuts Because of Possible Health Risk

Posted on January 15, 2010
Hines Nut Company has initiated a recall of 270 packages of Pine Nuts, packaged under the brand name Harris Teeter Farmers Market. The Pine Nuts were purchased from Red River Foods in Camarillo, CA, and have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella...

FDA Salmonella Health Alert for Merrick Beef Filet Squares Dog Treats Packaged and Distributed by Merrick Pet Care

Posted on January 14, 2010
The U. S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to use Merrick Beef Filet Squares for dogs distributed by Merrick Pet Care with a package date of 'Best By 111911' because the product may be contaminated with Salmonella. The product was distributed nationwide through retail stores and Internet sales...

Newark Restaurant, Iberia Peninsula, Source of Salmonella at Baptism and Christmas Parties

Posted on December 31, 2009
Newark health officials have linked the Iberia Peninsula restaurant to at several patrons hospitalized with many still on antibiotics. According to the New Jersey Department of Health and Human Services, salmonellosis - the condition caused by swallowing the bacteria salmonella, a fecal bacterium - can last for five to seven days, with victims suffering diarrhea, vomiting and, in severe cases, chronic arthritis...

Salmonella Scare at Newark Iberia Restaurant

Posted on December 30, 2009
According to FOX News Newark, Health officials are investigating what may be a Salmonella outbreak at the Iberia Peninsula restaurant in Newark. Dozens of people got sick after a party in the Ironbound section of the city Sunday night. At least one person who was there has been hospitalized at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in New Brunswick...

More bad News About Drug-Resistant Salmonella

Posted on December 27, 2009
The New York Times reported a month ago that "Salmonella: Drug-Resistant Strain of Bacteria Gains in Africa, With High Death Rates."  Apparently, yet another new drug-resistant strain of bacteria has emerged in the last decade in Africa and is causing unusual numbers of deaths there according to British and African researchers...

Salmonella is Heat Resistant

Posted on December 23, 2009
Salmonella was more resistant to heat treatment of whole cuts of beef than in ground beef products, according to a study in the Journal of Food Science, published by the Institute of Food Technologists. Although the interior of whole cuts of beef products has long been assumed to be sterile, contamination and survival of pathogens have been reported...

Don't play with your Snake - Or, at least wash the Salmonella off your hands afterward

Posted on December 19, 2009
Ashley Meeks of the Las Cruces Sun-News reported that 10-year-old Eric Spagnola was hospitalized for nearly a week and was hooked up to IVs. His stool test came back positive for salmonella. According to Meeks, Spagnola's mother's boyfriend keeps a python...

Willamette Filbert Growers Recalls Salmonella Hazelnuts

Posted on December 17, 2009
An Oregon company is recalling nearly 30,000 pounds of shelled hazelnuts over concerns that they may be contaminated with salmonella.  The Willamette Filbert Growers or Meridian Organic shelled hazelnuts were processed from Oct. 12 through Nov. 25...

Scott County Health Department warns of possible salmonella contamination from head cheese

Posted on December 16, 2009
The Scott County Health Department is asking people who may have purchased head cheese that originated in New Hamburg to discard it for fear it may be contaminated with salmonella. According to a health department news release, a public health investigation has determined that there may be a risk of salmonella contamination associated with the consumption of head cheese produced and distributed at a private residence in mid-November in New Hamburg...

Pet Carousel pulls salmonella pig ears and beef hoof products

Posted on December 11, 2009
Pet Carousel of Sanger, California announced the action after tests by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealed the products contained salmonella, a bacterium that can infect humans and animals and cause serious health problems. The action also comes on the heels of a warning the U...

Do Not Kiss the Frog - Outbreak of Human Salmonella Typhimurium Infections Associated with Contact with Water Frogs

Posted on December 07, 2009
CDC is collaborating with public health officials in many states to investigate a multistate outbreak of human Salmonella serotype Typhimurium infections due to contact with water frogs including African Dwarf Frogs. Water frogs commonly live in aquariums or fish tanks...

Beef Packers, Inc., a.k.a Cargil, recalls Salmonella-tainted hamburger in August and December

Posted on December 05, 2009
According to FSIS, today: Beef Packers, Inc., a Fresno, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 22,723 pounds of ground beef products that may be linked to an outbreak of salmonellosis, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today...

Timco Worldwide Recalls Salmonella Watermelons

Posted on November 29, 2009
Timco Worldwide recalls cases of seedless watermelons because of potential salmonella contamination. Timco has revealed that it is recalling 812 cases of large seedless watermelons, following the discovery of salmonella in the outside rind of a piece of fruit on 19 November...

CFIA warn public not to consume NutriSystem's Peanut Butter Granola Bars

Posted on November 26, 2009
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning the public not to consume the NutriSystem brand Peanut Butter Granola Bars because the product may be contaminated with salmonella. The affected product is sold in 40-gram packages bearing UPC 6 32674 37016 7 and lot code TC05219B...

Five Crowns Marketing Voluntarily Recalling Cantaloupes Packed under the Majesty Label Because of a Potential Health Risk Due to Possible Contamination of Salmonella

Posted on November 23, 2009
Five Crowns Marketing, Brawley, California is issuing this release today voluntarily recalling cantaloupes packed under the Majesty label because of a potential health risk due to possible contamination of Salmonella. No illnesses have been reported to date, and the company is working with FDA to inform consumers of this recall...

Efficacy of aqueous and alcohol-based quaternary ammonium sanitizers for reducing Salmonella in dusts generated in almond hulling and shelling facilities

Posted on November 22, 2009
Journal of Food Science Wen-Xian Du, Michelle D. Danyluk, and Linda J. Harris ABSTRACT Large volumes of fine particulate matter or "dust" (soil, hulls, and shells) generated when hulls and shells are removed from almond kernels complicate cleaning and sanitation procedures in the huller-sheller (HS) environment...

Five Crowns Marketing Voluntarily Recalling Pantaloupes Packed under the Majesty Label Because of a Potential Health Risk Due to Possible Contamination of Salmonella

Posted on November 21, 2009
Five Crowns Marketing, Brawley, California is issuing this release today voluntarily recalling cantaloupes packed under the Majesty label because of a potential health risk due to possible contamination of Salmonella. No illnesses have been reported to date, and the company is working with FDA to inform consumers of this recall...

Bankruptcy Claims Against Peanut Corporation of America Hit 154

Posted on November 19, 2009
A 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...

Dog treats tainted with Salmonella

Posted on November 13, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is issuing this health alert to warn consumers not to use Pig Ears and Beef Hooves pet treats manufactured by Pet Carousel because the products may be contaminated with Salmonella. The products were distributed nationwide in both bulk and retail packaging for sale in pet food and retail chain stores...

Felony charges for Bad Food - It is about time!

Posted on November 10, 2009
Georgia State legislation is in the works that could lead to felony prosecution of food processors responsible for contaminated products. The bill is being prepared almost a year after a deadly salmonella outbreak linked to a Georgia peanut plant. The Blakely, Georgia peanut processing plant was the focal point of a nationwide salmonella outbreak earlier this year...

Nut Butter Plant Has Salmonella Newport and Java Problem

Posted on October 31, 2009
The 36-year-old East Wind Community Inc., a commune in the Missouri Ozarks, has a Salmonella problem inside its nut butter manufacturing facility. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said its inspectors collected samples from inside the East Wind nut butter plant and its laboratory analysis discovered the presence of Salmonella...

Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Infections Associated With Small Turtle Exposure, 2007-2008

Posted on October 19, 2009
PEDIATRICS (doi:10.1542/peds.2009-0272) Julie R. Harris, PhDa,b, David Bergmire-Sweat, MPHc, Julie H. Schlegel, MSPd, Kim A. Winpisinger, MSe, Rachel F. Klos, DVMf, Christopher Perry, BSa,g, Robert V. Tauxe, MDa and Mark J. Sotir, PhDa Objective:  Turtle-associated salmonellosis was increasingly recognized in the United States during the 1960s, leading to a federal ban in 1975 on the sale of turtles <4 inches in carapace length (small turtles)...

Salmonella-tainted Cantaloupe Recalled

Posted on October 18, 2009
Raley's grocers is recalling 1,120 cartons of Del Monte cantaloupe sold in Northern California and Nevada after routine testing detected salmonella in some of the produce, according to the California Department of Public Health. The cantaloupe was sold throughout the San Francisco Bay Area at Raley's and its subsidiaries, Nob Hill Foods and Food Source...

Salmonella Canola Banned From US

Posted on October 16, 2009
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration refused 13 shipments of Canadian canola meal that contained salmonella in August and September, all from plants owned by Bunge Ltd., the FDA's website showed. Twelve shipments came from a Bunge plant in Nipawin, Sask...

Warning in Michigan - Alfalfa Sprouts May Contain Salmonella

Posted on October 09, 2009
Michigan State health officials are warning people not to eat raw alfalfa sprouts, which have sickened individuals in Kent County and across the state. The Michigan Department of Community Health and Department of Agriculture said 12 cases of Salmonella Typhimurium infections caused by eating raw alfalfa sprouts have been reported in Kent, Bay, Genesee, Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and Wayne Counties...

Antibiotic Resistance in Salmonella

Posted on October 03, 2009
Salmonella is a leading cause of foodborne illness worldwide, with an estimated 1.4 million cases each year in the United States alone (1). Salmonella infections are typically due to consumption of food products of animal origin. Several lines of evidence indicate that antibiotic-resistance among human Salmonella infections results from the use of antimicrobial agents in food animals (2)...

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