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Pew's Produce Safety Project Weighs In On Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak

Posted on November 18, 2008
 One item in the consumer news wrap-up published by the Salt Lake Tribune yesterday caught our eye. It was this:   "A failure by government agencies to coordinate their investigation into a U.S. salmonella outbreak may have put the public at risk and caused needless harm to the tomato industry, according to the Produce Safety Project, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts at Georgetown University...

Pew's Produce Safety Project Weighs In On Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak

Posted on November 18, 2008
 One item in the consumer news wrap-up published by the Salt Lake Tribune yesterday caught our eye. It was this: "A failure by government agencies to coordinate their investigation into a U.S. salmonella outbreak may have put the public at risk and caused needless harm to the tomato industry, according to the Produce Safety Project, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts at Georgetown University...

California's Next Big Housing Boom Will Be For The Calves, Pigs and Chickens--Will There Be Less Salmonella?

Posted on November 05, 2008
We decided not to comment on this one before now because it seemed to be a battle of the experts and we did not have the resources to sort it out. California voters have now spoken and by a 63-36 percent margin, they've said the calves, pigs and chickens will get new housing by 2015...

California's Next Big Housing Boom Will Be For The Calves, Pigs and Chickens--Will There Be Less Salmonella?

Posted on November 05, 2008
We decided not to comment on this one before now because it seemed to be a battle of the experts and we did not have the resources to sort it out. California voters have now spoken and by a 63-36 percent margin, they've said the calves, pigs and chickens will get new housing by 2015...

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Salmonella Contaminated Hershey Candy Found Back On Store Shelves

Posted on November 04, 2008
A couple of years ago, Hershey Canada Inc. recalled some of its candy due to possible salmonella contamination.  Now some of that same candy is showing up on store shelves in the Toronto area. That prompted this action over the weekend: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Hershey Canada warned the public that certain Hershey chocolate products previously recalled on November 12, 2006, have been found for sale in a small number of independent retail outlets in the Etobicoke, North York, Niagara Falls, and Oshawa areas in Ontario...

Salmonella Contaminated Hershey Candy Found Back On Store Shelves

Posted on November 04, 2008
A couple of years ago, Hershey Canada Inc. recalled some of its candy due to possible salmonella contamination.  Now some of that same candy is showing up on store shelves in the Toronto area. That prompted this action over the weekend: The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Hershey Canada warned the public that certain Hershey chocolate products previously recalled on November 12, 2006, have been found for sale in a small number of independent retail outlets in the Etobicoke, North York, Niagara Falls, and Oshawa areas in Ontario...

Volunteers of America Kitchen In Los Angeles Linked To Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on October 24, 2008
A single kitchen that supplies food to 29 preschools operated by the Volunteers of America of Greater Los Angeles has put up to 900 people at risk of exposure to salmonella. A salmonella outbreak linked to the kitchen has sickened more than two dozen children and adults in the Los Angeles area...

Canada's Raw Milk Poster Boy Compares Himself With Gandhi and King--Dilutional or Dilirious?

Posted on October 20, 2008
Let's see.   You cook up a scheme to evade the law.   You get caught.  You then conclude you must be just like Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.  Ordinarily we'd say "Only in America," but this two-bit drama is going on in Canada...

Wisconsin Updates Public On Multi-State Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on October 13, 2008
Well, it's been a week since we learned that consumers were being blamed for a multi-state salmonella outbreak involving under-cooked chicken.  Today, Wisconsin stepped forward with its perspective on the foul situation.  The Wisconsin Department of Health Services said four Wisconsin cases are part of a multi-state Salmonella outbreak that has caused 32 illnesses in 12 states...

Federal Government Blames Salmonella Outbreak On Consumers

Posted on October 06, 2008
Bad, bad, bad consumers!  Don't you fools know that if you pick up the wrong box in the grocery store coolers with thousands of products that can be microwaved that some smaller percentage must be oven-baked?  Can't you read the small print on the boxes?  What's the matter with you? That's what the U...

State Forces Alamosa To Accept Chlorinating & Testing Of Water

Posted on October 05, 2008
Eight months after the town's public water supply was found to be responsible for a salmonella outbreak that made more 400 people sick and contributed to one person's death, Alamosa, Colorado has reached an agreement with the state Department of Health and Environment for regular testing...

If You Get "Poona," The Good News Is You Will Probably Get Over It

Posted on September 30, 2008
If you come down with something with the word "Poona" in it, somehow it seems a whole lot more serious.  However, at least one Canadian health expert is saying you get Salmonella Poona and you get over it.   However serious it gets, health experts in Canada are saying North America is experiencing an outbreak of another rare strain of Salmonella, this one known as "Poona...

20 Salmonella Cases Linked to Amarillo Texas IHOP

Posted on September 25, 2008
According the the Texas Department of Health, as of noon, Wednesday afternoon, the number of salmonella cases reported to the Health Department linked to the IHOP restaurant at I-40 and Western Street has grown to twenty.  Cases still continue to be reported and are investigated, but here are the facts that we know to be verified by a joint investigation and consultation with the Texas Department of State Health Services...

Amarillo IHOP Linked To Salmonella Outbreak

Posted on September 24, 2008
For the third time in three months, the International House of Pancakes (IHOP) in Amarillo, Texas is closed--this time  at  least  seven  confirmed cases of salmonella are linked to  the restaurant. With its location just off Interstate 40 at Western, the IHOP could well be sending a lot more sick people down the road...

Salmonella Outbreak In Pacific Northwest Due To Sprouts, Says Bill Marler

Posted on September 24, 2008
Thirteen people -- nine in Washington and four in Oregon -- have been infected with Salmonella Typhimurium from eating alfalfa sprouts. The illnesses have been traced back to Sprouters Northwest, Inc in Kent, WA, which has voluntarily recalled the product and stopped distributing it...

Outbreak of Salmonella Serotype Saintpaul Infections Associated with Multiple Raw Produce Items --- United States, 2008

Posted on September 24, 2008
From MMWR Weekly Report, August 29, 2008:     On May 22, 2008, the New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) notified CDC about four persons infected with Salmonella Saintpaul strains that were indistinguishable from each other by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and 15 other persons with Salmonella infections whose isolates had not yet been characterized...

Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak Continues In August

Posted on September 24, 2008
The Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak may be winding down, but it is not over.   The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today updated its publicly available data for the first time since last Friday.   The outbreak, which began last April 16, continues this month with August 8 being the latest date for someone becoming a confirmed case...

A Laugh From Argus Hamilton

Posted on September 24, 2008
"Everything that's wholesome and good for you costs $4 a pound and has salmonella in it." --Argus Hamilton is host comedian at The Comedy Store in Hollywood.

Minnesota Restaurant That Helped Crack The Case Named

Posted on September 24, 2008
We've known since we published, Minnesota's "Team Diarrhea" Cracks Salmonella Saintpaul Mystery, that all 27 of the Gopher State's Salmonella Saintpaul victims ate at the same restaurant.   Now we know, from KAAL-TV 6, the name and location of that restaurant...

CDC Says Salmonella Saintpaul Making People Sick As Recently AS July 19

Posted on September 24, 2008
Two and half weeks ago, someone was still getting sick from Salmonella Saintpaul.  According to today's report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the latest onset date for the illness was July 19th.  During much of the outbreak, the latest onset date was as recently as ten days ago or less...

What is Salmonella?

Posted on September 24, 2008
Salmonella is a bacterium that causes one of the most common enteric (intestinal) infections in the United States – Salmonellosis.  In some states (e.g. Georgia, Maryland), salmonellosis is the most commonly reported cause of enteric disease, and overall it is the second most common bacterial foodborne illness reported (usually slightly less frequent than Campylobacter infection)...

Salmonella Saintpaul Lawsuit Filed Against Wal-Mart

Posted on September 24, 2008
The first lawsuit stemming from the Salmonella outbreak that has sickened 1319 people, hospitalized 255 and caused the death of 2 in 43 states, the District of Columbia and Canada was filed today in the District Court of Montezuma County, Colorado. The complaint was filed on behalf of Delores, Colorado resident Brian Grubbs against Wal-Mart and an unknown supplier, referred to as “John Doe”...

The Smoking Hot Pepper Has Been Found, Just Across The Rio Grande

Posted on September 24, 2008
They managed to do it with a little drum roll before a Congressional committee.   The smoking hot pepper has been captured across the Rio Grande in Mexico.   Here's a bit of what the Washington Post reported just a short time ago: Investigators discovered the Salmonella saintpaul strain in irrigation water and serrano peppers on a farm in Mexico, where jalapeno peppers are also grown...

The Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak--The Fat Lady Isn't Singing, But She Maybe Warming Up!

Posted on September 24, 2008
As we go into the weekend, we know more than at anytime since the start of the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak.  We know the source of the outbreak is jalapeño peppers grown, harvested or packed in Mexico.  We know jalapeño and Serrano peppers grown in the USA are safe to eat, be they raw, canned, pickled or cooked...

Minnesota's "Team Diarrhea" Cracks Salmonella Saintpaul Mystery

Posted on September 24, 2008
Did one state with its act together on food poisoning cases crack the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak when all the expertise of the federal government ended up looking like the keystone cops?    The Minneapolis Star-Tribune in a story published on its website tonight, says the answer to that question would be: "Yah, sure! You betcha!" In 'Team Diarrhea' called in to crack salmonella case, Star Tribune health reporters Josephine Marcotty and Maura Lerner, write: In less than two weeks, Minnesota Department of Health investigators traced the source of a mysterious salmonella outbreak that had stumped federal health officials for two months and sickened more than 1,200 people in 43 states and Canada...

Here's The Details on the Recall of Jalapeno Peppers

Posted on September 24, 2008
Jalapeno Peppers  distributed since June 30th by Agricola Zaragoza, Inc. to customers in Georgia and Texas are being recalled because sampling by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) found these Jalapenos are contaminated with the same strain of Salmonella Saintpaul that is responsible for the current Salmonella outbreak...

Salmonella Saintpaul found on Mexican Jalapeno Peppers in a Texas Plant

Posted on September 24, 2008
Only showing how our food system is truly global, today, US government inspectors have found Salmonella Saintpaul, the strain responsible for a nationwide food-poisoning outbreak, in Mexican-grown jalapenos in a Texas plant, prompting a new warning for consumers to avoid eating fresh jalapenos...

Tomatoes, Jalape??o Peppers, Serrano Peppers, and Cilantro still linked to Salmonella Saintpaul Illnesses in United States and Canada

Posted on September 24, 2008
According to the CDC since April, 1237 persons infected genetic fingerprint have been identified in 43 states, the District of Columbia, and Canada. These were identified because clinical laboratories in all states send Salmonella strains from ill persons to their State public health laboratory for characterization...

North Carolina Recalls HASS Avocados & Jalapenos After Testing Positive For Salmonella

Posted on September 24, 2008
The State of North Carolina has forced the recall of Mexican-grown HASS avocados and jalapenos of unknown origin after they tested positive for Salmonella. Two samples from a Charlotte, NC food distributor tested positive for salmonella. The state asked the company to recall jalapeno peppers and HASS avocados it received from a specific Texas food supply company...

CDC Offers New Way Of Looking At the Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak

Posted on September 24, 2008
Interpretation of Epidemic Curves During an Active Outbreak

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