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Eggs from Colorado with Salmonella
Sixdog Investments LLC of Wellington, CO, is voluntarily recalling some cases of their certified organic eggs sold under the Owl Canyon brand because of potential contamination with Salmonella. The...
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Don’t Eat Your Snake’s Mice with Salmonella
As of May 13, 2014, a total of 37 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 18 states. The number of ill persons reported from each state is as...
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Fuego’s Tortilla Grill Outbreak – A Long History of Mexican-style Restaurant...
Fuego’s Tortilla Grill Restaurant voluntarily shut down today amid an investigation by the Brazos County Health Department into an outbreak of a food-borne illness. Health department officials said...
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Foster Farm’s Salmonella Toll Rises
The CDC reports this evening that another 50 have been added to the Foster Farm’s illness column since April 2014. Since March 1, 2013, a total of 574 individuals infected with the outbreak strains of...
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CSPI sues FSIS to Deem Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella Adulterants in Ground...
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, the nonprofit food safety watchdog group, is asking the court to require USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service to respond to a three-year-old...
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Foster Farms Takes Swing at Orkin over Roaches
Ken Carlson of the Modesto Bee reports that Foster Farms is suing Orkin LLC, charging the pest control company was to blame for cockroaches that resulted in a three-day shutdown of its Livingston...
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Salmonella Chia Powder Strikes Arizona, California, Connecticut,...
Collaborative investigation efforts of state, local, and federal public health and regulatory agencies indicate that organic sprouted chia powder distributed by Navitas Naturals of Novato, California...
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More Sick with Salmonella Infantis and Salmonella Newport Infection from Same...
The CDC reports as of May 27, 2014, a total of 126 persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Infantis or Salmonella Newport have been reported from 26 states. Since the last update on...
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Salmonella Chia Powder Sickens 21 in US and Canada
Nine cases in Canada – Twelve cases in United States The Public Health Agency of Canada is collaborating with Provincial public health partners, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and Health Canada...
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DeCosters facing 1 year in jail and $100,000 fine each linked to 2010...
AP reports that an Iowa company has agreed to pay $6.8 million in fines for crimes that include selling the tainted eggs that caused a nationwide salmonella outbreak in 2010. A plea agreement filed...
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Will Jack DeCoster Avoid Jail? I do not think so this time
Update: From USA Today: “I commend the U.S. attorney for bringing federal charges,” said Bill Marler, a Seattle-based food safety lawyer for more than two decades. “It’s possible these guys could...
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Chia Powder Sickens 26 in US and Canada
I never thought I could use a Chia Head on a blog post (note, there is no indication that these heads are dangerous – just ugly) As of June 2, 17 people from 10 U.S. states been sickened with...
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Salmonella Outbreak at Proper Restaurant
The Watauga County office of Appalachian District Health Department is working with the N.C. Division of Public Health to investigate a gastrointestinal illness outbreak among patrons of a local...
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46 Ill in US and Canada due to Salmonella Chia Seeds
As of June 2, 2014, a total of 17 ill persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Newport (12 persons) or Salmonella Hartford (5 persons) have been reported from 10 states. The number of...
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Iowa Public Radio Interview – Salmonella, DeCoster and Jail
“Unprecedented” Settlement Could Mean Jail Time for Elder DeCoster Host Ben Kieffer talks with Seattle, Washington food safety lawyer Bill Marler, who represented some of those sickened in a 2010...
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51 with Salmonella Newport or Salmonella Hartford in Canada and United Stated...
Thirty-four sick in Canada – Seventeen sick in United States The Public Health Agency of Canada has reported that two strains of Salmonella have been associated with an outbreak: Salmonella Newport and...
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Proper Restaurant Salmonella Outbreak as High as 37
The Appalachian District Health Department says that as of Monday afternoon, 37 individuals had symptoms consistent with Salmonellosis. Three days after health officials in Watauga County confirmed a...
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Chia Powder with Salmonella Sickens 55 in Arizona, California, Colorado,...
The CDC reports this evening that as of June 9, 2014, a total of 21 ill persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Newport (13 persons), Salmonella Hartford (6 persons), or Salmonella...
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Bearded Dragons Sicken 150 With Salmonella
As of June 6, 2014, a total of 150 persons infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Cotham (145 persons) or Salmonella Kisarawe (5 persons) have been reported from 35 states since February 21,...
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Perhaps it is Time to Test some Chicken?
Being in Hong Kong gives me the advantage of being 15 hours ahead of my office in Seattle. While they are sleeping, I can get a little work and reading done – and do a little plotting as well. NBC...
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