The Atlanta-based Centers For Disease Control and Prevention is ending the first quarter of the year with a handful of active foodborne illness investigations.
CDC is the nation’s leading science-based…
Continue Reading CDC ends the first quarter with some important active casesThe owner of a dairy company in Switzerland is facing criminal charges about a fatal Listeria outbreak.
The public prosecutor’s office in Schwyz announced this week that it had completed…
Continue Reading Swiss dairy boss faces criminal charges in Listeria caseRepresentatives from the poultry meat sector in Poland have responded to reports in the United Kingdom about the risk of Salmonella in products.
Broadcaster ITV and The Bureau of Investigative…
Continue Reading Polish poultry meat sector insists products are safeThe Food and Drug Administration continues using import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
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Continue Reading FDA steps up import alerts on certain foods because of Salmonella and pesticidesAlbertsons Companies LLC is recalling certain Signature Select, Athens, and Cal Pia brand bread because of metal and plastic shavings in product.
According to the details posted online by the…
Continue Reading Bread recalled in California and Nevada over foreign object contaminationBob Evans Farms is recalling certain Bob Evan’s Original Mash Potato because of the potential for foreign material, specifically red plastic, in the product.
According to the details posted online…
Continue Reading Mashed potatoes recalled over plastic in productGoldenway International Trade Co. Ltd.’s Enoki Mushrooms are being recalled from the marketplace because of possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination.
This recall was triggered by Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) test…
Continue Reading Enoki mushrooms recalled in Canada after testing finds ListeriaHouse Agriculture Chairman Glenn Thompson (R-PA) may be making it tougher to pass a new Farm Bill.
Thompson is insisting on including what he calls “a fix” for California’s Proposition…
Continue Reading Farm bill could be bogged down because of California’s Prop 12The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have declared over a multi-state outbreak of foodborne infections from Raw Farms unpasteurized cheese.
The E. coli O157:H7 outbreak sickened 11 people across…
Continue Reading CDC declares outbreak linked to unpasteurized cheese overA hepatitis E-positive meat product appears to be behind most of the infections that occurred earlier this year in Finland.
The hepatitis E virus previously detected in sausages from a…
Continue Reading Meat products linked to the majority of hepatitis E cases in Finland