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Protecting families from contaminated food and water
January 5, 2019
A Santa Maria, California farm that has been linked to the romaine lettuce warning from the CDC on the eve of Thanksgiving has issued a voluntary recall for several other produce items. Red lettuce, green lettuce, and cauliflower items produced… read more
First Recall of 2019; Listeria Tainted Sunflower Butter
January 2, 2019
2019 came in with its first recall on the 2nd day although the report dates back to December 18, 2018. We kicked it off with the Listeria Tainted Sunflower Butter recall. Oskri Organics Corporation of Lake Mills, WI is recalling… read more
Did You Know September was a Busy Month for FDA?
January 2, 2019
The FDA was pretty busy during the month of September, issuing 7 Warning Letters. What is the FDA you might ask? The acronym FDA stands for United States Food and Drug Administration. As the name suggests, they regulate Foods and… read more
December 31, 2018
There has been a sharp increase in the number of Salmonella cases in San Diego county. Through mid-December, the county observed 730 verified Salmonella cases. Public Health officials are saying that cases related to this bacteria are at a 25-year… read more
More Illnesses in JBS Ground Beef Outbreak
December 16, 2018
Eighty-seven more people from 16 states have been sickened by the ongoing Salmonella JBS ground beef outbreak linked to ground beef from JBS Tolleson, according to CDC. 39 of these illnesses are from California, which brings the case count from… read more
It’s Everywhere!! A Spotlight on the 2018 Salmonella Outbreaks
December 15, 2018
What Salmonellosis? That is a funny sounding word to describe a pretty nasty illness caused by a really bad germ. Whether obvious or not, you have certainly come in contact with that big bad germ at some point. Salmonella is in… read more
Goat Meat – The Most Popular Protein in the World?
December 7, 2018
What’s the most popular animal worldwide for eating? It isn’t the cows, whose flatulent methane output makes them the second major greenhouse-gas producing species in the world after humans. It isn’t pigs, who are smarter than you think and have… read more
How Does Salmonella Beef Contamination Happen?
November 29, 2018
Month have passed since since the initial reports on Cargill Meat resulted in a recall of 132,000 pounds of deadly ground beef thoroughly contaminated with E. coli bacteria, but while we might have hoped to be safe from similar food… read more
November 28, 2018
It seems like every time you open the Internet there is another recall or outbreak. Beef, turkey, romaine lettuce. Now Tahini. The latest reports from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from November 28, 2018 indicate that 5… read more
California – The Epicenter and Hardest Hit in the Ecoli Romaine Outbreak?
November 24, 2018
The ecoli romaine outbreak is not linked to the one we had in the Spring of this year. Which means, Yuma, Arizona is likely not on the hook. However, the other growing locale for romaine lettuce in the United States… read more