The FDA has published the following warning: Consumers worldwide should not use any ByHeart brand infant formula as all ByHeart products are included in this recall. As we know, as of November 26, 2025, a total of 37 infants with suspected or confirmed infant botulism and confirmed exposure to ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula (various […]
My mom, Diane Marler, passed away yesterday at 3:30 PM at the age of 87. Family and friends were with her. She was an amazing mom, but even more she was a most amazing woman. She was far ahead of her time in every way. Her strength, love and smarts will never be forgotten. She […]
Kapowsin Meats, a Graham, Washington establishment, recalling approximately 116,262 pounds of whole hogs that may be contaminated with Salmonella I 4, [5],12:i:-, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced days ago. Today the FSIS published where those hogs were sold. Here is the list:
Last week, Blue Bell announced the return of its products after a three month halt in production due to listeria contamination. While many Texans rejoiced on Twitter, not all consumers are rushing to get that familiar wooden spoon in hand. Reports over the past few months reveal that Blue Bell knew of the listeria contamination as far back as 2013 […]
The Indiana State Department of Health has confirmed E. coli O157:H7 infection in three individuals as part of an investigation into reports of diarrheal illness in three northern Indiana counties. The cases are among a total of six illnesses currently being investigated. Some, but not all, are linked to exposure at an unnamed daycare facility. […]
As was reported in the Seattle Times: “The onus falls back on the person who buys that pork product,” Dr. Scott Lindquist, state epidemiologist,, adding later: “No matter what we find and how we find it, the onus is on the consumer to prevent illness.” As I would have said if asked: “Consumers and their […]
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The Salmonella outbreak linked to pork products has grown to 134 cases in 10 counties around the state. Consumers are advised to cook pork thoroughly. The case count has continued to grow as state health officials work with Public Health — Seattle & King County along with other local, state, and federal partners on the […]
In the third such recall this year, Good Seed Inc. of Springfield, VA, is recalling all packages of soybean sprouts and mung bean sprouts because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Elaine Lidholm, director of communications for the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, told Food Safety News on Tuesday that no […]
Canadians ill too. As of August 10, 2015 (3pm EDT), CDC had been notified of 457 ill persons with confirmed Cyclospora infection from 29 states in 2015. Most of these persons—275 (60%) of 457—experienced onset of illness on or after May 1, 2015, and did not have a history of international travel within 2 weeks […]
Sentencing coming September 21. From the New Yorker online: Advocates for food safety recently got some startling news: Stewart Parnell, a former president of the Peanut Corporation of America (P.C.A.), may soon be sentenced to life in prison for his role in a salmonella outbreak that began in 2008. Parnell was found guilty last fall—after […]
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Audrey Dutton of the Boise Idaho Statesman reports that health inspectors who visited the Boise Co-op’s main location in the North End on July 24 found three critical violations. The violations, found in the deli and produce departments, came several weeks after a salmonella outbreak in which hundreds of reports were linked to the Boise […]
Mahina Mele Farms is recalling the following products after FDA testing found Salmonella in macadamia nuts. Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting […]
I’m having one of those weeks where I am never sure where I am or what time it is as I bounce from Seattle to Los Angeles to Minnesota and now on the plane to Dallas. I did have the honor of meeting up with a former client and present friend, Jeff Almer, late on […]
As of August 3, 2015 (4pm EDT), CDC had been notified of 384 ill persons with confirmed Cyclospora infection from 26 states in 2015. Most (226; 59%) ill persons experienced onset of illness on or after May 1, 2015 and did not report international travel prior to symptom onset. Clusters of illness linked to restaurants […]