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 […]
Mars Foodservices recalls all lot numbers of Uncle Ben’s Infused Rice linked to recent illness in Texas, Illinois and North Dakota. The FDA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and state and local officials have been investigating a cluster of illnesses associated with Uncle Ben’s Infused Rice Mexican Flavor sold in 5- and 25-pound bags. […]
Rancho Feeding Corporation of Petaluma, California is recalling approximately 8,742,700 pounds of beef because it processed diseased and unsound animals and carried out these activities without the benefit or full benefit of federal inspection. Thus, the products are adulterated, because they are unsound, unwholesome or otherwise are unfit for human food and must be removed […]
Big Red Tomato Packers, LLC of Fort Pierce, FL is voluntarily issuing a limited recall of 790 – 20 and 25 lb. boxes of fresh tomatoes of lot 1106, because they may have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious infections in young children, frail or elderly […]
The Washington Post’s reporters, Kimberly Kindy and Brady Dennis jumped into FSIS’s “what’s an adulterant” thicket with their story posted yesterday “Salmonella outbreaks expose weakness in USDA oversight.” The article is worth the read. Regarding FSIS allowing the meat industry – chicken, beef, etc., to ship us all food tainted with Salmonella, what happened to […]
Lynne Terry reports that since December 2013, Oregon health officials have been looking into the source of Campylobacteriosis that has sickened five individuals in Oregon and Ohio. All cases report eating undercooked or raw chicken livers; most cases consumed chicken livers prepared as pâté. The cases in Ohio ate chicken liver pâté while visiting Oregon. The […]
Norovirus is again in the news – cruise ships, fancy restaurants and even a high school. Norovirus is a virus that is encased in a protein shell. It can live outside the human body for weeks and possibly months, and it is resistant to hand sanitizer and soap. It takes only a small number of […]
The product was distributed to certain Brookshire Food Stores, Krogers and Walmarts in Louisiana and Texas, as well as certain Super 1 Foods Stores in Louisiana and Market Latina and Super 1 Foods Stores in Texas. PFP Enterprises, a Fort Worth, Texas, establishment, is recalling approximately 15,865 pounds of beef products because they may be contaminated […]
After the Oregon Department of Agriculture confirmed three cases of Campylobacter related to the consumption of raw shucked oysters from the Coos Bay Oyster Company the company issued a recall notice for all of its shucked oysters — a recall that has then expanded to include all of its shellstock oysters as well. The oysters […]
Heston Blumenthal has shut his London restaurant Dinner, which has two Michelin stars, for a week after 24 guests fell ill with the vomiting bug norovirus, officials said on February 2nd. The closure comes five years after an outbreak of norovirus caused by contaminated shellfish forced Blumenthal to close The Fat Duck, his three-starred restaurant […]
Helen Carter, President of the Athens-Limestone Foundation for Aging, which hosted the Athens Bean Day Event linked to last years Salmonella outbreak, released a letter in which she disagrees with portions of the Alabama State Health Department Report. The report linked the event to dozens of Salmonella illnesses and hospitalizations. Carter said in the statement […]
Joel Ebert of the South Dakota Capital Journal got the headline “Listeria Hysteria.” Perhaps it would have been better – although a bit longer – “Raw Milk Farmer and South Dakota Department of Agriculture Caught between a Rock and a Hard Place.” Late last week the South Dakota Department of Agriculture (SDDA) announced that raw […]
Jean Cole of the News Courier reports today: “Health Dept.: Beans soaked in horse trough – Dozens taken ill after annual event.” Salmonella outbreak confirmed at annual Bean Day dinner hosted by the Foundation on Aging at the First Baptist Church Family Life Center in Athens, Alabama. A nine-page study issued by the Alabama Department […]
The oysters were distributed through wholesale dealers and retail stores in Oregon and California. On January 30, Coos Bay Oyster Company recalled Plastic Tubs (1/2 gallon, quart, pint, half – pint), Coos Bay Oyster Co., Raw/Ready – to – eat Shucked Oysters, with sell by dates from January 15 – February 17, 2014 because they […]
For those that have not walked the halls of Congress trying to get politicians to pay attention to real issues, you may not appreciate what seven of your fellow citizens did this last week. However, I have and I do – and, we all should appreciate what these people, my former clients and friends, did […]
The CDC reports a total of 17 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Stanley were reported from three states. Most of the ill people were reported from California (88%). The number of ill persons identified in each state was as follows: California (15), Nevada (1), and Wyoming (1). 20% of ill persons were […]