Caldwell Fresh Foods, of Maywood, CA, is voluntarily recalling all alfalfa sprouts manufactured under the Caldwell Fresh Foods, Nature’s Choice, and California Exotics brands, because the alfalfa sprouts may be contaminated with Salmonella. Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune... [more]

Amish Wedding Foods, Inc. is recalling all lots of the following products: Pumpkin Butter 9 oz. UPC code# 0 49646 50014 7 Pumpkin Butter 16 & 18 oz. UPC code# 0 49646 65549 6 Sweet Potato Butter 16 & 18 oz. UPC code# 0 49646 65550 2 These products were sold under the following brands: Amish Wedding Foods, Finney’s Bulk Foods, Our Maker’s Acres, Uncle Charlies Products, Grandpa’s... [more]

Normally when people think foodborne illness, they think it is actually associated with food; however, water can serve as a host for parasitic, and bacterial foodborne illness organisms.  The Salt Lake Tribune recently posted a boil order for Saratoga Springs, Utah in an article by David Meyers entitled “Saratoga Springs Boil Order Still in Effect.” Utah County has recently seen seven cases of... [more]

Montclair Meat Co., Inc., a Montclair, Calif., establishment is recalling approximately 53,000 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products subject to recall include: Various pound packages of “MONTCLAIR MEAT CO. GROUND BEEF” Various pound... [more]

Sampco, Inc., a Chicago, Ill. establishment, is recalling approximately 87,000 pounds of beef products that may contain the animal drug Ivermectin, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today. Ivermectin is a broad-spectrum antiparasitic and is used as a de-worming agent in live animals. The following products are subject to recall 12 oz. cans of “Libby’s... [more]

A string of listeriosis cases has plagued certain Texas counties between January and May of 2010. According to My San Antonio news from May 13, 2010, “State and local health officials are investigating a cluster of food-borne infections that sickened seven people in three Texas counties this year, killing two of them. The patients — five from Bexar County and one each from Travis and Hidalgo counties... [more]

Local and state public health officials in Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Tennessee are investigating human illnesses caused by Escherichia coli (E. coli) O145. CDC is supporting these investigations and facilitating regular communication and information sharing between the states and with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As of May 11, 2010, a total of 23 confirmed and 7 probable cases related... [more]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its state health partners have confirmed that the strain of E. coli O145 detected by the New York State Public Health Laboratory, Wadsworth Center, in Albany, in an unopened bag of shredded romaine lettuce distributed by Freshway Foods, matches the outbreak strain of E. coli O145. This finding comes... [more]

Louisiana’s state health secretary, Alan Levine, announced that norovirus is believed to be the pathogen at the center of a food poisoning outbreak that left 40 sickened and 3 dead at the Central Start Hospital in Pineville, LA. Health officials felt confident that the norovirus was at the center of the outbreak, but explained that further testing is necessary to determine why 3 victims died,... [more]

Over the weekend, 40 residents and employees of a Pineville, Louisiana state hospital presented with gastrointestinal symptoms after eating in the facility’s cafeteria. Some of the victim’s symptoms were so severe that hospitalizations were required, and three patients died shortly after being sickened. State health officials and investigators publicly stated that foodborne illness was a suspect... [more]