Working in consultation with the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Kellogg Company (NYSE:K) is implementing a voluntary recall of certain breakfast cereals due to an uncharacteristic off-flavor and smell coming from the liner in the package. Only products with the letters “KN” following the Better If Used Before Date are included in the recall. Products with a “KM”... [more]

South Gate Meat Co., a South Gate, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 35,000 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: 20-, 30- and 40-pound bulk packages of “SOUTH GATE MEAT CO. GROUND BEEF.” 30-,... [more]

Crown I Enterprises, Inc., a Bay Shore, N.Y., establishment, is recalling approximately 3,700 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: 24, 8-ounce burgers in 12-pound boxes of “W.B. STOCKYARD, KEEP REFRIGERATED, BURGER... [more]

Neblett, Beard & Arsenault is representing one of the seriously injured victims in the Clostridium perfringens foodborne illness outbreak at Central State Hospital in Pineville, LA. 40 people were sickened and 3 others died as a result of the foodborne illness outbreak, which was linked to the Central State Hospital cafeteria.  Louisiana’s Department and Health and Hospitals and the CDC investigated... [more]

This week, the recall of 15 million pounds of Campbell Soup’s Spaghetti O’s with Meatballs and ConAgra’s recall of Marie Callender’s frozen Cheesy Chicken and Rice meals served as examples of how quick recall action is essential in the fight against foodborne illness. The two separate recalls are on different sides of a very real recall issue that plagues our overwhelmed current system; the... [more]

CDC is collaborating with public health officials in many states, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella serotype Chester infections. Investigators are using DNA analysis of Salmonella bacteria obtained through diagnostic testing to identify cases of illness... [more]

The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals’ Office of Public Health announced that Clostridium perfringens is the foodborne pathogen at the center of the Central State Hospital outbreak in Pineville, LA. The outbreak caused 40 illnesses and 3 deaths. State health officials determined that Clostridium perfringens, the third most common type of foodborne illness, was spread by tainted chicken... [more]

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]

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]