Fresh Express has voluntarily recalled certain romaine lettuce salad products with expired use-by-dates of July 8th to 12th and an S in the Product Code due to possible E. coli 0157:H7 contamination. Other Fresh Express salad products are not included in the recall. While no illnesses have been reported in connection with the recall, the precautionary recall action is being conducted as a result of... [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]

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]

Beltex Corporation, a Fort Worth, Texas, establishment, is recalling approximately 135,500 pounds of beef trim 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 following products are subject to recall: Various pound boxes of “FRONTIER MEATS BEEF TRACE TRIM” Various pound boxes... [more]

Mincing Overseas Spice Company of Dayton, New Jersey announced that it is recalling black pepper Lots 3258 and 3309 because of possible contamination 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 systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea... [more]

CDC Map of E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak CDC is collaborating with public health officials in several states and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to investigate a multistate outbreak of human infections due to Escherichia coli O157:H7 (E. coli 0157:H7). Monday, January 4, 2010, 21 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 had been... [more]

In mid December of last year, Wllimatte Filbert Growers of Oregon issued a massive recall of Hazelnuts after nut samples tested positive for Salmonella. Soon after the first recall, a domino effect of recalls flooded the FDA’s food safety website. What initially looked like a simple recall involving two states (Oregon and California) quickly emerged as a massive recall involving every line of distribution... [more]

Twenty-one people in 16 states have been infected in recent days with E. coli O157:H7 bacteria, after consuming mechanically tenderized beef in restaurants supplied by National Steak and Poultry, an Oklahoma meat company, according to federal investigators. The outbreak spurred National Steak and Poultry to voluntarily recall 248,000 pounds of beef Dec. 24. The products, which range from steaks to... [more]

National Steak and Poultry, an Owasso, Okla., establishment, is recalling approximately 248,000 pounds of 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. FSIS became aware of the problem during the course of an investigation of a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses. Working with the Centers... [more]

Today the FSIS issued a recall notice regarding beef brisket that was potentially contaminated with Listeria. The packages of precooked brisket were made for sale in commissaries at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico and Tinker and Altus Air Force Bases in Oklahoma. As of now, the FSIS has no reported Listeria illnesses linked to the beef product. But it got me thinking about how a simple food pathogen... [more]