CDC is collaborating with public health officials in multiple states, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA/FSIS) to investigate two multistate outbreaks of Salmonella infections, each involving a different Salmonella serotype: Hartford and Baildon. Both of these Salmonella serotypes are rare, and ill persons... [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]

Consumers advised to avoid oysters harvested from San Antonio Bay The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers to avoid eating oysters harvested from the San Antonio Bay on or after Nov. 16 due to reports of norovirus-associated illnesses in some people who had consumed oysters harvested from this area, which is located on the Gulf of Texas. The FDA, along with the Centers for Disease... [more]

A dozen people have recently been hospitalized after coming down with severe food poisoning symptoms according to the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC). Health Department Officials say the victims all became ill after eating at a barbeque fundraiser. A hunting club sold the meal of barbeque pork, coleslaw, sweet potatoes and rolls at the Cedar Grove Baptist Church... [more]

Kilwin’s Quality Confections, Inc. of Petoskey, MI, is recalling all of our 7 ounce packages of chocolate-covered peanuts, and bulk chocolate-covered peanuts, sold in our retail stores, which were sold prior to April 1, 2009, because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly... [more]

The JBS Swift E. coli O157:H7 beef recall has essentially touched every state in the union. According to the retail list provided by the FSIS, if your state has a Sam’s Club, you have had JBS Swift Recalled meat sold in your state. Costco, Kroger’s, BiLo and numerous other grocery chains have distributed meats all over the US from Florida to Alaska. But it hasn’t just affected big retailers;... [more]

South Carolina Firm Recalls Fresh Beef Trim Products Due to Possible E. coli O157:H7 Contamination Recall Release CLASS I RECALL FSIS-RC-030-2009 HEALTH RISK: HIGH WASHINGTON, June 8, 2009 – Snow Creek Meat Processing, a Seneca, S.C., establishment is recalling approximately 75 pounds of fresh beef trim products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s... [more]