Highlighting the collaborative efforts of food safety agencies that illustrate the success of integration activities in food protection.
Satur Farms, 3705 Alvah’s Lane, Cutchogue, NY 11935 is voluntarily recalling Baby Spinach and Mesclun with the specific lot numbers listed below because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems. […]
California officials have closed some commercial shellfish farming areas while they investigate an outbreak of norovirus that has sickened at least 44 people who reported eating raw oysters from Hog Island Oysters. Read more…
A New York resident sickened with Brucellosis by raw milk from Pennsylvania has state agricultural officials warning residents in a three-state region about the threat. Importing unpasteurized, raw milk from state to state is a violation of federal law. Read more…
In response to Hurricane Michael, the Georgia Department of Agriculture (GDA) Food Safety Division broadly leveraged new Geographic Information System (GIS) technology for the first time to conduct emergency assessments of food facilities across the State of Georgia. The technology helped inspectors conduct assessments more accurately and efficiently, with results shared in real-time. Read more….
Green Cedar, a company based in Michigan, is recalling an undisclosed volume of its Ackawi cheese because state and federal inspectors found Listeria contamination.Because of the long shelf life of the cheese — which has a sell-by date of March 26, 2019 — there is concern that consumers may have the recalled cheese in their […]
Thallium, a poison made famous by mystery writer Agatha Christie, is not really something you’d want in your grilled chicken.But the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services has tested retail packages of Nature Raised Farms Organic Gluten Free Grilled Chicken Strips produced by Suzanna’s Kitchen Inc. and found concentrations of thallium in the product. […]
Pennsylvania officials say by week’s end they should have lab results from samples of raw milk from Pot ‘O Gold Dairy Specialties. The unpasteurized milk is linked to a Salmonella outbreak in the state.State health officials warned the public on Oct. 12 to discard the implicated milk, which was sold between Sept. 10 and Oct. […]
Kansas health officials say tomatoes served at a church dinner tested positive for Salmonella Newport and are the likely the cause of dozens of reported illnesses.At least 14 of the people who attended the Indian Taco Dinner at Highland (KS) United Methodist Presbyterian Church have confirmed Salmonella infections, according to the Kansas Department of Health […]
Anyone who has purchased Pure Missouri Ozark Country Sorghum should immediately throw the product out, according to a public health warning issued Tuesday by the Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH), the Johnson County Public Health Department, and the Iowa Department of Inspections and Appeals (DIA). Read more…
Human transmission of norovirus is likely what made dozens, possibly hundreds, of people in Transylvania County, NC, sick in an outbreak among customers of a McDonald’s restaurant. Read more…