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November 05, 2013 • Outbreaks
The Porch Restaurant E. coli Outbreak
The Porch, popular Pittsburgh restaurant, linked to E. coli outbreak …
November 05, 2013 • Outbreaks
McBee Dairy Farm Raw Milk E. coli Outbreak
At least 9 children fell ill with E. coli infections after drinking raw milk from McBee Dairy Farm …
November 03, 2013 • Hepatitis A
Thunder Bay Wendy’s Linked to Hepatitis A Scare
CDC reports, that the Thunder Bay District Health Unit is putting the public on alert as it investigates a case of hepatitis A in an employee of Wendy’s restaurant located on Red River Road. Anyone who consumed any food from this restaurant between Oct. 11 and 26 may have been …
October 31, 2013 • Outbreaks
October 31, 2013 • Outbreaks
October 30, 2013 • Outbreaks
William Marler offers Pittsburgh residents his Top 10 Tips for dining out during an E. coli outbreak
Attorney Bill Marler responds to reports that an E. coli outbreak has been linked to an Oakland neighborhood restaurant with his top 10 tips for dining out during an E. coli outbreak. …
October 30, 2013 • Salmonella
Foster Farms Salmonella Illnesses Hit 362
Today the CDC increased its total to 362 individuals infected with the outbreak strains of Salmonella Heidelberg reported from 21 states and Puerto Rico. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Alaska (1), Arkansas (1), Arizona (14), California (268), Colorado (7), Connecticut (1), Delaware (1), Florida (4), Idaho (3), Kentucky […] …
October 30, 2013 • Outbreaks
October 29, 2013 • Outbreaks
October 29, 2013 • Outbreaks
October 29, 2013 • Listeria
Reser’s Fine Foods Recalls chicken, ham and beef products due to Listeria monocytogenes
Reser’s Fine Foods, a Topeka, Kan. establishment, is expanding its recall of chicken, ham and beef products to include all products produced between Sept. 5 and Oct. 9, 2013. This is in addition to the 22,800 pounds of product recalled on Oct. 22, 2013. The products are being recalled due to possible contamination with Listeria […] …
October 29, 2013 • Listeria
Listeria monocytogenes – Tainted Salad Dressing Prompts Taylor Farms Recall
Taylor Farms, a Jessup, Md. establishment, is recalling approximately 5,084 pounds of broccoli salad kit products. The kits contain salad dressing in packets that are the subject of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recall due to concerns about possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety …
October 26, 2013 • Outbreaks
October 25, 2013 • Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A Alert in North Dakota
The Fargo Catholic Diocese’s new bishop, John Folda, may have exposed hundreds of church members to the hepatitis A virus in late September and early October. The state Health Department has issued an advisory of exposure for anyone who was served communion at services attended by Bishop John Folda at …
October 24, 2013 • Outbreaks
October 23, 2013 • Listeria
More Reser’s Fine Foods Recalled Due to Listeria
Reser’s Fine Foods of Beaverton, Oregon is recalling approximately 109,000 cases of refrigerated ready-to-eat products because it may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria is an organism which can cause serious and sometime fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and individuals with weakened immune systems. Healthy people …
October 23, 2013 • Listeria
Reser’s Fine Foods Issues Listeria Recall
Reser’s Fine Foods has recalled 12 products due to a possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. The company announced that it is recalling the products, which are regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), that bear the establishment number “EST. 13520” or “P-13520” as part of …
October 23, 2013 • Outbreaks
October 20, 2013 • Listeria
Garden Fresh Foods Expands Ready to Eat Ham and Chicken Due to Listeria
Garden Fresh Foods, a Milwaukee, WI. establishment, is recalling approximately 6,694 additional pounds of ready-to-eat chicken and ham products due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The company is recalling these products in addition to the 19,05 …
October 19, 2013 • Salmonella
More Ill from Foster Farms Salmonella Chicken
As of October 17, 2013, a total of 338 persons infected with seven outbreak strains of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 20 states and Puerto Rico. 40% of ill persons have been hospitalized, and no deaths have been reported. Most ill persons (75%) have been reported from California. Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback investigations conducted […] …
October 18, 2013 • Outbreaks
New Hawaii Sea Restaurant Hepatitis A Outbreak (2013)
Marler Clark represents people who were exposed to the hepatitis A virus at the New Hawaii Sea Restaurant in the Bronx and either fell ill with hepatitis A or were required to receive injections to prevent infection. Exposure to hepatitis A occurred at New Hawaii Sea Restaurant between September …
October 18, 2013 • Outbreaks
Burma Superstar E. coli Outbreak - California (2013)
Between Friday, August 23 and Monday, August 26, 2013, the San Francisco Department of Public Health Communicable Disease Control Unit (SFDPH CDCU) received eight reports of laboratory-confirmed Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157 infection in unrelated San Francisco residents. This number of reports represented a marked increase over the background incidence …
October 13, 2013 • Salmonella
Costco Recalls Salmonella Chicken
Costco’s El Camino Real store in South San Francisco, Calif., is recalling 9,043 units (approximately 39,755 lbs.) of rotisserie chicken products that may be contaminated with a strain of Salmonella Heidelberg, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products subject to recall are …
October 11, 2013 • Salmonella
Kudos to Costco and Kroger for Recalling Chicken that Foster Farms Won’t
NBC reports that nearly 40,000 pounds of rotisserie chicken products are being recalled by a Costco in South San Francisco, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Friday. Officials said the chicken products may be contaminated with a strain of Salmonella Heidelberg linked to Foster Farms …
October 11, 2013 • Salmonella
Costco, Safeway, FoodSource Linked to Foster Farms Salmonella Chicken
CBC Sacramento has learned that Safeway, FoodSource and Costco all had chicken carrying a different name or an additional name, but with lot numbers associated with the outbreak linked to Foster Farms. At Safeway, it was under Eating Right and O Organics, FoodSource had ValuBest and Costco had the Kirkland …
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