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December 24, 2014
Caramel Apple Listeria Outbreak
CDC collaborated with public health officials in several states and with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate an outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections (listeriosis). Joint investigation efforts ...
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March 04, 2014
Roos Foods Cheese Listeria Outbreak
Cheese made by Roos Foods was recalled after a Listeria outbreak.Hispanic-style cheeses sold by Roos Foods were recalled after a Listeria outbreak was traced to the company's products in the early months of 2014. Cases of Listeria associated with the ...
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July 08, 2013
Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese Listeria Outbreak
Crave Brothers cheeses linked to Listeria outbreakCrave Brothers Farmstead Cheese recalled 3 cheeses for potential Listeria contamination after an outbreak was traced to the company's cheese products. The cheeses were sold at Kroger and Whole Foods ...
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November 12, 2012
New York Style Nova Lox Listeria Outbreak
Spence & Co. recalled its New York Style Nova Lox after a Listeria outbreak was traced to the salmon product.Spence & Co. recalled its New York Style Nova Lox Lot Number 9720704 due to potential Listeria contamination on November 9, 2012. The recall was initiated after a Listeria outbreak ...
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September 11, 2012
Forever Cheese Frescolina Ricotta Salata Listeria Outbreak
Ricotta Salata cheese is the source of a multi-state Listeria outbreak. 20 Listeria cases and 4 deaths have been attributed to the consumption of the ricotta cheese.Forever Cheese recalled its Ricotta Salata Frescolina brand cheese for Listeria monocytogenes contamination on September 11, 2012. The company initiated the recall after public health officials in 12 states determined ...
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July 12, 2012
Jean Perrin Edel de Cleron Cheese Listeria Outbreak
Jean Perrin Edel de Cleron cheese sold at the East Liberty Whole Foods in Pennsylvania recalled for Listeria contamination after 1 person becomes illThe Allegheny County Health Department and Whole Foods Market announced on July 12 that Jean Perrin Edel de Cleron cheese sold in the East Liberty Whole Foods Market store between ...
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September 09, 2011
Jensen Farms Rocky Ford Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak
Rocky Ford Cantaloupes were the source of a multi-state Listeria outbreak that sickened 146 people from 28 states. 33 deaths were linked to the Listeria outbreak.In September and October, 2011 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and public health agencies from multiple states identified at least 147 people from 28 states who had ...
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April 07, 2011
Veron Hog Head Cheese Listeria Outbreak
A Listeria outbreak has been linked to Louisiana-based Veron Foods Inc brand hog head cheese.In August, 2010 the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry announced a recall of 500,000 pounds of Veron brand ready to eat hog head cheese and sausage products due to ...
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November 05, 2010
SanGar Celery Listeria Outbreak
Celery produced by SanGar Fresh Cut Produce of Texas is the source of a Listeria outbreak.On October 20, 2010, the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) announced that it had determined chopped celery was the source of a Listeria food poisoning outbreak among Texas ...
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November 23, 2009
Whittier Farms Pasteurized Milk Listeria Outbreak, 2007
A 2007 Listeria outbreak was linked to milk produced by a Massachusetts dairyIn November 2007, a Massachusetts health officer reported that an 87-year-old man, John Powers, had tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes. In the outbreak investigation that followed, it was determined that ...
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October 17, 2007
Abbott Cheese Listeria Outbreak
21 cases of Listeria were linked to Vancouver, B.C.-based Abbott CheeseTwenty-one cases of Listeriosis were traced back to the consumption of camembert cheese sold or given away at the Granville Island Public Market in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1998. At ...
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October 15, 2012
Listeria-contaminated Cheese Leads to Premature Birth; Family Sues Distributor
Food Safety NewsBy News Desk | October 4, 2012A California couple has filed suit against the importer, distributor and retailer of the ricotta cheese that’s been linked to a multistate ...
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October 15, 2012
Two More Victims Counted in Listeria Ricotta Outbreak
Food Safety NewsBy Gretchen Goetz | October 12, 2012The total case count in the ongoing Listeria outbreak linked to imported Italian ricotta cheese has expanded from 18 to 20 and ...
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September 21, 2012
More Cheese Linked to Listeria Outbreak Recalled
Food Safety Newsby News Desk | Sep 18, 2012A Washington state-based cheese distributor is recalling 390 pounds of its ricotta cheese because the product is subject to a prior recall ...
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September 21, 2012
Three Deaths Counted in Listeria Outbreak Linked to Cheese
Food Safety Newsby Dan Flynn | Sep 12, 2012A new outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes has already killed three people, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said late ...
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July 18, 2012
Whittier Farms Pasteurized Milk Listeria Outbreak Lawsuit
The Massachusetts Department of Health initiated an outbreak investigation November, 2007 following the report of an 87-year-old man, John Powers, who had tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes. The investigation determined ...
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July 18, 2012
Victim Profile: The Loss of John Powers
John Powers was eighty-seven years old when he consumed milk contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (Listeria), a bacterium that causes foodborne illness, several times over the 2007 Thanksgiving holiday. The husband ...
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July 18, 2012
Lethal Listeria Outbreak Tied to Hog Head Cheese
Food Safety NewsBy Mary Rothschild | April 08, 2011In August, 2010, a half million pounds of sausages and hog head cheese were pulled off Louisiana grocery shelves in a recall ...
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July 18, 2012
Possible Listeria Contamination Prompts Cheese Recall in Pittsburgh
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is reporting that the Allegheny County Health Department and Whole Foods Market are recalling Jean Perrin Edel de Cleron cheese sold at the Whole Foods store in ...
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July 18, 2012
Man's Death May Be Linked to Last Year's Listeria Outbreak
Last fall's outbreak of Listeria traced to cantaloupes from Jensen Farms in Colorado grew into one of the deadliest in U.S. history, causing at least 146 illnesses and 32 deaths ...
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December 05, 2011
Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak Tapering Off
Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak Tapering OffFood Safety Newsby Gretchen Goetz | November 25, 2011The nationwide Listeria outbreak linked to Colorado-grown cantaloupes seems to finally be slowing, but is not over yet.The ...
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October 25, 2011
House Panel Requests Jensen Farms Outbreak Briefing
Food Safety NewsHelena BottemillerOctober 24, 2011Congress is taking a closer look at the catastrophic 26-state Listeria outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupes. The House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter ...
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October 25, 2011
The Role of the Third-Party Food Safety Auditor
Food Safety NewsRoy Costa, RS, MS, (MBA)October 24, 2011As the result of the release of the FDA environmental assessment at Jensen Farms, the roles of all food safety persons involved ...
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October 21, 2011
Jensen Farms Packing Operation Fatally Flawed
FDA Says It Found Multiple ProblemsFood Safety Newsby Dan Flynn | Oct 20, 2011The farm at the center of the nation's deadly Listeria outbreak did not follow established food safety ...
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October 21, 2011
Two More Deaths in Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak
Food Safety Newsby Dan Flynn | Oct 19, 2011In its 11th update on the multistate outbreak of listeriosis linked to contaminated cantaloupes from Jensen Farms in Colorado, the federal Centers ...
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