February 28th, 2008 amy
Four-bean salads sold under the brand names of Walker’s Food Products Co. and Kay’s Gourmet are being recalled for botulism risk. 16-ounce, 5-pound and 10-pound containers of these four-bean salads with expiration dates of Dec. 23, 2007 through April 5, 2008 could be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum. The salads were reportedly distributed to stores in […]
February 28th, 2008 laurie
Eight people contracted E. coli poisoning at a church outreach dinner Saturday in Southern Alabama, according to the Web site, BaldwinCountyNow.com.
About 300 people attended the Eastern Shore Baptist Church 10th Annual Beast Feast and Wild Game Supper over the weekend. Though only eight cases of E. coli have been confirmed, about 20 people showed symptoms […]
February 28th, 2008 joshua
Wastewater from a dairy farm may have led to a 2006 E. coli outbreak, linked to iceberg lettuce used in food sold at Taco John’s stores in Iowa and Minnesota.
The 2006 outbreak sickened 80 people, according to a report from the Food and Drug Administration and the California Department of Health. The lettuce was linked […]
February 27th, 2008 amy
The Hallmark meat recall now has some packaged food companies scrambling to destroy packaged food products, while others hold onto their patties in hope that regulators will allow the meat to be sold. The Wall Street Journal has been all over the action, reporting on who’s destroying what and who’s holding back.
General Mills has recalled […]
February 27th, 2008 laurie
Much of the outrage over the nation’s largest beef recall came at the sight of the Humane Society video exposing cattle torture at Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. But that wasn’t the reason the beef was recalled.
Instead, the beef was recalled because meat from “downer cattle” was slaughtered. Cows that cannot stand, or show paralysis, are […]
February 25th, 2008 joshua
The nation’s largest beef recall may just be the start of a trend in the industry, the Associated Press recently reported. Through its own investigation, more beef could be tainted, and the future supply of U.S. beef could be in jeopardy due to a staggering lack of inspectors.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is operating at […]
February 22nd, 2008 laurie
The meat industry is pressing the USDA to scale back the largest meat recall in U.S. history.
The USDA is still trying to find about 15 million of the 143 million-pound meat recall traced to the product of Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co., of Chino, Calif. Undercover video found workers there resorting to torturous tactics to get […]
February 22nd, 2008 joshua
An E. coli outbreak in Floyd County, Indiana last year has been linked back to a single child.
That one child came in contact with the bacteria and it eventually sickened at least 15 people. The child probably got the bacteria after contacting a cow or goat, according to a soon-to-be-released report from the Indiana State […]
February 21st, 2008 joshua
A Connecticut Representative wants the U.S. Department of Agriculture to be stripped of its responsibility to inspect the nation’s food supply and ensure food safety.
The measure comes in the wake of the nation’s largest meat recall late last week after it was discovered that a Chino, Calif., meat packer was abusing cattle in an attempt […]
February 19th, 2008 joshua
Although a USDA inspector is at each of the 900 beef slaughterhouses in the United States, it’s relatively easy to get “downer cattle” into the food chain, according to fallout from the largest beef recall in the nation’s history.
At the Hallmark/Westland meat packing company, the inspector showed up at the farm at 6:30 a.m. and […]
