food-poisoning-blog

After days of chlorine being pumped through the salmonella-contaminated Alamosa Colorado water supply, some residents are finally being allowed to take brief showers. Thus far, 315 people have become ill, with 85 confirmed cases, and 12 people hospitalized. The source of the contamination is still unknown.
Meanwhile, schools have been closed, restaurants shut down, and residents […]

Minnesota public health officials are linking a most recent salmonella outbreak to raw, frozen, breaded and pre-browned, stuffed chicken entrees.
Milford Valley Farms Chicken Cordon Bleu is the product in question after two more cases of salmonellosis were recently identified. The chicken entrée has a stamped code of C8021 and is sold in numerous grocery store […]

Another distributor of fresh cantaloupe is recalling product after two other companies did so when it found salmonella contaminating the melon.
Simply Fresh Fruit of Los Angeles is recalling fresh cut fruit products may contain tainted cantaloupe. Simply Fresh Fruit was advised to recall any cantaloupe products by its supplier, Tropifresh Inc., which imports the fruit […]

As part of the bigger salmonella cantaloupe recall, T.M. Kovacevich International and Chiquita Brands International are both recalling whole cantaloupes purchased from Agropecuaria Montelibano, a Honduran grower and packer responsible for a salmonella outbreak across North America.
T.M. Kovacevich International’s recalled cantaloupes were distributed to wholesalers and processors in Georgia, Florida, Massachusetts and New Jersey, […]

Tropifresh Inc. is recalling whole cantaloupes sold under the brand name of Agrolibano’s Produce, marked with a “Mike’s Melons” sticker, due to the FDA warning of salmonella risk associated with cantaloupes from Honduran grower and packer Agropecuaria Montelibano. Thus far, at least 50 people in the US, as well as several in Canada, have been […]

Flushing of the Alamosa, Colo., public water supply has commenced, and residents of city can only flush their toilets.
Nearly every aspect of normal life has been interrupted because of a salmonella outbreak in the public water supply. At least 250 people have been sickened by the outbreak discovered last week.
Schools and restaurants are closed and […]

The food industry is lobbying the Agriculture Department to institute a policy that won’t identify where tainted meat is sold.
Associated Press reports only in cases where serious health risks are present will the retailers where contaminated meats are sold be identified. This is clearly a slap in the face to transparency of food safety concerns.
At […]

A top exec at Castleberry’s Food Co., whose chili sauce caused botulism last July, says the plant is expected to reopen this week. The FDA shut down the 15th Street plant on March 10 of this year because inspectors found deviations in how some of the equipment was being operated.
“We continue to work closely with […]

The number of salmonella cases from people eating tainted cantaloupe is on the rise, namely in the state of Washington, according to a report on eCanadaNow.com.
People in 16 states have been affected by the contaminated melon which was picked by a Honduran company. At least 50 people have contracted salmonella poisoning thus far from eating […]

The contaminated water supply in Alamosa, Colorado, is being pumped full of chlorine to try to rid residents’ tap water of the salmonella that’s already sickened approximately 250. State health officials had confirmed 72 as of this afternoon, with the total number of cases at 248. The Colorado heath department, as of yesterday, confirmed nine […]