We have to wonder if the food industry and its regulators are in cahoots with one another to make recalls as confusing as possible in order to get the public to just stop paying attention.
In the last week, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has put out company press releases for Charlie’s Produce, T.M.
Alamosa, Colorado and Walkerton, Ontario have something in common now. Both cities have in their history the experience of seeing their public water contaminated with tragic consequences. In Alamosa the water is tainted with salmonella.
Eight years ago, it was E. coli O157: H7 in Walkerton’s water that eventually led to seven deaths and 2,500 residents
Recalls of Honduran cantaloupes continued today (3/26/08), and the latest company caught with salmonella-tainted cantaloupes usually imports fruits from Costa Rica.
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration put out two company press releases announcing voluntarily recalls of Central America-grown cantaloupes. First Central American Produce, Inc. of Pompano Beach, FL said it was recalling cantaloupes grown, packed
The Columbine is a colorful Rocky Mountain flower so favored by First Lady Mame Eisenhower that Ike adopted it as the name for "Air Force One" before anyone had a name for the President’s airplane.
More recently, Columbine High School in Jefferson County, west of Denver, was the site of the most tragic high school
Honduras is not happy with Uncle Sam. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) is telling people to toss cantaloupes from Agropecuaria Montelibano in Honduras.
At least 50 people in 16 states have become sick with salmonella from eating the Honduran cantaloupes. The FDA warning, however, has itself turned into an international incident.
Honduran President
Alamosa residents woke up this morning to learn they have about 72 hours before the town begins flushing a high amount of chlorine through its public water system.
When that begins, boiling water will no longer make it fit for cooking or drinking. The town has been on a bottled water order since last Wednesday.
This town of 9,000, including Colorado’s Adams State College, was declared to in a state of emergency today (3/21/08) by Gov. Bill Ritter due to the salmonella outbreak that may be related to the public water supply.
The emergency came as 139 Alamosa residents were said to be sick with salmonella. Seven were in the
Kowalke Family Sprouts Inc., which distributes through Farmer’s Markets, Whole Foods and Gelson’s Supermarkets, is recalling all its alfalfa sprout products because the seeds used to grow them were found to be contaminated with Salmonella.
No illnesses have yet been associated with the Kowalke sprouts. The California Department of Public Health announced the recall, which
Hew Hallock and Ruth Heide, reporters for the Valley Courier in Alamosa, CO are reporting that it will be "about a week" before state and federal laboratories will be able to tell the town if its water truly was tainted with salmonella.
A single water test, out of 20 samples taken, was positive for coliform
9NEWS in Denver tonight (3/19/08) is reporting on what happens when an isolated town on a high mountain plain learns its public water is no good due to a salmonella outbreak. There’s been a run on bottle water in Alamosa, Colorado that has its store shelves looking like those in Venezuela or Cuba.
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