The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) all have tremendous public relations programs to communicate with the public.
However, once or twice a year, the federal government’s three top food safety agencies appear more as
The nationwide salmonella outbreak may have killed a person in Minnesota. A health department spokesman in Minnesota says an elderly woman had the infection when she died, but it’s not clear that salmonella was the cause.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the outbreak has struck 42 states and made nearly 400
The CDC reports that an outbreak of Salmonella food poisoning has made 388 people sick across 42 states, sending 18 percent of them to the hospital, U.S. health officials said on Wednesday. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is trying to trace the source of the outbreak, which began in September. The
The Ohio Department of Health says it is investigating the multi-state Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak.
Ohio health officials say they are participating in a nationwide investigation to try to identify the contaminated food vehicle for an outbreak of salmonellosis that has been going on since last October.
Ohio ranks second in the nation for number of
Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection is not waiting for someone to get sick with salmonella after finding sprouts contaminated with the bacteria.
Instead, Wisconsin is recalling packaged sprouts from Sunrise Farms Inc. of Neenah. The grower was ordered to tell its customers to remove the alfalfa sprouts, Spicy Sprouts, Crunchy Sprouts