Asks Congress to Give USDA Recall Authority
Yonkers, N.Y.—Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, today called on the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to drastically tighten its present Salmonella standard, which allows almost half the samples tested at a ground turkey plant to be contaminated with this disease-causing bug. Consumers Union also called
“Food & Water Watch is pleased that the USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Service has finally updated the performance standards for salmonella in young chicken and turkey establishments, but there is more the agency should do to strengthen this program. We are also encouraged that FSIS has established a new performance standard for campylobacter in broiler
According to Oklahoma press reports, State health officials are investigating a salmonella death in Ardmore, Oklahoma. 72-year-old Dewey Teeg died recently of salmonella poisoning, according to the reports. Officials would not confirm where Teeg was infected, but say its an ongoing investigation.
Thanks to Hanah Boen of the Abilene Texas News, for this great warning on handling and cooking Rattlesnake:
Rattlesnake are commonly feared when they’re alive and rattling, but is there anything to fear when they’re served on a plate with a side of gravy?
Teresa Shisk-Saling, a registered veterinary technician and a herpetologist in
From November 2 through November 29 and on December 20, 2010, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reviewed records of your shell egg production operation. The review was initiated after 13 FDA environmental samples from four of your egg layer sites were confirmed positive for Salmonella Enteritidis (SE). We found that you have serious deviations
Salmonella bacteria can be found on virtually all dairies, regardless of region. Whether it starts as an undetected presence or causes a major disease outbreak depends greatly upon the exposure level of Salmonella organisms to animals.
Salmonella infections can cause dairy cattle of all ages to become severely ill. In young calves, it typically shows
A series of Food and Drug Administration inspections at the nation’s largest egg farms has found at least one operation contaminated with salmonella.
The FDA is inspecting the country’s 600 largest egg farms in the wake of a salmonella outbreak in eggs last summer that sickened at least 1,900 people. The agency said Tuesday it
While the recent salmonella outbreak caused by shell eggs has dominated the news in recent weeks, there are smaller incidents of food poisoning being reported, one of which is an outbreak of salmonella thought to be linked to Don Pericos, a Mexican restaurant in Bakersfield, California.
There have been at least 4 illnesses related to
In July 2010, CDC identified a nationwide sustained increase in the number of Salmonella Enteritidis isolates with PFGE pattern JEGX01.0004 uploaded to PulseNet, the national subtyping network made up of state and local public health laboratories and federal food regulatory laboratories that performs molecular surveillance of foodborne infections. This increase began in May 2010 and
Thanks to Dr. Doug Powell and Dr. Ben Chapman for this great tool:
