The Athens Alabama News Courier reported Sunday on the Alabama Department of Public Health Department’s Final Report on last fall’s Salmonella senftenberg linked to a church fundraiser. The Bean Day Athens-Limestone Foundation ...
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At the end of 2013, Consumer Reports made national headlines by reporting that 97 percent of retail chicken breasts were contaminated with some form of gut bacteria. Granted, not all of those bacteria are likely to make consumers sick, but ...
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In the first month of 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued 11 warning letters to food manufacturers and processors. The first two warning letters of the year were delivered to a seafood processing facility in Hawaii and a ...
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PMI Nutrition,LLC,of Arden Hills,MN,has initiated a voluntary recall of its 20-lb.bags of Red Flannel?Cat Formula cat food for possible Salmonella contamination,according to a U.S.Food and Drug Administration announcement issued ...
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Two Oregonians have tested positive for a rare strain of Salmonella known as Salmonella overschie, according to the Oregon Health Authority Public Health Division. The first patient was a 28-year-old Coos County woman who fell ill in ...
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Battelle's unique software modeling program, PRIA, will soon be put to use in Australia to help manage the risk of salmonella and campylobacter outbreaks in poultry. Baiada Poultry is one of Australia's largest poultry companies, ...
Salmonella contamination of shell eggs and subsequent recalls in 2010 resulted in economic losses to the egg industry and increased consumer concerns about the safety of eggs. In addition, HACCP regulations for egg processing are probable ...
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When Louis Pasteur developed and patented the process of pasteurization in the 1860s, it had nothing to do with milk. He was more concerned with keeping beer from spoiling. But, by the turn of the century, this method of preservation had ...
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday afternoon that, as of Jan. 15, a total of 430 persons infected with seven outbreak strains of Salmonella Heidelberg have been reported from 23 states and Puerto Rico. ...
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Like "Turn out the lights" and "Don't slam the door," being told to "Wash your hands" is one of those universal instructions children hear every day. But it's more than that. Hand washing has been shown to be one of the most effective ...
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The Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak at a Tennessee prison that has sent two of the nine infected inmates to the hospital is a subject of a new report pointing to a larger investigation from the federal Centers for Disease Control and ...
The Healthy People 2020 initiative recently held a public webinar to update stakeholders on progress toward food safety objectives. Addressing the goals to reduce infections from pathogens commonly transmitted through food, Roberta ...
Tyson Foods, Inc. a Sedalia, Mo., establishment, is recalling approximately 33,840 pounds of mechanically separated chicken products that may be contaminated with a Salmonella Heidelberg strain, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food ...
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On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture suspended poultry processing at a Foster Farms plant in Livingston, CA, due to an infestation of cockroaches. Since then, some people have expressed confusion about why the agency closed the ...
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Foster Farms is voluntarily halting operations at its troubled plant in Livingston, CA, according to a news release from the company. Operations at the plant were originally shut down by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Jan. 8 for a ...
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