Safety Food

In early July I wrote that I had bought Congress a t-shirt — one for every member. The boxes are here. Each shirt comes rolled and compressed inside a little plastic baby bottle small enough to hold in your palm. Unroll it […]

Quick bites from around the food safety arena There are now more than 20,000 cases of cyclosporiasis related to current outbreaks. The actual number is likely much higher. CDC is expected to update its patient counts next week. A source of the

A majority of American voters say they have little or no confidence in government oversight of food safety, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll conducted in the last full week of July, as the country’s largest recorded Cyclospora outbreak spread past twenty thousand

Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods of Richmond, VA, is recalling 22,880 pounds of baked spaghetti and chicken cobbler products that may be contaminated with foreign material, specifically metal slivers, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The baked spaghetti

Ohio released new numbers today — 4,013 cases in 80 counties, up from 2,576 a week ago. Add the states up, one by one, all fifty of them, and the floor under this outbreak this morning is 20,927 people. Michigan alone reports

If numbers out of Michigan are an indicator, a massive outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite may be slightly slowing. On July 30 the state reported 10,386 patients, up from 10,077 on July 29. That’s the smallest overnight increase

Health officials in the United Kingdom have reported an increase in Cyclospora infections in people returning from Mexico. Between April 30 and July 15, 67 cases of cyclosporiasis were recorded in the UK. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), Public

The food agency in the Philippines has revealed the results of stricter enforcement measures in the first half of this year. The country’s Food and Drug Administration faced challenges such as limited manpower, process inefficiencies, and backlogs driven by increasing

The FDA is investigating an outbreak of infections from E. coli O145:H28 that is related to imported, frozen berries sold at Publix stores. The implicated berries are sold under the Greenwise brand and were imported from Frutas y Hortalizas del

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for Curry Chicken Salad because of concerns that the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. A recall was not requested because the products are no