The Food and Drug Administration has released an update on its work to develop a strategy to help prevent Cronobacter sakazakii illnesses related to powdered infant formula.
The agency is working on the strategy as
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The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a public warning regarding SPAM meat product produced by Hormel Foods Corp. Services LLC.
The implicated SPAM was under processed, which can lead to contamination.
There
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Additional daycare centers have been closed in Calgary, Canada, as the patient count in an outbreak of E. coli infections continues to increase. There are now 342 confirmed patients, mostly children younger than 5.
Alberta’s
Continue Reading More daycare centers closed in Canada as E. coli outbreak appears to be spreading
Golden Mushroom brand enoki mushrooms are under recall after government testing showed contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
The implicated mushrooms were distributed in Ontario and possibly nationwide in Canada, according to the recall notice from the
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At least 337 people, the vast majority of them children younger than 5, are now confirmed sick in the Canadian outbreak of E. coli infections linked to a central kitchen serving daycare centers in Calgary.
Continue Reading Canadian leaders vow to find source of E. coli outbreak that has sickened hundreds of children
At least 20 people are sick with Salmonella infections after eating food from a Chicago taqueria. Ten people have been hospitalized.
The Chicago Department of Public Health and the Illinois Department of Public Health are
Continue Reading Half of the Victims in the Salmonella outbreak hospitalized; Chicago taqueria closed
A senator and representative have introduced legislation that would give the FDA and CDC authority to enter and collect samples at feedlots during foodborne illness outbreaks.
Federal agencies currently cannot collect samples from concentrated animal
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The patient count in Canada’s daycare center E. Coli outbreak now stands at 310 lab-confirmed cases and public health officials are doubling down on their determination that a central kitchen serving the centers was the
Continue Reading E. coli outbreak involving daycare centers tops 300 patients; kitchen remains under scrutiny
Overnight, more patients were lab-confirmed as being infected with E. coli, bringing the total to 264 people infected in an outbreak linked to daycare centers in Calgary, Canada.
A total of 37 outbreak patients have
Continue Reading More than 260 patients in daycare outbreak; inspectors find roaches in kitchen
The patient count in an E. coli outbreak linked to daycare centers in Calgary, Canada, now stands at 231.
Alberta Health Services officials say 26 of the sick are currently hospitalized, 25 of them children
Continue Reading Patient count exceeds 225 in E. coli outbreak linked to daycare centers