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CDC: Ongoing Salmonella Outbreak Sickens 1017 People, Peppers Suspected
Salmonella: 1,017 Sick; Peppers Suspected CDC: High-Risk People Shouldn't Eat Raw Jalapeno Peppers or Serrano Peppers By Miranda Hitti http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/food-poisoning/news/20080709/salmonella-sickens-more-than-1000?ecd=wnl_nal_070908&spon=912345_0 WebMD Health News Reviewed by Louise Chang, MDJuly 9, 2008 -- The CDC today warned that people at high risk of severe cases of salmonella infection -- infants, the elderly, and people with weak immune systems -- should not eat raw jalapeno peppers or raw serrano peppers because of the ongoing salmonella outbreak. "Other persons who want to reduce their risk of salmonella infection can take similar precautions," Robert Tauxe, MD, MPH, deputy director of the FDA's Division of Foodborne, Bacterial, and Mycotic Diseases, said today at a news conference. That doesn't mean that tomatoes are off the hook.Salmonella Tomato Warning Expanded: Outbreak in Certain Raw, Red Tomatoes Sickens At Least 145 People in 16 States
From WebMd's Food Poisoning Health Center: http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/food-poisoning/news/20080609/salmonella-tomato-warning-expanded?ecd=wnl_nal_060908 Salmonella Tomato Warning Expanded Salmonella Outbreak in Certain Raw, Red Tomatoes Sickens At Least 145 People in 16 States By Miranda Hitti WebMD Health NewsReviewed by Louise Chang, MDJune 9, 2008 -- The FDA has broadened its list of tomatoes to avoid because of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least 145 people in 16 states since the middle of April. The FDA and CDC first warned last week of dozens of people in nine states who had gotten sick after eating certain types of raw, red tomatoes. Salmonella bacteria can cause diarrhea (which may be bloody), fever, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain.Salmonella outbreak strikes 21, prompts beef recall
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – At least 21 people in Colorado and 10 other U.S. states have been sickened by a salmonella outbreak that prompted the recall of more than 800,000 pounds of ground beef, federal and state officials said on Friday. Raw hamburger associated with known illnesses in Colorado was traced to Beef Packers Inc.FDA Issue definitive statement on Peanut Butter Salmonella - Do not eat Peanut Corporation of America (PCA)
FDA Issue definitive statement on Peanut Butter Salmonella - Do not eat Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) Based on this information, and on the current state of the investigation, the FDA recommends that consumers avoid eating products that have been recalled and discard them. Because identification of products subject to recall is continuing, the FDA urges consumers to postpone eating commercially- prepared or manufactured peanut butter-containing products and institutionally-served peanut butter until further information becomes available about which products may be affected. Efforts to specifically identify those products are ongoing.Nation Waits for FDA Overhaul
Agency is so understaffed, it inspects less than 1 percent of imported food Tom Costello Published April 26, 2009 by NBC News The Food and Drug Administration may be the only federal agency that both political parties agree is in desperate need of an overhaul. The FDA is so understaffed it inspects less than 1 percent of imported food.President Barack Obama is promising action, though progress has been slow in the first 100 days. His choice to head the FDA - Dr.PEANUT BUTTER RECALLED OVER SALMONELLA
Heads up to all the pb lovers http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070215/ap_on_he_me/peanut_butter_salmonella ~~~ OMAHA, Neb. - ConAgra Foods Inc. told consumers to discard certain jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter after the spread was linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened almost 300 people nationwide.Salmonella Tomato Warning Updated
Update Tomato Outbreak - Major expansion of area! June 10, 2008 11:00 PM: The Food and Drug Administration has expanded its warning to consumers nationwide that a salmonellosis outbreak has been linked to consumption of certain raw, red tomatoes. At this time, FDA is advising consumers to limit their consumption of tomatoes to the following types of tomatoes.New Jersey: Food chains pull tomatoes after salmonella scare, FDA warning
Food chains pull tomatoes after salmonella scare, FDA warning By BEN LEACH Staff Writer, 609-272-7261 Published: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 From the Press of Atlantic City: http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/186/story/179074.html Wawa, McDonald's and other food and restaurant chains will not sell food products containing certain varieties of tomatoes until an outbreak of salmonella affecting the country is contained. The food chains are taking precautions after the FDA issued a warning Saturday advising people to avoid eating certain types of tomatoes unless they come from states or other parts of the world not associated with the outbreak. Raw red Roma, raw plum and raw red round tomatoes were implicated in the outbreak, which has affected 145 people in the United States and resulted in 23 hospitalizations since mid-April, according to the federal Food and Drug Administration.A new effort to help shoppers stay healthy: Country of Origin Labeling
A new effort to help shoppers stay healthy http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/113/story/277025.html Published: Monday, October 06, 2008 Press and wire reports WASHINGTON - No more wondering where your hamburger came from, or where your lettuce and tomatoes were grown: Shoppers can now see lots more foods labeled with the country of origin. It's a law years in the making but timely, as China's milk scandal and the recent salmonella-tainted Mexican peppers prompt growing concern over the safety of imported foods. Still, hold the import-bashing: Numerous outbreaks in recent years have come from U.S.-produced foods, like spinach grown in California.The Return of a Lost Jersey Tomato
The Return of a Lost Jersey Tomato By JULIA MOSKIN, NY Times Published: July 23, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/23/dining/23toma.html?th&emc=th WHEN heirloom tomatoes became popular in the 1990s, Jack Rabin became acutely uncomfortable. “Everyone was going gaga over them. My farmers were trying to grow them, and we’d walk out in the field and just see horticultural garbage,” said Mr. Rabin, a longtime agricultural extension agent with Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.
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