Lawsuits Filed in Subway Shigella Outbreak

Two lawsuits were filed this week against a Subway in Lombard, Illinois, the site of a county-wide Shigella outbreak. The suits were filed by Marler Clark, the Seattle-based foodborne illness law firm, on behalf of Barbara and Andres Romero and...

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Slow Food Tracing Puts School Lunch at Risk

Several hundred schools may have received recalled beef, USA Today reported Wednesday. The beef, potentially contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, was not purchased by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA)...

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"Ban the Salt," Says NY Lawmaker

New York Assemblyman Felix Ortiz may just be one of those fellows who get a little carried away with the cause of the moment. Or, as the first lawmaker to...

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More or Less Food Safety Regulation?

During the past weeks, a few news stories have highlighted the distinctions between two different legislative approaches to address the issue of food safety.  There is little question that the...

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Foodborne Illness By The Numbers

Robert L. Scharff, with the help of funding from the Produce Safety Project at Georgetown University, recently published a study analyzing the financial impact of foodborne illness in the United...

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HVP Adding Up in US; Questions in Canada

More products made with hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) from Basic Food Flavors in Nevada were being recalled in the United States as Canadians Friday questioned if their own food safety...

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More Victims, More Pepper Recalled

The nationwide outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo grew some today in both numbers of victims and recalled products.   The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta said...

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Dutch Valley Joins Pepper Recall

The nationwide 2010 outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo has another company recalling pepper and products made with pepper.   It's been a week since the federal Centers for Disease Control and...

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US One of Top Five Food Safety Offenders

A new global monitoring tool identifies the United States as one of the top five worst food safety offenders, along with China, Turkey, Iran, and Spain. The findings are based...

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Meat: Ready for its Close-Up

Last week, all but one of the European Union nations voted in favor of using Thrombian, or Transglutaminase (TG), otherwise known as Meat Glue, or to some Meat Make-Up. Thrombian...

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CDC Traces Outbreak with Shopper Cards

As of March 2, 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) counted a total of 245 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Montevideo in 44 states....

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Expanded Pet Food Recall Brings Changes

Nature's Variety expanded a recall of Chicken Formula Raw Frozen Diets for dogs and cats to include the "Best If Used By" dates of 10/29/10 and 11/9/10 because these products...

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