Fresh spinach that sparked a nationwide E. coli outbreak last fall was grown on a roughly 50-acre plot in San Benito County, health officials told state lawmakers.
Officials said at a legislative hearing Tuesday that investigators identified the grower who was farming that plot, which was in the second year of a three-year transition to
Yum Brands Inc. said Wednesday that 11 lawsuits have been filed against the company and its Taco Bell Corp. subsidiary for an E. coli outbreak in November and December.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, the outbreak was associated with food at Taco Bell restaurants in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Delaware. The
Salinas-area lawmakers this year have focused their bills on everything from preventing future E. coli outbreaks to bolstering health care to keeping a lid on gang violence.
Senators Jeff Denham and Abel Maldonado, plus Assemblyman John Laird, all have bills on health care to cover children, allow tax-free savings for medical expenses and refund a
BJ’s Wholesale Club Inc., the third-largest U.S. warehouse retailer, said a batch of mushrooms it recalled this week wasn’t contaminated with E. coli.
The news clears the name of Kaolin Farms in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, the source of the mushrooms.
John Pia, co-owner of Kaolin Mushroom Farms, told The News-Journal on Wednesday he was
BJ’s Wholesale Club showed extreme caution when it learned that some of its store-brand mushrooms might be contaminated with E. coli.
Without waiting for either government order or confirmation of preliminary test results, BJ’s quickly pulled the mushrooms from its shelves Monday, protecting customers from possible harm.
The company had not received any reports of
Scientists from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana have found that people employed in chimpanzee-focused research and tourism in a park in western Uganda are exchanging gastrointestinal bacteria – specifically Escherichia coli – with local chimpanzee populations. And some of the E. coli strains migrating to chimps are resistant to antibiotics used by humans in
BJ’s Wholesale Club has announced a mushroom recall.
The Massachusetts-based retailer said the voluntary recall covers pre-packaged Wellsley Farms brand fresh mushrooms purchased between Feb. 11 and Feb. 19.
The company said a routine inspection found the possible presence of trace amounts of E. coli from one lot code of sliced mushrooms.
CBC news reports that visitors to agricultural fairs face health risks that can be prevented if organizers take simple steps to ensure their safety, says a national non-profit organization. Exposure to E. coli bacteria, according to the Canadian Association of Fairs and Exhibitions, is the largest health risk facing visitors.
It said it is especially
In the wake of E. coli 0157:H7 outbreaks associated with spinach and other produce in 2006, Congress and California state legislators are looking for new strategies to assure the public that government is working hard to reduce future food-borne outbreaks.
Will the proposed legislation and additional oversight make a difference?
The answer is, unfortunately, probably
Scientists at the University of Southampton, U.K., have found that E. coli O157:H7, a harmful bacterium primarily associated with raw and undercooked ground beef or foods that come into contact with raw meat, cannot survive on certain copper alloy surfaces. The study, published in the June 2006 issue of Applied and Environmental Microbiology, compares