The year 2007 is going to be remembered for the big beef recalls due to E. coli returning with a 
vengeance. All totaled meat producers were forced to recall over 33.3 million pounds of beef products.
Topping the list was the 21.7 million pound recall due to E. coli that sent the New Jersey-based Topps
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert due to illnesses from Salmonella Newport associated with fresh ground beef products contaminated with multi-drug resistant Salmonella that may have been ground and sold at Safeway supermarkets in Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada and New Mexico between Sept. 19
Snapps Ferry Packing has announced that they are recalling hamburger patties and bulk ground beef that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.
The problem was discovered through routine testing.
The products subject to recall are:
No illnesses have
Lawyers for parties involved in claims that arose from the 2006 E. coli outbreak traced to contaminated spinach from California’s Salinas Valley are meeting this week in the hopes of resolving claims brought by several Marler Clark clients. Dawn Withers, a reporter with the Salinas Californian, interviewed attorney Bill Marler about the cases he is
The Western Growers Association said there should be no exemptions from uniform steps that growers and handlers should have to follow to certify the safety of lettuce, spinach, endive, kale, cabbage and other greens.
At a congressional hearing in May, Joseph Pezzini, an executive with Ocean Mist Farms in Castroville, Calif., and the chairman overseeing
Researchers from Kansas State University have concluded that cattle that are fed distiller’s grain, a byproduct of ethanol production, have an increased incidence of E. coli O157:H7.
T.G. Nagaraja, a professor of diagnostic medicine and pathobiology at Kansas State’s College of Veterinary Medicine, and Jim Drouillard, a professor of animal sciences at Kansas State
Five-year-old Aubrey Anderson from Hutchinson, Kansas, was released from Wesley Medical Center after being hospitalized for a month with hemolytic uremic syndrome. Aubrey was released from the hospital to recover at home because her mother is a registered nurse.
Public health officials have yet to identify the source of Aubrey’s illness, and she will
Vickie Shelton, a Knox County resident, passed away on Monday, November 26th at Central Baptist Hospital in Lexington after being admitted. Ms. Shelton had eaten ground beef before becoming ill, and public health officials are conducting tests to determine whether that ground beef was contaminated with E. coli.
American Foods Group of Green Bay, Wisc.