March 2013

  • 9 Sick
  • 3 Adults
  • 6 Children
  • 3 with Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome

Investigators with the Hawaii Department of Health are looking into at least nine people have now become ill from E. coli O157:H7.  The confirmed cases consist of three adults and six children. All of them live on Oahu except for a Canadian visitor

Rich Products Corporation, a Buffalo, NY firm, is recalling approximately 196,222 pounds of frozen chicken quesadilla and various other heat treated, not fully cooked frozen mini meals and snack items because they may be contaminated with E. coli O121, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.  The following products

Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. (asx:BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has received a contribution of up to 500,000 from the National Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP) for the Company’s research and development of a second generation E. coli O157 cattle vaccine. IRAP’s support will offset salary

King County Public Health agency shut down an Ethiopian restaurant in Seattle’s central district on Wednesday afternoon after connecting the establishment to an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7, health agency spokeswoman Kathryn Ross has confirmed to Food Safety News.

At least two people have fallen ill in the outbreak, and Ross said the likelihood