A Scripps Howard study of state health department reports made to the CDC, found in the five years 2000 through 2004, found that fruits and vegetables sickened three times more people with E. coli than meat.
Fruits and vegetables accounted for the worst E. coli outbreaks in years, including one Milwaukee outbreak attributed to contaminated
The Abilene-Taylor County Public Health District is investigating three reported cases of E. coli that have been reported in December.
All three ill individuals had eaten at a buffet before they became ill. A health district spokesman told the Reporter-News that the three illnesses were not considered an E. coli outbreak, and that the investigation
The owners of Dee Creek Farm, who operated a cow share program that last December was the source of an E. coli outbreak that sickened 18 people in Washington and Oregon in December of 2005, say they will begin selling raw milk again this summer.
Dee Creek Farm faces an $8,000 fine from the Washington
William Marler, a food safety advocate and attorney who is representing 10 victims of an E. coli outbreak at several Taco John’s locations in Iowa and Minnesota, called today on Taco John’s to pay the medical bills of all individuals who became ill with E. coli infections as part of the outbreak.
“We know that
The Associated Press points out that the FDA and CDC have investigated at least five produce-related outbreaks in the last four months, including the spinach E. coli outbreak, which sickened over 200 people and killed 4, and two Salmonella outbreaks that were traced to contaminated tomatoes served in restaurants. Combined, those outbreaks sickened 400.
The
The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition has published a fact sheet, titled, "Questions and Answers: Taco Bell E. coli O157:H7 Outbreak."
Q. Does FDA know what caused the E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to some Taco Bell Restaurants in several Northeastern states?
A: Shredded Iceberg lettuce has been implicated
Bix Produce, the company that the Minnesota Department of Health has identified as the supplier of E. coli-contaminated lettuce to Taco John’s restaurants in Minnesota and Iowa, announced that it will implement new measures to ensure produce safety.
The Minneapolis Star-Tribune reports that Bix is hiring a longtime crisis management spokesman and trying to
An E. coli lawsuit was filed against Taco John’s in Federal District Court for the Northern District of Iowa.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Ryan and Angela Saul, a Cedar Falls couple whose nine-year-old daughter, Autumn, is hospitalized at the University of Iowa Hospital in Iowa City. The Sauls are represented by Marler
The Chelan-Douglas Health District has issued a press release regarding an E. coli outbreak that sickened a at least six people, one adult and five children, in the Chelan and Manson areas around Thanksgiving.
The Seattle Times and the Associated Press are both reporting that at least one child is hospitalized at Seattle Children’s Hospital
In a reminder to physicians treating potential victims of E. coli poisoning, the CDC is warning doctors not to prescribe antibiotics for individuals who exhibit symptoms of E. coli infections.
Some doctors still prescribe antibiotics because they are unaware of the advice, misdiagnose the still-rare E. coli O157:H7 or don’t find the relationship between antibiotics