June 2008

There’s a Class 1, High Health Risk recall of 13,275 pounds of ground beef underway in the Trenton, N.J. area due to possible contamination with E. coli 0157:H7.

The recall involving Dutch’s Meat, Inc. of Trenton was announced Sunday (6/8/08) by the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).

The ground

The town of Slayton in Southwest Minnesota isn’t much.   A couple thousand people living around the intersection of a couple of highways.   Still, it’s experiencing an unusual share of food-borne illnesses.

In May 2007,  a couple of restaurant workers at Slayton’s Pizza Ranch were said to be responsible for a Hepatitis A outbreak that required

Ohio’s Franklin County Health Department tonight (6/4/08) is reporting that the death of a 52-year old Gahanna woman on May 27th was E. coli-related.

Ohio has had 12 confirmed cases of E. coli so far this year. There were 92 confirmed cases in 2007 and 160 the year before. But, officials say deaths have been