The USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service has announced that in a joint investigation between the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and FSIS, investigators had determined that Ranchers Beef, a Canadian company, had supplied E. coli-contaminated beef trimmings to Topps.
The agency also announced that Ranchers Beef, Ltd., has been "delisted" since October 20, meaning
Federal investigators are saying that they have recently learned that Topps Meat Company failed to require adequate testing on the raw beef it bought from its domestic suppliers, and it sometimes mixed tested and untested meat in its grinding machines.
The Agriculture Department acknowledged that its safety inspectors, who were in the Topps plant for
A Cocke County, Tennessee child has died after fighting an E. coli infection. The girl, who was 20-months-old and was diagnosed with E. coli on October 9, was determined to be brain-dead on Monday and her heart stopped functioning late Tuesday night.
Officials with the East Tennessee Regional Health Department said Wednesday the source of
A lawsuit seeking punitive damages was filed today against Topps, the New Jersey beef supplier that recalled nearly a year’s supply of frozen ground beef patties after its products were identified as the source of an E. coli outbreak in September.
The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Keith and Kristin Goodwin and their 8-year-old
E. coli cases have sprung up across the nation in recent weeks. Some of these cases have been traced back to the millions of pounds of ground beef that have been recalled by Cargill and Topps, but in other cases a source has not been identified.
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Federal regulators will be meeting to discuss the incidence of E. coli outbreaks and illnesses that can be attributed to E. coli strains that produce Shiga-toxins, but are not E. coli O157:H7.
For years, E. coli 0157:H7 has been the only strain being the focus of government oversight and has prompted massive nationwide food recalls.
Three students from Wisconsin and two North Carolina children were added to the number of E. coli illnesses caused by consumption of E. coli-contaminated ground beef patties produced by Cargill and sold by Sam’s Club today.
The Wisconsin students all ate hamburgers served at a cookout before a soccer game on campus. The North
At least five Wisconsin residents have been diagnosed with E. coli, according to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.
Health officials are working to determine whether the Wisconsin cases have a link to earlier cases reported in Minnesota that were traced back to consumption of E. coli-contaminated hamburgers produced by Cargill and sold at Sam’s Club.
One of
An E. coli outbreak among children who attend Galena Elementary School may not have come from a source inside or close to the school.
DNA test results have shown a link between the strain of the E. coli in the Galena cases with an isolated case reported outside the county in August.
“This finding suggests
Marler Clark client Emily McDonald’s mom Catherine is thankful that doctors did not treat her daughter with antibiotics without knowing whether she was suffering from E. coli or not. The administration of antibiotics is believed to be a potential contributing factor to children developing hemolytic uremic syndrome.
Antibiotics and painkillers can slow the expulsion