The state is allowing a Fresno County dairy to resume producing raw milk products after a three-week investigation into four cases of E. coli poisoning in Southern California.
"The recall and quarantine were lifted because Organic Pastures dairy met the requirements of the state to resume manufacturing operations," Steve Lyle, spokesman for the California Department
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that allows California public health officers to notify the public of the names of retailers that receive USDA-recalled meat and poultry, so that consumers can better protect themselves from food-borne illnesses, reports Common Dream Newswire.
This responds to a 2002 agreement in which California’s Department of Health
Cases of E. coli have been reported at Elite Kids Academy, Inc., Pre-School and Childcare in Van Buren, Arkansas.
Sharon Harris, owner of the daycare, tells KFSM 5 News that she became aware of the situation when a little girl became sick at the center. The girl went to her doctor who determined that she
As the FDA narrows the search for the cause of a nationwide outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 tied to bagged spinach, a specialist in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences said the incident may lead to tighter controls on food safety at the farm level.
Luke LaBorde, an associate professor of food science who studies
Ted Keany of the Washington Post also works at Keany Produce Company in Landover, Washington. The day after the FDA’s national warning for consumers to not eat fresh bagged spinach, the produce company wondered what to do with the spinach they did have.
The FDA had not recalled all spinach, but they also had not
A New York Times editorial comments on the recent spinach-related E. coli outbreak:
“Just when many of us thought that eating lots of fresh green leafy vegetables was the key to good health, along comes an outbreak of bacterial contamination in bagged spinach that has frightened consumers and led to a recall of all affected
Thomas Bartlett of the Washington Post recently ordered some raw, unpasteurized milk from a Tennessee dairy that offers raw milk as pet food.
Bartlett lives in Maryland, where raw milk is not offered in stores. Selling it is actually illegal there.
Not only is it illegal, but it is also a violation of federal law
Despite the recent E. coli spinach outbreak, food may be safer now than at any other time in the last decade, with illness occurring at record-low rates, reports the Associated Press.
Consumers get part of the credit, for handling food more safely at home, but experts say the biggest improvement came from better industry controls
California health officials said Thursday that they still hoped to locate the source of the E. coli spinach contamination that has sickened at least 187 people in 26 states, killing one.
Officials stressed that the state’s farmers must do a much better job of adhering to safe agriculture practices to prevent future E. coli outbreaks.
The state has revoked the milk-producing license of a northwestern Ohio dairy farmer accused of illegally selling raw milk after two people who drank raw milk from the farm became ill.
The Agriculture Department said the Carol Schmitmeyer farm in Darke County processed milk without a processing license, sold raw milk and did not properly