Showing posts with label Food Poisoning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food Poisoning. Show all posts

May 4, 2016

FDA Issues Food Recall, 38 Pages, Trader Joe Brands Included





[complete list]

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm498841.htm



[From article]
CRF Frozen Foods announced that its expanding its recall of frozen vegetables and fruit with best buy dates between April 26, 2016 and April 26, 2018.
In a statement, CRF said the company is performing this voluntary recall in cooperation with the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because the products have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
Christina LaRock's daughter Callie had just poured herself a bowl of peas from Trader Joes, which she eats every day after school, when LaRock got a recall alert from Newscenter 5's mobile app.
"I caught the name Trader Joe's Organic and I said 'I shop there every week'," LaRock said. The peas Callie was eating as a snack were among the 854 frozen foods possibly contaminated.
"My heart sank," said LaRock, as Callie approached her mother with an empty bowl and asked for more. "I said 'actually Callie, you can't'."
Three-hundred and fifty-eight products, sold nationwide under 42 separate brands, are included in the recall. Several brands included in the recall are carried by national chains with local stores, like Trader Joe's, Costco and Walmart.
"It makes me nervous as a mom and consumer," said LaRock. "It makes me want to grow a green thumb and start to put a garden in my backyard."

http://www.wcvb.com/news/foods-from-trader-joes-costco-walmart-part-of-massive-listeria-recall/39360054

Foods from Trader Joe's, Costco, Walmart part of massive listeria recall
358 products sold nationwide recalled for listeria contamination
UPDATED 10:52 PM EDT May 03, 2016

May 13, 2015

PBS, Frontline, Trouble With Chicken




http://video.pbs.org/video/2365487526/

The Trouble with Chicken
Aired: 05/12/2015
FRONTLINE
PBS
53:46

FRONTLINE investigates the spread of dangerous pathogens in meat - particularly poultry - and why the food-safety system isn't stopping the threat. Focusing on an outbreak of salmonella Heidelberg at one of the nation's largest poultry processors, the documentary reveals how contaminants are evading regulators and causing more severe illnesses as Americans consume more chicken than ever.

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See also book excerpt on why chicken tastes like chicken at this link

http://enoughroom.blogspot.com/2015/04/book-excerpt-how-chicken-and-other.html

February 10, 2013

UK Organized Crime Horse Meat Scandal


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2276403/Italian-Polish-mafia-gangs-blamed-horsemeat-scandal-government-warns-MORE-British-products-contaminated.html

Italian and Polish mafia gangs are blamed for horsemeat scandal as government warns MORE British products will be contaminated
Experts say beef is substituted for horse as part of multimillion pound scams
Environment secretary raises concerns of worldwide 'criminal conspiracy'
Food officials are being intimidated by cartels to sign off products as beefs
Testing is stepped up in Britain for horse DNA and results due within days
Wild horses in Romania are being slaughtered and shipped to Britain as beef
The animals suffer appalling cruelty, including being beaten with crowbars
By TOM KELLY
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 06:19 EST, 10 February 2013 | UPDATED: 19:57 EST, 10 February 2013

June 3, 2011

Food Poisoning, From Fresh Vegetables

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110602/ap_on_he_me/eu_contaminated_vegetables_europe

Outbreak in Europe blamed on 'super-toxic' strain
By MARIA CHENG and KIRSTEN GRIESHABER,
Associated Press
Thu Jun 2, 7:05 pm ET

May 30, 2011

Tainted Vegetables in Europe

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20110530/hl_afp/germanyspainfooddiseasehealtheu_20110530185850

14 dead in Germany as cucumber crisis grows
AFP
by Frederic Happe Frederic Happe
Mon May 30, 2:58 pm ET