February 8, 2021
Organic basil packaged in plastic clamshell containers sold under the brand names That’s Tasty and Simple Truth is being recalled for Cyclospora contamination. Shenandoah Growers Inc. of Harrisonburg, VA issued the recall for 3240 units of branded fresh-cut, organic basil…
April 16, 2020
Authorities are searching for answers after Crystal Lynn Pearson, 34, was killed in a house explosion and fire in Pelzer, South Carolina. Emergency responders found Pearson’s body on the couch in the front room of the home on Orr Street…
February 17, 2020
Ten months before federal officials announced a Listeria outbreak linked to hard-boiled eggs produced by Almark Foods in Gainesville, GA, inspectors from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found Listeria in two of the samples they gathered from the…
November 5, 2019
The number of Legionnaires’ disease cases reported annually in the U.S. hit a record high in 2018, according to data just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Last year, 9,933 cases of the severe form of…
November 1, 2019
A propane leak is the suspected source of a house explosion in Wagner, SD that killed two people on October 30. Yankton Sioux Reservation police told local media that a mother and her young child were killed in the blast…
October 24, 2019
The Moby Dick House of Kabob Salmonella outbreak sickened nine people in Virginia. All of those illnesses occurred in September among Virginia residents who dined at Moby Dick House of Kabob locations in that state. Additional cases were reported in…