April 8, 2020
H&C Food Inc, of Brooklyn is the third brand of enoki mushrooms recalled in connection with a Listeria outbreak that has sickened 36 people killing four of them. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) performed genetic tests on samples…
April 7, 2020
Public health officials say people with E.coli infections should not use antidiarrheal products as they may increase their risk of developing a potentially deadly complication called hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). But that information seems to have slipped by the team…
April 2, 2020
Utah has been hit hard by the E. coli outbreak linked to clover sprouts served at Jimmy John’s and sold elsewhere. Twenty-seven of the 36 illnesses in this outbreak have been reported from Utah. Other states that have been affected…
March 31, 2020
A propane tank explosion in Manor, TX has left three people with life-threatening burn injuries. The victims, two women and one man who are all in their 40s, sustained burns to 40 percent of their bodies. Two of them were…
March 30, 2020
Thirty people have been hospitalized with Listeria infections they got from eating contaminated Enoki mushrooms imported from Korea. Four people have died and two women pregnant women have suffered miscarriages. The outbreak, which has sickened 36 people in 17 states,…
March 26, 2020
After Fuji Food Products issued a Listeria recall for sushi sold under Trader Joe’s and Okami brand names a few months ago, the FDA inspected the company’s facility in Brockton, MA and conditions they found there prompted the agency to…
March 20, 2020
The E. coli O103 outbreak linked to clover sprouts has expanded to include 39 illnesses in six states. Two people have been hospitalized. Since the last update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on February 26, 2020,…
March 19, 2020
A Listeria outbreak at China Buffet in Alexandria, MN has sickened two people, one of whom is a teenager. Both people ate at the restaurant, located about two hours northwest of the Twin Cities, on February 15. Contact the Pritzker…
March 19, 2020
Should we be paying more attention to the gastrointestinal symptoms of COVID-19? The answer, according to new studies from China published in Gastroenterology, is definitely yes. Fever, cough and shortness of breath are the hallmark COVID-19 symptoms we’ve all been…
March 17, 2020
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sent a warning letter to the Nashville-based airline caterer Gourmet Catering to Go after inspectors found mold, E. coli and dead roaches near its kitchen. Based on those and other unsanitary conditions, the…
March 17, 2020
Three days after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned consumers not to eat red clover sprouts produced by Chicago Indoor Garden because they had been linked to an ongoing E. coli O103 outbreak, the company issued a recall…
March 16, 2020
One-sixth of the people sickened in the Listeria outbreak linked to Enoki mushrooms are pregnant women, two of whom suffered fetal losses. That sad news was included in the latest update on the outbreak from the Centers for Disease Control…