Posts tagged food poisoning

• Bacon Bits May Be Contaminated by Listeria

  Brian W. Smith | January 07, 2009 9:07 AM | 0 CommentsTallahassee, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Patrick Cudahy, a Cudahy, Wisc., firm, is recalling approximately 3,590 pounds of bacon bit products that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food...

• Bizarre Incident Highlights Danger of Eating Raw Seafood

  Brian W. Smith | September 30, 2008 12:49 PM | 0 CommentsTallahassee, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Medical examiners in Panama City, Florida say that a man who died following a high-speed police chase had a rare form of cholera-causing bacterium. Steven M. Harrison was unconscious in the back...

• Salmonella Investigation Expands, But Still No Answers

  Brian W. Smith | July 15, 2008 1:50 PM | 0 CommentsTallahassee, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Although the scope of the investigation has widened, the Center for Disease Control and the FDA seem no closer to discovering the source of the recent outbreak of Salmonella St. Paul. Tomatoes were...

• New FDA Program to Enhance States' Food Safety

  Jenny Albano | August 01, 2007 11:20 AM | 0 CommentsGainesville, Ocala & Daytona Beach, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The FDA announced they have launched a new national program to make sure state run regulatory programs for manufacturing, processing, and packing food are more uniform, equivalent, and are of high quality.As of now, program regulations can vary from state to state. The FDA thinks these variations can lead to inconsistencies in the oversight of food safety. The national program's regulations...

• Peanut Butter Recall Extended to 2004

  Joe Saunders | March 12, 2007 10:08 PM | 0 CommentsSarasota, FL Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Peter Pan peanut butter recall has been extended to peanut butter manufactured as far back as October 2004. The outbreak of salmonella related to peanut butter has so far sickened 290 people from 39 states. No deaths have been reported.