Posts tagged salmonella

• False Claims Made By Hand Sanitizers, FDA Says

  Angel Reyes | April 21, 2011 12:13 PM | 0 CommentsNorth Dallas, TX Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accused four hand sanitizer companies of making false claims that their products prevent MRSA, a potentially lethal infection, as well as E. coli,...

• Alfalfa Sprout Salmonella Outbreak Linked To 94 Illnesses

  Angel Reyes | December 29, 2010 11:24 AM | 0 CommentsNorth Dallas, TX Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has warned the public to avoid eating alfalfa sprouts and spicy sprouts produced by Tiny Greens Organic Farm due to a possible salmonella...

• New Food Safety Registry A Success So Far, FDA Says

  Angel Reyes | July 30, 2010 1:08 PM | 0 CommentsNorth Dallas, TX Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) new electronic food registry has helped to prevent more than 100 potential food safety problems in its first months in operation, according to a new...

• Massive Food Recalls: SpaghettiOs and Marie Callender Frozen Meals

  Angel Reyes | June 21, 2010 11:44 AM | 4 CommentsNorth Dallas, TX Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Campbell Soup Company announced a recall of more than 15 million pounds of certain cans of “SpaghettiOs with Meatballs,” due to possible under-processing, according to a news release by...

• FDA Only Conducted Half of Food Safety Audits

  Beth Janicek | May 27, 2009 6:40 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  According to new documents sent to Congress, the Food and Drug Administration only conducted about half of the state food safety audits it promised to do in the two years before the recent peanut...

• Food Safety

  Beth Janicek | April 18, 2009 12:42 PM | 1 CommentSan Antonio, TX Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  As President, Barack Obama has a lot of challenging issues to deal with – I am sure he never thought peanut butter would be one of the issues. When I heard peanut products were being...

• Kraft Sparks Pistachio Recall

  Beth Janicek | April 07, 2009 1:30 PM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Kraft Foods Inc. received notice that its trail mix products were tainted with salmonella in 2007. Recently, Kraft has been able to trace the source of that salmonella to Setton Pistachios of Terra...

• Pistachio Products Recalled For Possible Salmonella Contamination

  Chrissie Cole | March 30, 2009 3:18 PM | 0 CommentsCorpus Christi, TX Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  More than one million pounds of roasted pistachio products have been recalled by a California food processing plant because they may be contaminated with salmonella. The products came from Setton...

• Pistachio Products Linked To Salmonella Contamination

  Chrissie Cole | March 27, 2009 2:27 AM | 0 CommentsBrownsville , TX Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  Pistachio products sold by Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc, California are being investigated by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) for Salmonella contamination. The company...

• Texas Peanut Plant Update

  Beth Janicek | February 14, 2009 10:37 AM | 0 CommentsSan Antonio, TX Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  I posted a blog, Peanut Plant in Texas Closes, about the ongoing investigation at the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) processing plant in Plainview, Texas. I have since learned new information,...