A Little Bit More to Voluntary Peanut Butter Recall: Salmonella Involved: Yesterday, the company involved in the manufacturing of the rebranded King Nut peanut butter products involved in the current Salmonella outbreak issued its own voluntary recall: Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) has its announcement available on the FDA site. In addition to the King [...]
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Just as last year’s echos of the Salmonellosis deaths are still ringing in our ears, this year has already started off with a new series of Salmonellosis cases. On January 8, 2009, the CDC posted a bulletin concerning a new outbreak of Salmonellosis, this time due to the Salmonella serotype Typhimurium. Unfortunately, there was no detail [...]
Just when you thought things were bogged down on the mysterious tomato-related Salmonellosis, the FDA and CDC seem to have turned yet another corner on the widespread illness. But rather than narrowing the search definitively, it seems that the search has widened. In addition to tomatoes, the FDA is also investigating other components found in [...]
The Setup When the initial information about the afflicted persons came in, supposedly due to the tomato-related Salmonellosis, the serious cases were alleged to be salsa-, guacamole- and/or picante-related. While this was later translated to being due to tomatoes, what if it isn’t? Why is this little detail so important? Because the number of cases [...]
The FDA is continuing its investigation on the tomato-associated Salmonellosis, and several FDA updates have occurred over the past weekend. Unfortunately, the M&M numbers continue to increase. In addition to the FDA, the CDC and the Indian Health Service are also participating in the investigation. Impacted Raw Tomato Types The types of raw tomatoes affected [...]
What had started back in the mid-April 2008 timeframe as a small footnote in the necessity of careful cleaning of (supposedly) fresh produce has gathered steam (no pun intended) to a fever pitch (again, no pun intended) today, as the FDA has updated its warnings on the raw red tomatoes spanning from June 5, 2008 [...]
