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US taxpayers continue to pay to be told they suck at food safety
In 2010, I and about everyone else in the small incestuous world of food safety, was contacted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and asked if we would advise on a food safety communications...
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17 now sick with Salmonella from Welsh laverbread outbreak
Five new cases of Salmonella with possible links to laverbread have emerged in the past week bringing the total number to 17, said Public Health Wales. Tests are continuing to confirm whether they are...
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Does food safety risk analysis have a public hope? How politics make us stupid
I have no time for scientists who bitch behind closed doors about how they’re misunderstood by the public. As Thomas Jefferson famously stated, which I always use to introduce my risk analysis course,...
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Bag of cows’ hooves found in Dublin take away
A plastic bag filled with cows’ hooves and five plastic bags of cow skin found in a Dublin take away were just some of the unusual items which were the subject of prohibition orders for May, the Food...
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Vibrio cholera in Mexico City
On September 2 and 6, 2013, Mexico’s National System of Epidemiological Surveillance identified two cases of cholera in Mexico City. Rectal swab cultures from both patients were confirmed as toxigenic...
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166 sick from Salmonella linked to bearded dragons
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that this investigation is over; however, the illnesses linked to contact with pet bearded dragons are expected to continue at a low level....
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More hatching chick associated salmonellosis
You see a cute baby chick, I see a Salmonella factory. The other parents hate me at school. Scott Wesse writes in his Worms & Germs blog that the salmonellosis outbreak in the US associated with...
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Chili’s restaurant cook fired for shirtless kitchen selfies in Florida
One of my favorite food writers, Tina Nguyen, reports for Mediate, that a Chili’s line cook in Florida was fired this week after photos emerged of him taking shirtless photos in a restaurant, and no,...
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Salmonella spurs peanut butter recall in Philippines
The Philippines Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the recall of several batches of Arrowhead Mills Peanut Butter products over possible contamination from Salmonella. Based on FDA...
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Science and blogs: Gelman vs. Case-Deaton
Case and Deaton, welcome to the blogs. Prominent academics are often astonished at the rapidity with which the blogosphere occasionally pounces on and dissects their research findings. In this case, it...
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Aldi recalls smoked trout on Listeria concerns
Supermarket chain Aldi issued a recall on smoked trout products made by H. van Wijnen B.V. after Listeria was found in the product. In certain quantities (actually, U.S. has a zero tolerance) Listeria...
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Not everything is wrong in Kansas (just most things): FDA takes action...
The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas entered a consent decree of permanent injunction today between the United States and Native American Enterprises, LLC, located in Wichita, Kansas; its...
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Stomach bug outbreak at Fort McMurray wildfire evacuation centres declared over
After 307 cases of gastro-intestinal illnesses were reported at evacuation centres between May 6 and June 1, health officials declared the outbreak over Monday. Alberta Health Services said it was no...
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32,000 hospitalized over contaminated water in Turkey
The number of people hospitalized due to contaminated water in the Elbistan district of the Mediterranean province of Kahramanmaraş has risen from 5,000 to some 32,000, while a group of officials...
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Power of going public: 30 children in Jerusalem daycare sick with Salmonella
Arutz Sheva of Israel National News reports that on April 30, a report was received from the mother of an infant enrolled in an Emunah daycare in Jerusalem claiming infants and toddlers in one of the...
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Cyclosporiasis – France ex Mexico
This case of cyclospora may have no relation to the Canadian outbreak; or may. A 64-year-old French [female] with type 2 diabetes mellitus was referred to our department on [Mon 3 Jul 2017] because she...
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Handwashing is never enough, bureaucrats have no spine: E. coli O157 from...
The EKKA, Queensland’s agricultural showpiece, concluded last week in Brisbane, about the same time an uncomfortable memory was finally published in the peer-reviewed cyber-sphere. In Aug. 2013, 56...
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