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Archive for the 'FDA' CategoryFDA finds source of cantaloupes’ listeria food poisoning at Colorado farm Unsanitary equipment has been found to be the cause of a horrific listeria outbreak in tainted cantaloupes which has killed at least 25 Americans in 12 states and sickened about 100 others — the deadliest food poisoning outbreak in America in 25 years.
The Food and Drug Administration says the outbreak was the result of equipment at a southwestern Colorado facility for Jensen Farms which was old and difficult to clean. It also blamed pools of water on the floor of the facility near employee walkways and equipment.
These findings resulted from a joint investigation by the FDA and the CDC, or Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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| May 19 |
Archive for the 'FDA' CategoryWhen drug giants err, as with Reglan, an Adler defective drugs lawyer can help
One such risky remedy is Reglan, the brand name often given to digestive-aid drugs featuring metoclopramide. Other brands with the drug include Maxolon and Octamide. |
Americans don’t like being at anyone’s mercy, but that’s clearly the case with the pharmaceutical giants which create and sell drugs to millions of us, making billions of dollars in the process. Such drugs aren’t always fully vetted by such corporations or by government watchdog the Food and Drug Administration. As a result, many innocent victims can suffer injury and even death — all because they took a prescribed medication.| Mar 31 |
Archive for the 'FDA' CategoryNuts! Another possible salmonella source — in pistachios
Before you say “Nuts!” to all nuts, keep in mind they may be fine. But until the Food and Drug Administration completes a probe into possible salmonella food poisoning in pistachios, the feds are advising Americans to squirrel away those nuts until the “all clear” sounds. That advice isn’t aimed just at pistachios themselves, but at any product which contains them, from trail mix to ice cream. Again, it may not be contaminated. But since those products have a long shelf life anyway, why not wait until the FDA has proven them A-OK? |
First, peanut butter. Then, tomatoes. Then, | Feb 13 |
Archive for the 'FDA' CategoryTexas peanut plant joins salmonella food poisoning probe
Now, mixing jelly with peanut butter is one thing, but dead rodents is a bit too adventurous for most tastes — and unhealthy enough to prompt a recall of all existing products ever shipped from the Plainview plant. PCA’s now-shuttered Blakely, Ga. plant already has been branded with that distinction. |
Jim “the Hammer” Adler is fed up with food poisoning. Even if the peanut butter salmonella outbreak doesn’t hit us all, it could kill all of our appetites. The latest queasy quotient comes from news that Peanut Corporation of America — a name which could forever live in infamy — also has had its Plainview plant in West Texas shut down after dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers were found there.| Feb 11 |
Archive for the 'FDA' CategoryWhat’s wrong with the stimulus bill? It doesn’t protect peanuts!
Peanuts are under assault by manufacturers who have no respect for America’s favorite comfort food or the well being of their fellow Americans. When the FBI starts raiding peanut plants for salmonella food poisoning you know the situation is out of control at a time when peanut products need more protection than ever given the state of the economy. In some respects, Africa is better off than we are when it comes to peanuts. What does Africa have to do with it? Read on. But first, a reprise of American values. |
If the economy gets any worse, we’ll all be eating peanuts. They’re cheap and nutritious. But these days, they can be deadly.| Feb 04 |
Archive for the 'FDA' CategoryRats, roaches taint peanuts in salmonella food poisoning scare
CBS News helped answer the first with a report today from the now-closed Blakely, Ga. plant of Peanut Corporation of America, believed to be the source of a salmonella outbreak that’s killed eight people so far and sickened hundreds — if not thousands — of others. This follows another devastating salmonella food poisoning onslaught last fall which struck down many Americans via a Mexican produce supplier. |
To eat, or not to eat? That’s hardly the question, since we must ingest and imbibe to survive. But with America rocked by another salmonella food poisoning outbreak, questions do arise. One is, “How bad is it?” Another is, “What do we do now?”| Jul 30 |
Archive for the 'FDA' CategorySerrano salmonella lawyer can help, now that we know
Those lyrics might not have passed muster with George and Ira Gershwin, but they certainly apply today, now that the Food and Drug Administration has pinpointed its search for the salmonella Saintpaul outbreak to two farms in Mexico — and to serrano peppers, not tomatoes, as originally believed. Tomatoes still aren’t entirely off the hook in this investigatory tug-of-war, the FDA says, since the same farms in which salmonella was found in the irrigation supply and in peppers also could have exposed tomatoes to the same contaminated water. Jalapeno peppers also are suspect. But at least after more than three months of futile searching and more than 1,300 documented cases of Americans suffering disastrous digestive disorders, the feds seem to be onto something. (more…) |
You like tomato and I like serrano. Tomato. Serrano. Tomato. Serrano. Let’s call the whole thing off!| Jul 17 |
Archive for the 'FDA' CategoryTomatoes may be A-OK, per FDA
Does that mean we’re home free, as far as the threat of bathroom runs spurred by this awful bacterium? No, sadly, it does not. Given the salmonella cases in which tomatoes were served with peppers or other foods, the FDA stills sees a possible link between the digestive-tract bug and jalapeno or Serrano peppers. You probably should add cilantro to that tossed salad of possible culprits, as well. The FDA now advises people to avoid eating raw jalapeno or Serrano peppers. And young children and the elderly should be especially on the alert, since their immune systems aren’t as strong. (more…) |
You say tomato, and I say forget about it? No way — not any longer — since the Food and Drug Administration has lifted its warning on tomatoes which sprang from America’s ongoing outbreak of salmonella Saintpaul.