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- MRSA Found In Pigs & Farmworkers By University of Iowa - Andrew Schneider, Senior Correspondent for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, ruined many a breakfast this [...] As they say in Seattle, "Its in the P-I" here.

- Salmonella Saint Paul Tainted Tomatoes in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin. - The Food and Drug Administration has expanded its warning to consumers nationwide that a salmonellosis outbreak [...] identified because clinical laboratories in all states send Salmonella strains from ill persons to their State publ

- Deadly Form of Tuberculosis Linked To Raw Cheese - Raw Milk's first cousin Raw Cheese is bringing death to San Diego in the form of a disease most Americans think no [...] However, the OC Register is well worth the read and can be found here.

- South Dakota Recalls Unpasteurized Milk - South Dakota is recalling milk for a potential health risk due to improper pasteurization. [...] E. coli, Salmonella, and other harmful bacteria that can cause life-threatening illness.

- "Dirty Dairy" Bill Introduced In California Senate - Let’s call it what it is: the “dirty dairy” bill. California has always [...] of Food & Agriculture views the standards as “reasonable and attainable.”Current regula

- Pennsylvania Department of Health Views Raw Milk As "Inherently Unsafe" - We've been wondering if we'd ever hear anything from the public health side of Pennsylvania [...] All of Ostroff's comments can be found here.

- Food Labs Asked To Provide Info To House On Import Tests - Food labs responsible for testing imports for safety are being put under suspicion by the U.S. House Committee on [...] lab executives rising before the Subcommittee to swear to tell the truth! Go here for more.

- Lifeway Pushes Back Against FDA Order To Shutdown Its Cheese & Seafood - This is interesting. Lifeway Foods, Inc. and its subsidiary, LFI Enterprises, Inc., both Illinois companies, [...] FDA said about why it was closing them down. The FDA's enforcement action follows the defendants' extensive hi

- FDA Tells Hope Food Supply to Shut Down - We've been watching the Houston area media today for reports on the Hope Food Supply, which has been shutdown on [...] executives who violate the law and endanger public health." The rest from FDA can be found here.

- More Stool Cultures Needed to Catch More Food Poisoning Cases - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 76 million foodborne illness cases occur in the [...] provide the correct response regarding whether selected diarrheal disease pathogens were reportable in their state.

- FDA Has Blocked (for a while) 2,964 Farm Fish Shipments From People's Republic Of China - Something called the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission last week held a hearing on [...] and gentian violet, or their metabolites, has been shown to induce cancer in humans or animals. Si

- Two-Day Food Labeling Workshop Being Held In Lansing In July - The Institute for Food Laws & Regulations (IFLR) at Michigan State University will present a Food Labeling [...] are available. More information about the scholarship opportunities and the Food Labeling Workshop can be found at

- Common Misspellings of Food Poison - food poision, food poison, food poisin, food poisons, food poisen - The CDC estimates that 76 million foodborne illness, or food poisoning, cases occur in the United States every year, [...] cases are caused by known agents – 30% by bacteria, 67% by viruses, and 3% parasites (Mead, et al., 1999).

- Food Safety In Canada Put In Danger By Daffy Decision - The British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that there is no evidence of: the relationship [...] to be taken seriously in the worst way. Well, this is the worst way.

- FoodNet Data For 2007 Shows No Progress Against Food-borne Illness - The Centers on Disease Control & Prevention today (4/10/08) held a telephone press conference to mark the [...] Here's the preliminary data from FoodNet for 2007 from the MMWR; Go here for the real thing.

- Colorado's El Paso County Admits It Cannot Keep Up with Inspections - The top health official for Colorado's El Paso County, home of the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Northern [...] and violations increased six-fold. Maybe someone should call Homeland Security.

- Butter Is Poison And We Should Tax It, Says Professor - Every year the Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association and Pennsylvania Diary Promotion Program sponsor the "butter [...] Butter has had all the good things taken out and just left the poison." Find out more here.

- Bad Ham, Staph Infections, Toxins Add Up To Lot's of Sick People - Claudia Sanders Dinner House in Shelbyville, KY proves again that sometimes its the really popular places that can [...] not the bacteria, but the toxin it produces, that makes people so sick. Check out the whole story here.

- An Important Story We Missed Last Sunday - The decline of the print media gets much attention. So much so, that one sign of life for the [...] production for the past two years - 143 million pounds - being recalled. The vice president of HACCP Consult

- Typhoid Fever Strikes Long Island Pizzeria - The Centers For Disease Control & Prevention says we do not need get a vaccine for Typhoid Fever unless we [...] Department of Health for not closing Mama Sbarro's. The Newsday story can be found here.

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