Listeria Outbreak (2011)

Jonathan Fielding, the public's MD

2013-05-15 00:00:00

If you've got your health, the cliche goes, you've got just about everything. If you've got public health duties, you're responsible for just about everything from mosquitoes (West Nile carriers) to hygiene (wash your hands for as long as it takes to sing...

Putting a price tag on safe food

2013-01-14 00:00:00

In addition to the 3,000 deaths it causes each year, contaminated food is very expensive. The cost of food poisoning in this country comes to $14 billion a year, according to a July 2012 study published in the Journal of Food Protection, including the...

FDA proposes new food safety rules for farmers, producers

2013-01-04 10:41:00

The Food and Drug Administration laid out two proposed rules Friday designed to boost food safety and curb illnesses that kill thousands of Americans a year. The first would require food producers to have formal plans in place to avoid and deal with...

California cantaloupe farms regroup after listeria outbreak

2012-01-05 15:53:00

Ocean Spray recalls more dried cranberries after finding metal fragments

2011-12-07 16:34:32

Deadly cantaloupe and deadly congressional decisions

2011-09-29 16:35:32

L.A. firm recalls 377,775 pounds of ground beef in E. coli scare

2011-10-12 16:34:32

California farmers call Colorado cantaloupe sickness 'isolated'

2011-10-19 16:35:04

Death toll from listeria-tainted cantaloupes hits 29

2011-11-03 16:36:03

FDA: New rules will make food safer

2013-01-18 01:05:30

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Food and Drug Administration says its new guidelines would make the food Americans eat safer and help prevent the kinds of foodborne disease outbreaks that sicken or kill thousands of consumers each year. The rules, the most...

FDA proposes sweeping new food safety rules

2013-01-04 20:17:00

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday proposed the most sweeping food�safety rules in decades, requiring farmers and food companies to be more vigilant in the wake of deadly outbreaks in peanuts, cantaloupe and leafy greens....

FDA names Ind. farm tied to salmonella in melons

2012-09-01 01:05:00

OWENSVILLE, Ind. (AP) - Health officials say a farm in southwestern Indiana was the source of at least some of the salmonella-contaminated cantaloupe that has made at least 178 people in 21 states ill, but they are still trying to determine whether...

Twenty-nine deaths are now linked to a listeria outbreak from contaminated cantaloupes.

2011-11-03 11:02:28

Further details are emerging about the multi-state listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupe.

2011-10-19 12:44:17

Maggie Schaum of Perry Hall , shopping at RB Fruits and Veggies in the Pennsylvania Dutch Market, said she was afraid to buy cantaloupes after hearing about the recent listeria outbreak .

2011-09-29 00:00:00