A Foster Farms plant associated with a Salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 400 people reopened today after a brief closure. The plant in Livingston, CA resumed operations this morning. The plant, one of three Foster Farms facilities associated with a Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak that sickened at least 430 people in 23 states and Puerto … Read more
Food & Water Watch has obtained an internal email by the USDA regarding a new data collection effort by the National Chicken Council. According to the email, The National Chicken Council is spearheading an effort to “collect samples from chicken parts from most all poultry establishments in order to collectively work on voluntary pathogen reduction performance goals that … Read more
In the world of food safety, many dangerous pathogens are controlled through HACCP plans, regulation, and inspections by the FDA and USDA. Of course pathogens are ubiquitous in the world. But food should not be sold to the public that is so contaminated with pathogenic bacteria that it makes people sick. At this time, just … Read more
The cockroaches of Foster Farms grabbed all the attention this week for giving the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) the technical reason is needed to close one of three plants associated with a multi-state Salmonella outbreak that has sickened 419 people: “insanitary conditions.” The problem is that the USDA knew there were cockroaches and other … Read more
Antibiotic resistance is one of the top five public health threats looming in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More than 2 million Americans are sickened with antibiotic-resistant infections every year, some as a result of food poisoning. Drug-resistant non-typhoidal Salmonella strains, or Salmonella strains other than Typhi, Paratyphi A, … Read more