The USDA has finally released an official recall notice about the Costco in San Francisco removing Foster Farms rotisserie chicken products from store shelves. This recall is happening because Salmonella is an illegal adulterant in ready-to-eat foods. It’s not illegal to sell raw chicken contaminated with Salmonella, unless someone gets sick. But USDA is not … Read more
Almost 27 percent of chicken samples from the Foster Farms plant in Fresno recently tested positive for Salmonella, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Although that’s more than three and half times the federal standard, it’s not high enough to prompt the USDA to ask the company to issue a voluntary recall. And … Read more
The type of Salmonella making people sick in the Foster Farms chicken outbreak is putting victims in the hospital at an alarming rate, has proven to be resistant to antibiotics and is causing blood infections at an abnormally high rate, according to state and federal infectious disease experts. Foodborne pathogens that are resistant to drug … Read more
According to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, the Costco store in South San Francisco, California is recalling about 40,000 pounds of Foster Farms rotisserie chicken products because they may be linked to the ongoing multistate Salmonella outbreak. There is no information about this recall on the Costco web site. The Costco store located … Read more
Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch, has issued a statement about the “remarkable recovery” of Foster Farms. Raw chicken from that company has caused a Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak, the second this year, that has sickened at least 317 people in 20 states and Puerto Rico. Earlier this week, the USDA’s FSIS threatened … Read more
Food poisoning litigation experts representing victims of the Foster Farms chicken Salmonella outbreak have a mountain of evidence contained in inspection and review documents from the United States Department of Agriculture. Firms like Pritzker Hageman, a national food safety law firm that has collected tens of millions of dollars for victims of past Salmonella outbreaks … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says that 31 people in 20 states and Puerto Rico have been infected with seven outbreak strains of Salmonella Heidelberg. But no recall. That is an increase of 39 from the last update on October 87, 2013. Forty-two percent of ill persons have been hospitalized. No … Read more
Representative Louise Slaughter (D-NY), the only microbiologist in Congress, issued a statement about the Foster Farms chicken Salmonella outbreak that has sickened 278 people in 17 states with a “staggering” hospitalization rate of 42%.. She said, “This is our country’s worst nightmare – a massive outbreak of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella – and it’s made even worse … Read more
Kroger stores are removing Foster Farms chicken from their stores after an announcement of a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least 278 people in 17 states. While Foster Farms has said it has “fixed the situation”, Kroger isn’t taking chances. The stores that are removing Foster Farms chicken include Fry’s, King Soopers, Ralphs, Fred … Read more
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA FSIS) has decided that three Foster Farms slaughterhouses linked to a Salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds of people can stay open. Foster Farms has decided recalling its contaminated chicken is not necessary. Now, consumers need to decide if they’re going to buy it. … Read more