Foster Farms chicken has been linked to two Salmonella outbreaks this year. But the company’s history with the pathogen stretches back more than a decade. When, earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that Foster Farms was, again, the source of a multi-state Salmonella outbreak, the company took a similar approach it … Read more
The hundreds of Salmonella victims sickened by Foster Farms chicken should not be left to bear the financial responsibility of the outbreak. The company allegedly produced chicken contaminated with antibiotic-strains of Salmonella Heidelberg. People who were sickened after eating this chicken have to pay medical bills incurred because of their illness. There may be good … Read more
Food & Water Watch has released a statement about the USDA’s failure to prevent the Foster Farms Salmonella outbreak. Almost 300 people in 17 states have been sickened so far. They say that this outbreak goes beyond the government shutdown crisis. And this outbreak is especially troubling because the hospitalization rate for those sickened is twice the … Read more
The USDA has sent a letter to Foster Farms, threatening to shut down three of the company’s facilities if significant corrective changes aren’t made by Thursday, October 10, 2013. The company’s products are associated with a Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak, the second this year, that has sickened at least 278 people in 17 states. The letter … Read more
After the announcement of the Foster Farms raw chicken Salmonella outbreak, we realized there is a lot of misinformation out there about what contamination of food by pathogenic bacteria really means, both physically and legally. Reading comments on some other news stories really brought this point home. Most people do not understand why food safety … Read more
The Foster Farms Salmonella outbreak has sickened 278 people in 17 states and hospitalized 76 of them, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) whose shutdown-induced skeleton crew weighed in on the outbreak yesterday. Lab tests have identified seven strains of the bacteria involved in the outbreak, four are rare, three are … Read more
Earlier this year, there were a few vague announcements about a Salmonella outbreak associated with Foster Farms chicken. In March, the CDC announced an outbreak that sickened at least 128 people in 13 states. Most of the ill persons lived on the West coast, but there were people sick on the East coast as well. … Read more
A Salmonella outbreak has, again, been linked to Foster Farms chicken. And, again, there is no recall. Yesterday, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA FSIS) issued a public health alert for raw chicken produced at three of the company’s facilities in California that has been linked to 278 illnesses in 18 sates. It … Read more
The large West Coast Salmonella outbreak associated with Foster Farms Chicken — announced on Monday — is the second big set of Salmonella poisonings associated with the brand in 15 months. The first outbreak, which began June 1, 2012, sickened 132 people in 13 states, according to the “final update” provided by the Centers for … Read more
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert because of concerns that 278 illnesses caused by Salmonella Heidelberg are associated with raw chicken products produced by Foster Farms at three facilities in California. FSIS can’t link the illnesses to a specific product and production period. Raw products from the … Read more