Salmonella Outbreak

Salmonella Outbreak Prompts Recall Of 800,000 Pounds Of Beef

Yahoo News | Steve Gorman | Posted 09.07.2009 | Denver


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - At least 21 people in Colorado and 10 other U.S. states have been sickened by a salmonella outbreak that prompted the recall o...

14 Sickened In Colorado With Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella Burgers, With a Side of Flame Retardants

Grist | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green


Here's the latest: In Colorado, 14 people have fallen ill from hamburger meat tainted with antibiotic-resistent salmonella, the Boulder newspaper Dail...

Food Banks: Peanut Butter Salmonella Toss Out

AP | SOPHIA TAREEN | Posted 03.20.2009 | Business


CHICAGO — Food banks nationwide are being forced to toss thousands of pounds of food containing peanut products recalled in the salmonella outbr...

Peanut Corp. Of America Files For Bankruptcy

AP | KATE BRUMBACK and GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 03.16.2009 | Business


ATLANTA — The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak is going out of business. The Lynchburg, Va.-based Peanut...

Peanut Butter Sales Down 25 Percent

New York Times | ANDREW MARTIN and LIZ ROBBINS | Posted 03.09.2009 | Business


Many consumers, apparently disregarding the fine print of the salmonella outbreak and food recall caused by a Georgia peanut plant, are swearing off a...

Tainted Peanut Butter Possibly Sent To Schools

AP | BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 03.09.2009 | Living


WASHINGTON — A Georgia peanut plant knowingly shipped salmonella-laced products as far back as 2007, at times sending out tainted products after...

Rat Found Roasting In Salmonella-Infected Peanut Plant

CBS | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business


(CBS) A former employee of the Georgia peanut plant at the center of a criminal investigation in a nationwide salmonella outbreak says he saw a rat dr...

Salmonella Outbreak In Peanut Butter Leads To One Of Nation's Largest Ever Product Recalls

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and GREG BLUESTEIN | Posted 02.28.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — The salmonella outbreak spawned one of the largest ever product recalls Wednesday by a Georgia peanut plant where federal inspector...

Salmonella Outbreak: 388 Sickened Across U.S.

Yahoo! News | Posted 02.07.2009 | Green


An outbreak of salmonella food poisoning has made 388 people sick across 42 states, sending 18 percent of them to the hospital, U.S. health officials ...

Our Broken Food Safety System

Julian Brookes | Posted 09.12.2008 | Green


Julian Brookes

The US food system is by most accounts one of the safest in the world, but there's evidence that food-borne disease outbreaks are becoming nastier, more frequent, and more widespread.

FDA Finds Salmonella Strain At Second Mexican Farm

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 08.07.2008 | Home


WASHINGTON — The salmonella strain linked to a nationwide outbreak has been found in irrigation water and in a sample from a batch of serrano pe...

Salmonella: Jalapenos, Probably Not Tomatoes, At Fault

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business


WASHINGTON — Government inspectors finally have a big clue in the nationwide salmonella outbreak: They found the same bacteria strain on a singl...

Salmonella Outbreak Linked To Peppers

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 07.17.2008 | Living


WASHINGTON — More than 1,000 people now have become ill from salmonella initially linked to raw tomatoes, a sobering milestone Wednesday that ma...

Salmonella Investigators Focus On Jalapenos

Baltimore Sun | Jonathan D. Rockoff | Posted 07.13.2008 | Business


Investigators are seeing more signs that the salmonella outbreak blamed on tomatoes might have been caused by tainted jalapeno peppers and have begun ...

Dobbs: Impeach Bush Over Tomatoes

Huffington Post | Posted 06.28.2008 | Media


Thursday night, Lou Dobbs called for George Bush's impeachment over his mismanagement of the Food and Drug Administration which has, in Dobbs' view, u...

CDC: Salmonella-tainted tomato illnesses reach 228

AP | LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 06.20.2008 | Business


WASHINGTON — The toll from salmonella-tainted tomatoes jumped to 228 illnesses Thursday as the government learned of five dozen previously unkno...

Salmonella In Tomatoes: It Wasn't California Or Florida

Posted 06.19.2008 | Business


Tomatoes grown in California and Florida are safe to eat, according to U.S. health officials investigating a salmonella outbreak that has sickened 167...

McDonald's Stops Serving Tomatoes After Salmonella Outbreak

AP | MEGAN K. SCOTT | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business


A salmonella outbreak linked to raw tomatoes serves as a reminder to take extra care with summer fruits and vegetables. More than 20 people have been ...

Salmonella In Tomatoes Causing Food Poisoning In 16 States

AP | MATT MYGATT | Posted 06.16.2008 | Living


ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has spread to 16 states, federal health officials said Saturday....