Food & Beverage Litigation & Regulatory Update

Tag: pathogen

  • FDA Announces Two Public Meetings to Discuss Salmonella Prevention in Shell Eggs

    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced two public meetings to discuss the prevention of Salmonella enteritidis (SE) during the production, storage and transportation of shell eggs. Slated for September 30, 2009, in Chicago, Illinois, and November 5, 2009, in Atlanta, Georgia, the meetings will explain an FDA final rule that requires shell egg…

  • California Court Rules Against Insurer over Losses from Spinach Contamination Outbreak

    A California trial court has determined that the insurer of the nation’s largest seller of bagged fresh spinach must pay for its losses from the 2006 nationwide E. coli outbreak that led to a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory against eating any fresh spinach. Fresh Express, Inc. v. Beazley Syndicate 2623/623 at Lloyd’s, No. M88545…

  • Karen Kaplan, “The Science of Salmonella,” The Los Angeles Times, August 10, 2009

    “This is Salmonella’s world. We’re just living in it,” claims science writer Karen Kaplan of The Los Angeles Times in this article exploring the evolution of the deadly bug responsible for recent pistachio and peanut recalls. “The bacterium appeared on the planet millions of years before humans, and scientists are certain it will outlast us too.…

  • Canadian Food Safety Agency Warns Public About Maple Leaf Foods Frankfurters

    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a warning and reported the voluntary recall of frankfurters and wieners manufactured by Maple Leaf Foods, the company whose Listeria-tainted meat products in 2008 purportedly sickened thousands across Canada and were apparently ruled a “contributing cause” in the deaths of 22. According to the agency, the processed meat…

  • Independent Investigator Disparages Canada’s Response to 2008 Listeria Outbreak

    A new report by an independent investigator is harshly critical of Canada’s food safety system with respect to the 2008 Listeria outbreak linked to the deaths of 22 people. Sheila Weatherill, a nurse and health executive who led the federally appointed investigation, said the system was caught unprepared and acted without urgency, citing a void…

  • Salmonella-Tainted Milk Powder and Related Products Recalled

    A Plainview, Minnesota, milk cooperative has reportedly recalled two years’ worth of food products, including instant non-fat dried milk, whey protein, and fruit stabilizers and gums for fear that they are contaminated with Salmonella. While no illnesses have apparently been linked to the products, which are sold to food manufacturers and distributors only, the recall has…

  • Cookie-Dough Contamination Remains in the News; E. Coli Found at Plant

    According to news sources, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors have found E. coli in a package of cookie dough at Nestlé USA’s plant in Danville, Virginia. The strain did not, however, match the DNA fingerprint of the strain purportedly linked to the illnesses of some 72 people in 30 states. FDA’s David Acheson, assistant commissioner…

  • CDC Researchers Identify Reston Ebolavirus in Pigs

    Researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have reportedly identified a strain of Reston ebolavirus (REBOV) in pigs for the first time, raising questions about the ability of the virus to mutate and cause illness in humans. First reported in the July 3, 2009, issue of Science, the results apparently showed…