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Food Safety News
PMA Chief Warns Members About Food Safety
By News Desk
One of the nation's largest fresh fruit and vegetable organizations, the Produce Marketing Association, just wrapped up its annual "Fresh Summit" in Atlanta with a warning from its chief executive…
Food Safety News
Q Fever in the Pacific Northwest
By News Desk
An outbreak of Q fever, carried by domestic goats, infected about 20 people in Montana and Washington state last spring, the federal Centers for Disease Control reported in its October…
Listeria Blog
25 State Listeria Cantaloupe Outbreak Sickens 123 and Kills 25
As of 9am EDT on October 17, 2011, a total of 123 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported to CDC from…
Listeria Blog
New York Counts One Listeria Cantaloupe Death
Health officials in western New York say a person has died of listeria infection, the first death in the state linked to tainted cantaloupes from Colorado. The Ontario County Public…
Food Safety News
100 Infected, 18 Dead; Listeria Outbreak Continues
By Dan Flynn
The outbreak of listeriosis linked to whole Rocky Ford-brand cantaloupes from Colorado's Jensen Farms is now more than six times larger than it was when the first public warnings about…
Food Poison Journal
AP Profiles 5 Marler Clark clients who filed Cantaloupe Listeria Lawsuits
By Bill Marler
DAN ELLIOTT, Associated Press Charles Palmer is a hardy 71-year-old former Marine and Vietnam veteran who trains cockatiels to say "Semper Fi" and "Whatcha doin', man?" He also loves fruit…
Listeria Blog
New Mexico Counts Fifth Listeria Cantaloupe Death
The New Mexico Department of Health Thursday confirmed a fifth death from the multi-state Listeriosis outbreak linked to Jensen Farms' Rocky Ford cantaloupes. Eight others have been hospitalized with Listeria…
Marler Blog
Jensen Farms Frontera Listeria Outbreak – Now Third Most Deadly
By Bill Marler
At 72 sickened with 13 deaths the Jensen Farms Frontera Listeria Outbreak has moved into third place in the United States most deadly foodborne illness outbreaks. The numbers of ill…
Food Poison Journal
Prior Foodpoisoning Outbreaks in Nebraska from Listeria Lawyers and Attorneys
By Dave Babcock
Nebraska is one of 14 states currently listed by the CDC as having residents that have been sickened with Listeria by cantaloupe from Jensen Farms and Frontera Produce. The current numbers, likely…
Listeria Blog
Listeria and Cantaloupe – Eleven people dead – 68 infected in 16 states.
Here is Phyllis Entis and my numbers of 11 dead with 68 infected differ a bit from the CDC's 55 ill with 8 deaths. Here is the count: • California:-…