Food Safety
Salmonella Infections Now Over 1000
The current salmonella outbreak which has been linked to certain types of raw tomatoes – red round, plum and Roma – has now affected over 1000 people. This makes it the worst food-borne outbreak in over ten years and now the Centers for Disease control and Prevention are urging people at high risk not to…
Read MoreSalmonella in New Hampshire
Health officials in New Hampshire have identified two more cases of Salmonella poisoning. This brings the total New Hampshire cases to three but fortunately none have required hospitalization and no deaths were reported. Public Health Director, Dr. Jose Montero, said the patients were from one to forty-three years old and got sick between May 31st…
Read MoreTomato Salmonella outbreak spreads to more states
This outbreak has spread to more states and is alleged to have possibly contributed to the death of a cancer patient in Texas. The tainted-tomato outbreak has spread to six more states, federal health officials said on Thursday, even as they acknowledged to lawmakers that they had yet to nail down major aspects of a…
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