Three More Children Sickened by Hartmann’s Raw Milk Three more children, one of them an infant, have been sickened by E. coli O157:H7 linked to raw milk from Hartmann Dairy Farms in Gibbon, Minnesota.  The new cases bring the total number of victims to 8, mostly in Hennepin County.  The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) [...]

The superstar investigators at the Minnesota Department of Health have once again cracked the source of another E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. Minnesota state health officials have linked three cases of E. coli O157:H7 illness with raw milk from a dairy farm in Gibbon, Minn.  The Minnesota Department of Health urges anyone who may have recently [...]

Beltex Corporation, a Fort Worth, Texas, establishment, has recalled  135,500 pounds of beef trim products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The following products are subject to recall: Various pound boxes of “FRONTIER MEATS BEEF BONELESS NAVEL” Various pound boxes [...]

Huntington Meat Packing Inc., located in Montebello, California, has recalled approximately 864,000 pounds (432 tons) of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The problem was discovered during a Food Safety Assessment (FSA) by FSIS personnel.  The FSA led to the [...]

Adams Farm Slaughterhouse, LLC.,  located in Athol, Massachusetts, has recalled approximately 2,574 pounds of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. This beef recall was initiated after the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (MDPH) confirmed a positive ground beef [...]

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released the latest data on the national E. coli O157:H7 outbreak tied to National Steak and Poultry beef products.  As of 5:00 PM EDT, Monday, January 4, 2010, the CDC had identified 21 persons infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 in 16 states.  The number [...]

The Houston-based law firm of Simon & Luke has called upon National Steak and Poultry to release critical information related to the recent E. coli beef recall.  Thus far, National Steak and Poultry has remained silent as to where the contaminated beef was shipped and sold, despite illnesses in 6 states tied to the contaminated [...]

National Steak and Poultry (NSP) has just issued this statement on its website about the beef recall that has been tied to a rash of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses in 6 states: Based on epidemiological evidence, provided to us by FSIS, some of our products could potentially be implicated in an outbreak. Therefore, as a [...]

National Steak and Poultry, an Owasso, Okla., establishment, has recalled 248,000 pounds of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. FSIS became aware of the problem during the course of an investigation of a cluster of E. coli O157:H7 [...]

BREAKING NEWS – Several state health departments, the CDC, and the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) are investigating a multi-state outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 which has led to the deaths of two American citizens. On October 31, 2009, the FSIS issued a notice about a recall of 545,699 [...]