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Food Poisoning Bulletin

Stella & Chewy’s was notified by the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development that some of their dog food tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes. The company is recalling five products for possible contamination as a precautionary measure. The product that tested positive for the pathogenic bacteria and the first recalled is Frozen Stella’s Super Beef Dinner Morsels for Dogs in 8.5 ounce packages, lot #165-15, UPC number 186011 001554 and Use by date 6/25/2016.

Launching its new festive food safety campaign, Food Standards Scotland (FSS), warns that over 500 people are admitted to hospital every year with serious food poisoning.

In total, 78 per cent of Scottish people don’t worry about getting food poisoning – despite 43,000 food poisoning infections, 5,800 GP visits and 500 hospital admissions across the country every year.

Belfast Telegraph

Environmental health officers are investigating a Belfast cooking course after 10 people suffered suspected food poisoning, leaving one man in hospital.

MeatInfo

Food Standards Scotland (FSS) has launched a cheeky safety campaign in an effort to reduce the number of people contracting food poisoning over the festive season.

The campaign features Santa Claus stricken by a bout of food poisoning. –

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The CDC, the FDA and public health officials in several states are investigating an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O26 (STEC O26) infections.  As of December 2, 2015, 52 people infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O26 have been reported from nine states. 20 ill people have been hospitalized.

Food Poisoning Bulletin

King County Public Health is reporting the third case of Listeria monocytogenes linked to the University of Washington Medical Center (UWMC). In December 2014, two patients drank milkshakes made from Snoqualmie ice cream that was recalled for Listeria contamination. On Wednesday, December 9, 2015, a third patient was sickened with the same strain of Listeria bacteria.

That patient drank a milkshake made in the same machine that produced the contaminated milkshakes last year. Samples of the ice cream that is now used to make milkshakes have tested negative for the pathogenic bacteria, but the facility’s ice cream machine tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes bacteria.

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The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets is warning consumers in Allegany County that raw milk from the Gerald E. Snyder Farm, may be contaminated with Listeria. Consumers who have purchased this milk should not drink it as Listeria can cause serious illness.

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The Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development is warning consumers that may have purchased any of the products listed below, produced by Lock Stock and Barrel Ranch of Onaway, Michigan, to dispose of all products immediately because they were manufactured without using the required controls for the safe production of processed foods. This potential problem was discovered by MDARD Inspectors with the Food & Dairy Division during the course of a routine food safety inspection.

Botulism Blog

Products under recall include the following:

•    Beef Vegetable Soup
•    Tomato Basil Soup
•    Bacon Cauliflower Soup
•    Mama Splans Medium Salsa
•    Mama Splans Hot Salsa
•    Sweet Salsa
•    Tomatillo Salsa
•    Mango Salsa
•    Peach Salsa
•    Dilly Beans
•    Pickled Beets
•    Pickled Carrots
•    Pickled Mushrooms
•    Pickled Asparagus
•    Pickled Cauliflower
•    Pickled Garlic
•    Bread & Butter Pickles
•    Sweet & Hot Pickles
•    Dill Pickles
•    Dill Relish
•    Bloody Mary Mix
•    Spaghetti Sauce

FSIS 

This is the fourth edition of the Compliance Guideline for Controlling Salmonella

and Campylobacter in Poultry. This update includes new recommendations regarding sanitation, lotting practices, pre-harvest practices, intervention use during slaughter and further processing, and using establishment sampling results to inform decisionmaking. Future editions will continue to reflect feedback received from all stakeholders.

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