RASFF-Salmonella (present /25g) in dog chew from Poland in Germany
RASFF-Salmonella enterica ser. Isangi (present /25g) in brewer’s yeast with raw material from Poland in Germany
RASFF-Salmonella enterica ser. Tennessee (presence /25g) in soybean meal from Russia in Germany
RASFF-Salmonella enterica ser. Tennessee (present /25g) in rapeseed meal from Austria in Austria
Posted in Animal Feed, Recall, Salmonella, Uncategorized
WASHINGTON, July 18, 2018 – Win Opportunity Knocks, doing business as Ottomanelli Wholesale Meats Inc., a St. Petersburg, Fla. establishment, is recalling approximately 6,020 pounds of fresh and frozen, raw ground beef products that may be contaminated with Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O45, O103 and O145, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The fresh and frozen, raw ground beef products were produced from June 18, 2018 through July 11, 2018. The following products are subject to recall: [View Labels (PDF only)]
The products subject to recall bear establishment number “EST. 11167” inside the USDA mark of inspection. The items were distributed for institutional use in Florida.
The problem was discovered when FSIS was notified that the product was tested by the establishment and found positive for E. coli under their sampling program.
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Antimicrobial resistant pathogens crowdsource friendly bacteria to survive in immune cells and cause disease, a new study by the University of Sheffield has revealed.
Scientists have discovered the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus (S.aureus), uses benign bacteria present in the skin to initiate infection.
Known commonly as its infamous antimicrobial resistant form MRSA (meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), the ground-breaking research discovered that by using the other bacteria present on the skin, the pathogen can survive the mechanisms our immune system deploys to destroy it.
The findings, published today (16 July 2018) in Nature Microbiology, give scientists a new insight into the mechanisms of the so-called superbug, which is hard to treat due to its resistance to several widely used antibiotics.
Posted in Research, Staphylococcus aureus, Uncategorized
Operators of institutional kitchens in Florida are being urged to check their refrigerators and freezers for fresh and frozen raw ground beef products because the producer found E. coli in the meat.
Win Opportunity Knocks, doing business as Ottomanelli Wholesale Meats Inc. in St. Petersburg, FL, reported the ground beef products could be contaminated with three different E. coli serotypes, O45, O130 and O145, according to a recall notice posted July 18.
The notice on the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS website, did not indicate what type of institutions received the recalled beef. The notice also did not say whether there have been any reported or confirmed illnesses in relation to the recalled products.
This short document is based on the content of the GFSI full position paper “a culture of food safety”. It includes the key definitions and a short description of the dimensions and critical components of food safety culture developed in the full paper. This may herefore be a helpful aide-memoire.
Crucially, the full paper places emphasis on:
1. The essential role of leaders and managers throughout an organisation, from CEO to farm, field and shop floor supervisors, from local ‘Mom and Pop’ grocery stores to large franchise restaurant organisations.
2. Why regular communication, education, metrics, teamwork and personal accountability are vital to advancing a food safety culture.
3. How learned skills including adaptability and hazard awareness move important safe food practices beyond a theoretical conversation to live in “real time.”
Posted in Food Microbiology, Food Safety, Research, Uncategorized
Flowers Foods, Inc. (FLO) is voluntarily recalling Mrs. Freshley’s and other brands Of Swiss Rolls and Captain John Derst’s Old Fashioned Bread due to the potential presence of Salmonella in an ingredient, whey powder. No illnesses have been reported in connection with the recalled items, the company noted.
The recalled products sold under the brand names Mrs. Freshley’s, Food Lion, H-E-B, Baker’s Treat, Market Square, and Great Value were distributed nationwide, and Captain John Derst’s Old Fashioned Bread was distributed in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina.
KRON report that a Utah couple says their 5-month-old son is the state’s only known person infected with salmonella in a nationwide outbreak tied to Kellogg’s Honey Smacks cereal–and they are struggling to comprehend how it happened.
Andy Lyons and his parents visited relatives that had the cereal at their house.
Nobody else, though, has experienced symptoms since, and they don’t get how their child became sick.
They’re not sure how he got it since he doesn’t even eat solid food yet.
But doctors say his salmonella is linked to the honey smacks outbreak.
American Society of Microbiology 
The ecology of Escherichia coli O157:H7 is not well understood. The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence of and characterize E. coli O157:H7 associated with houseflies (HF). Musca domestica L. HF (n = 3,440) were collected from two sites on a cattle farm over a 4-month period and processed individually for E. coli O157:H7 isolation and quantification. The prevalence of E. coli O157:H7 was 2.9 and 1.4% in HF collected from feed bunks and a cattle feed storage shed, respectively. E. coli O157:H7 counts ranged from 3.0 × 101 to 1.5 × 105 CFU among the positive HF. PCR analysis of the E. coli O157:H7 isolates revealed that 90.4, 99.2, 99.2, and 100% of them (n = 125) possessed the stx1, stx2, eaeA, and fliC genes, respectively. Large populations of HF on cattle farms may play a role in the dissemination of E. coli O157:H7 among animals and to the surrounding environment.
Posted in E.coli, E.coli O157, E.coli O157:H7, Uncategorized
The U.S. and Canada are among more than 100 countries potentially affected by a recall of frozen vegetables due to Listeria monocytogenes. An outbreak traced to the vegetables from Greenyard Frozen has sickened 47 people in five European countries. Nine people have died.
Greenyard, a producer of fresh, frozen and prepared fruits and vegetables linked to the outbreak, has estimated the cost of the recall at $35 million (€30 million). Company officials said that includes costs for the product, transportation, handling, storage, destruction, subcontracting, lower cost absorption of the factory, and loss of margin. The company is insured for recall costs and possible product liability damages.
Due to the scale of the situation, the European Commission and the International Food Safety Authorities Network (INFOSAN), which is managed by the Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization, are involved.
A spokesman for INFOSAN said 107 countries and territories received implicated products.
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After drinking cold drinks from a local shop, they complained of headache, vomiting and stomach disorder following which they were shifted to district hospital.
Eight members of a family, including two children, were admitted to a hospital for suspected food poisoning at a village in Shamli district, the police said today.
