Archive for June, 2008

What if the CDC never finds the cause or culprit for the largest salmonella outbreak in U.S. history?

What if tomatoes are not the food poisoning culprit?

Although the tomato hunt has been going on for two months, there is…

Did you know that Customs and Border Protection officers take less than a minute per truck to determine which products enter the United States and find their way into grocery stores and restaurants?

The volume of imported goods and the…

I was looking for some red, white, and blue recipes (stay tuned they will come tomorrow), I found a website talking about how blue foods (other than blueberries) make us lose our appetites.

Think about it…other than blueberries, what food…

In a nutshell: What can be more disgusting than eating a real head from a cow? But according to this website, it makes for a delicious breakfast of barbacoa.

Beltex Corporation, doing business as Frontier Meats, a Fort Worth,…

In a nutshell, some frozen iced pops distributed by Wal-Mart in Calif. and Ariz. may have small pieces of plastic in it which happened when the equipment broke.

June 18, 2008–-Matterhorn Group Inc is recalling certain date coded product of…

In a nutshell: Soups on! Some people may be surprised when they open their can of chicken noodle soup that it’s actually cream of celery soup.

June 24, 2008 — Bay Valley Foods is recalling five cases (24 cans per case)…

In a nutshell: Italian cheese may have food poisoning; the cheese was distributed in northern and southern Calif.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — June 23, 2008 — Fresca Italia of Brisbane, Calif. is recalling Burrata, a type of cheese, because…

Tomato salmonella scare has been linked to farms in Mexico and Florida but the actual bacteria is still a mystery.

An associate for the FDA said that the raw roma tomatoes, raw plum tomatoes, and raw round tomatoes may not…

I have always thought that next to the gift bag, the salad in a bag was a marvelous concept.

Think about it: Everything you need at your finger tips, you don’t even have to wash the lettuce unless you’re a…

So far there have been 383 documented cases for tomato salmonella. The earliest known victim was on April 10.

Tomatoes are difficult to trace because they’re sold without tags and are usually eaten by the time anyone gets sick.…