Food Safety News - September 13, 2015 MD Testing Finds Listeria in Picnic Gourmet Cheese Spreads

MD Testing Finds Listeria in Picnic Gourmet Cheese Spreads By News Desk The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) is warning consumers not to eat products made by Picnic Gourmet Spreads because these products might be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The potentially contaminated products include Red Pepper Feta Cheese Spread, Moroccan Cilantro Cheese Spread, Tandoori Garlic Cheese Spread, Herbed Goat Cheese, Parmesan Cheese Spread, and Chipotle... Continue Reading Baby Spinach Recalled for Elevated Levels of Cadmium By News Desk California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is warning consumers not to eat a specific lot of organicgirl brand baby spinach after CDPH conducted tests found unacceptable levels of cadmium. Recent chemical analysis of this specific lot code of baby spinach determined that the product contained 1.90 parts per million of cadmium is more than ten times... Continue Reading DC Restaurant Closed After 20 Reports of Illness By News Desk At least four people are sick after eating at the D.C. restaurant, Fig & Olive, reports the Washington Post. The D.C. Department of Health has suspended operations at the restaurant while they try to determine the source of an outbreak that has hospitalized at least four people with symptoms similar to salmonella illness. The health... Continue Reading Custom Produce Cucumbers Connected to Salmonella Outbreak By News Desk Custom Produce Sales of Parlier, CA, is voluntarily recalling all cucumbers sold under the Fat Boy label starting Aug. 1, 2015, because they may be contaminated with Salmonella and are covered by an ongoing recall. Fat Boy cucumbers were produced in Baja California and distributed in the states of California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma and... Continue Reading Letter From the Editor: A 'Superfood' Controversy By Dan Flynn Dietary supplements — all those pills, powders, and liquid substances — have long existed in a kind of food safety twilight zone. Unlike drugs, supplements do not require the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval before going on the market, nor are the high standards being applied to food and even animal feed under the... Continue Reading More Food Safety News Past Food Safety News Articles Food Industry Events Food Safety News Copyright 2015 Marler Clark LLP, PS. All rights reserved. Marler Clark LLP, PS, 1301 2nd Avenue Suite 2800 Seattle WA 98101 USA Change your address or unsubscribe.

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