UPDATE: Toronto bakery expands sliced deli meat recall for Listeria By News Desk  Oct. 5 update: The Tre Rose Bakery recall of sliced turkey and chicken products issued Sept. 28 has been updated to include beef and ham products and additional production dates. The additional information was identified during the Canadian Food Inspection Agency’s (CFIA) food safety investigation. There has been one reported illness associated with this investigation. The following... Continue Reading
Seminar asks: Do criminal prosecutions make food safer? By Dan Flynn  After a string of successful prosecutions of food industry managers and executives, the defense bar is getting ready to bite back. The teeth are showing in the title of an upcoming web seminar: "Do Criminal Prosecutions Make Food Safer? The Problem with Regulating Food Safety Through Criminalization." The seminar is being organized by the Washington... Continue Reading
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At least one case of E. coli O157:H7 in Brazos County, TX, is being investigated by local health officials, who don't yet know the source of the pathogen. The Brazos County Health Department says a solo patient, not an outbreak, is involved. E. coli O157:H7 is often a precursor to kidney failure and even death... 
About one in every four of the 288 people confirmed in Hawaii's ongoing Hepatitis A outbreak has had symptoms so severe that they’ve required hospitalization. The first person confirmed as part of the outbreak became ill on June 12, with the most recent victim having become sick on Sept. 28, according to Wednesday's weekly update... 
Editor’s note: The USDA posted this information Wednesday in anticipation of Hurricane Matthew. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service is issuing food safety recommendations for those who may be impacted by Hurricane Matthew. The National Hurricane Center expects that Category 3 Hurricane Matthew will affect Florida's Atlantic coast Thursday evening... 
