Spices USA recalls imported ground turmeric for excessive lead By News Desk  Spices USA Inc. of Hialeah, FL, is recalling 772 50-pound bags of Tasty Sawa Ground Turmeric because it contains elevated levels of lead. The company sells its products to distributors and re-packers, not directly to consumers. No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with this problem, according to Spices USA. Consumers are warned not... Continue Reading
Ready-to-eat, precooked bacon recalled because of Listeria By News Desk  About 170 pounds of ready-to-at bacon products that were shipped to Associated Foods retailers in Idaho and Utah are under recall because of possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. Daily's Premium Meats LLC of Salt Lake City initiated because of its internal food safety testing program, according to the recall notice posted Monday night by the... Continue Reading
Egg producer implicated in another Salmonella outbreak By Coral Beach  For the second time in 10 months, a cage-free egg production operation is closed as health officials announce a Salmonella outbreak linked to it and warn consumers and restaurants to not use its shell eggs. Good Earth Egg Co. is the likely source of the outbreak, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported... Continue Reading
Feds say Salmonella outbreak linked to sprouts appears over By Cathy Siegner  A recent multistate outbreak of Salmonella Reading and Salmonella Abony infections linked to alfalfa sprouts appears to be over, according to a final update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The outbreak sickened 36 people from nine states and hospitalized seven of them. No related deaths were reported. Illnesses started on dates ranging... Continue Reading
Illness claims fact checked as Texas raw milk dispute heats up By News Desk  Texas is going through a dust-up, mostly over who can deliver raw milk. State law says raw milk dairies can transport raw milk purchases to a pickup location. At issue is whether an agent can carry out that delivery. PolitiFact Texas, the fact-checking service sponsored by the Austin American-Statesman, Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News,... Continue Reading
Some of Maine's shellfish off limits because of temporary toxin By News Desk  Until further notice, certain portions of Maine's coastline are closed to shellfish harvesting — and recently harvested clams and mussels are not to be consumed — because a naturally occurring algae is present in dangerously high levels. Maine's Department of Marine Resources posted the so-called harvest recalls Friday after tests showed domoic acid at levels... Continue Reading
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Graceleigh Inc. of Newport Beach, CA, doing business as Sammy's Milk, is recalling all lots of Sammy's Milk Baby Food because of the possible presence of Cronobacter, a bacteria that can cause severe and sometimes fatal blood infections or meningitis in infants, and because it may not provide adequate nutritional levels of iron. Sammy's Milk... 
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