Food Safety News - February 16, 2018 Gravy Train, Ol’ Roy, other brands recalled for euthanasia drug

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Gravy Train, Ol' Roy, other brands recalled for euthanasia drug

By Phyllis Entis

The J.M. Smucker Co. has voluntarily withdrawn certain shipments of 27 different pet food products following media reports of pentobarbital contamination in some of its Gravy Train dog food. Pentobarbital is a tranquilizer that is often used as a euthanizing agent to put down sick or fatally injured animals. A consumer-level product recall has not... Continue Reading

(Listeria, South Africa)

By Kelsey M. Mackin

The biggest listeriosis outbreak to date in the world, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) is asking victims in South Africa to list everything they can remember eating in the past month with the hopes of identifying a source. Of the 872 confirmed cases, 164 people have died, 43 percent of which were babies less than a month old. “Given the scale of our mystery outbreak,... Continue Reading

Peanut butter defendants get more time for rehearing filing

By Dan Flynn

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has approved a motion giving more time for the Peanut Corporation of America criminal defendants to file petitions for rehearing and rehearing en banc. The new deadline for the filings is March 13. The circuit court on Jan. 23 upheld all of the district court’s decisions... Continue Reading

Familiar call goes out in Arkansas for those who ate at local Taco Bell

By News Desk

Stop us if you heard this one before. A person infected with hepatitis A goes to work in the food and beverage industry. He or she provides customer service until a test comes back positive for Hep A. Health officials then recommend everyone who served during the period the infected worker was on duty get... Continue Reading

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