FDA flexes muscles, mandates recall of kratom for Salmonella By News Desk  For the first time ever the FDA has ordered a company to recall products, with the dubious honor going to Triangle Pharmanaturals LLC. The Las Vegas company refused to pull its kratom products after state and federal tests showed Salmonella contamination. The recall order from the Food and Drug Administration comes amidst an ongoing outbreak... Continue Reading
South African agency 99.99 percent sure of Listeria source By Coral Beach  South Africa's public health officers say there is unequivocal evidence that polony from a Tiger Brands plant is to blame for the world's largest ever Listeria outbreak, stopping just short of accusing some elected officials of spinning propaganda in the company's favor. A statement Tuesday from South Africa's National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) did... Continue Reading
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The deaths of at least 78 newborns in the ongoing South African listeriosis outbreak has created one of those "teaching moments" about how especially dangerous the pathogen is to pregnant women. And the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is using the opportunity to warn Hispanic women that they need to pay special attention, not because... 
The Salt Lake County Health Department announced Tuesday that two county residents have died in Utah's ongoing hepatitis A outbreak. The first person died in January but had other health conditions and officials were waiting on tests to declare an official cause of death. The second person died in late March. Both were adults who... 
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