foodborne-illness
4 stories tagged "foodborne-illness"
Months After the FDA Recalled These Frozen Clams, No One Can Say Which Ecuadorian Waters Contaminated Them
Thirty-seven people across four states, thirty of them hospitalized, all linked to La Serranita black-shell clams imported frozen from Ecuador. The source waters are still under investigation.
Nutrition & FoodSprouts Have Poisoned Thousands for a Quarter Century. The Wellness World Still Eats Them Raw.
Salmonella from Idaho broccoli sprouts has sickened 22 across four states, one more entry in a tally that logged 53 sprout outbreaks in two decades. The raw-is-best dogma is what keeps them coming.
Infectious DiseaseMexican Jalapeños Sickened 1,400 Americans in 2008. Eighteen Years Later, a Different Farm and the Same Import Gap Did It Again.
Salmonella Javiana in jalapeños from Sinaloa has sickened 345 people across 27 states. It is the second time in eighteen years that imported Mexican peppers have done this, and the FDA still physically inspects only about 1 to 2 percent of the food crossing the border.
Nutrition & FoodWHO Tripled the Foodborne Death Toll. The Food Didn't Get Deadlier.
WHO's new estimate says unsafe food kills 1.5 million people a year, more than triple its 2015 figure, even as it admits the burden has fallen. The jump is an accounting change, not an epidemic.