Salmonella Outbreak Triggers Custom Produce Cucumber Recall
The deadly cucumber Salmonella outbreak has triggered another cucumber recall. This one by Custom Produce Sales of Parlier, California. The recalled cucumbers were sold under the Fat Boy® label...
View ArticleTwo Dead in Cucumber Salmonella Outbreak
Two women have died in the multi-state outbreak of Salmonella Poona linked to cucumbers grown in Mexico. One was from Texas, the other from California. They were among the 341 people in 30 states who...
View ArticleCanadians Given More Cucumber Recall Info Than Americans
Same company. Same product. But in Canada, where Andrew & Williamson cucumbers are also being recalled, consumers got information they haven’t in the U.S. – a complete list of stores where the...
View ArticleCucumber Salmonella Outbreak Grows Again, 767 Sick
At least 767 people in 36 states are now part of the Salmonella outbreak linked to imported cucumbers. Since the last update on October 6, the outbreak has expanded to a new state, Florida, and 35 new...
View ArticleFDA Begins Testing Cucumbers and Hot Peppers
The FDA is ramping up testing of cucumbers and hot peppers, after six reports of food poisoning outbreaks linked to cucumbers from 1996 to this year. Those foods are eaten raw, and they are often...
View ArticleCDC Releases Info About Another Cucumber Salmonella Outbreak, 8 Months Later
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued information about a Salmonella Oslo outbreak linked to Persian cucumbers this week in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. But the outbreak...
View ArticleCucumber Salmonella Outbreak Over According to CDC
The Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak linked to imported cucumbers has ended, according to the CDC. A total of 84 people in 18 states were infected with the outbreak strain of the bacteria. Seventeen...
View ArticleLargest Multi-State Food Poisoning Outbreaks of 2013: #6
A Salmonella outbreak linked to cucumbers imported from Mexico was the sixth-largest multi-state food poisoning outbreak of 2013. The 18-state outbreak, which began in January and ended in April,...
View ArticleSecret Cucumber Salmonella Outbreak Sickened 275 in 2014
Did you get Salmonella from cucumbers you ate last summer? If so, you may be among the 275 people who were part of a 29-state outbreak that was never announced by the Centers for Disease Control and...
View ArticleE. coli on Jimmy John’s Cucumbers Sickened 9 in 2013
Cucumbers imported from Mexico were the source of a 2013 E.coli outbreak that sickened nine Jimmy John’s customers in the Denver area in 2013. It was the first time in the U.S. that an E. coli O157:H7...
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