Penn State Food Safety Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

FDA issued a Warning Letter after an investigation "conducted as a follow-up to a Reportable Food Registry (RFR) report regarding suspected monensin poisoning from a medicated feed that resulted in numerous cattle deaths". A sample of your medicated cattle feed labeled as “(b)(4)” for beef cattle was collected by FDA on January 27, 2023.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 14, 2019

Product traceback efforts by local health jurisdictions, state health departments, and FDA could not identify a single product lot, processor, or farm as the source of the entire outbreak. FDA, CDC and state partners conducted an EA in the growing region, which consisted of farms in Imperial County, CA and Yuma County, AZ.

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K-12 Correctional Facility FDA Food Safety 130

Bill Marler

JANUARY 4, 2021

As far back as September 1998, FDA issued a warning against sprouts urging: Children, pregnant women and the elderly should not eat alfalfa sprouts until growers find a way to reduce the risk of a potentially deadly bacteria that infects some sprouts, the Food and Drug Administration said this week. Salmonella serotype I 4,[5],12:i:-.

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Bill Marler

JANUARY 20, 2022

The FDA and state and local regulatory officials traced the romaine lettuce to 23 farms and 36 fields in the Yuma growing region. The FDA, along with CDC and state partners, started an environmental assessment in the Yuma growing region and collected samples of water, soil, and manure. WGS showed that the E. coli O157:H7. Multistate.

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K-12 FDA Nursing Home Food Safety 258

Bill Marler

APRIL 9, 2022

At 12:30 AM on April 20, 2018, Jonathan Matyac, RN inserted a second, small 22g peripheral IV catheter into Makayla’s right hand, requiring two attempts, and “saline locked” it for future use. The 12-French was what the ICU requested for her dialysis. Under fluoroscopy, I dilated the track over the wire up to a size 12-French.

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