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Deadly Listeria Cheese Outbreak began in 2014

Bill Marler

Illnesses started on dates ranging from June 15, 2014, to December 10, 2023. Among people who remembered specific brands, three people who got sick between 2014 and 2022 reported Don Francisco brand queso fresco or cotija. WGS showed that bacteria from sick people’s samples from 2014 to present are closely related genetically.

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Deadly outbreak of Listeria infections linked to cheese began in 2014; new patients identified

Food Safety News

The outbreak began in 2014 with the most recent patient having become sick in December 2023. Among people who remembered specific brands, three people who got sick between 2014 and 2022 reported Don Francisco brand queso fresco or cotija. This suggests that people in this outbreak got sick from the same food. On Monday, Feb.

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Is Environmental Sampling Sufficient for Food Safety?

Food Quality & Safety

In October 2019, the Food Safety and Operating Committee of the Innovation Center for U.S. Will a good pathogen environmental monitoring program (PEMP) sufficiently and consistently ensure product safety and a high level of product quality? 2021;150:110754; Comp Rev Food Sci Food Saf. 2014; 13:18-33).

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NY cheese manufacturer pleads guilty for adulterated product linked to deadly Listeria outbreak

Food Safety News

Following an investigation by the FDA’s Office of Criminal Investigations, the misdemeanor charge of Introducing Adulterated Food into Interstate Commerce was filed on Jan. In pleading guilty, Vulto and Vulto Creamery admitted that between December 2014 and March 2017, they caused the shipment of adulterated cheese in interstate commerce.

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Milestones in Food Safety: 1993-1999

Food Quality & Safety

Editor’s note: As Food Quality & Safety celebrates 30 years of publication, we think it’s fitting to examine the major food safety events of the period and to highlight the extraordinary efforts to make food safer over the last three decades. It was a defining moment in food safety history.”

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EU to tighten rules on use of nitrites and nitrates as additives

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Based on a previous scientific assessment by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), the limits were endorsed by EU member states. It can also enter the food chain as an environmental contaminant in water. Some groups, such as Foodwatch France, had called for a ban on the use of added nitrites and nitrates in food.

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More food products with Rizo-Lopez Cheese recalled due to Listeria illnesses and deaths – Marler Clark retained by victims

Bill Marler

Illnesses started on dates ranging from June 15, 2014, to December 10, 2023. Among people who remembered specific brands, three people who got sick between 2014 and 2022 reported Don Francisco brand queso fresco or cotija. WGS showed that bacteria from sick people’s samples from 2014 to present are closely related genetically.

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