Bill Marler

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The FDA says it’s conducting an inspection of that facility. For more information, please visit CDC’s page to review their case reporting methodology and findings. The pouches found to be contaminated were sold under three brands — Weis, WanaBana and Schnucks — that are all linked to a manufacturing facility in Ecuador.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has opened a request for information about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in seafood.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 11, 2021

There is an ongoing need for coordination of outbreak response within the FDA and with other federal and state agencies that touch on food safety.There is clearly an ongoing need to more effectively coordinated the multiple acronyms that make up governmental food safety responses at the federal, state, and local levels.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

The FDA is reporting today for the first time an active investigation to a Listeria Outbreak that has sickened 20. The FDA continues to investigate a Salmonella Thompson outbreak that has sickened 93. Of 214 people with information available, 66 (31%) have been hospitalized and no deaths have been reported.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

“HACCP: A systematic approach to the identification, evaluation, and control of food safety hazards.” – So says the FDA. This is the latest step in the agency’s implementation of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), and it proposes to replace some of the existing requirements for agricultural water in the Produce Safety Rule (PSR).

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JULY 14, 2022

Here is the latest from the FDA: Case Counts. Estimate based on Consumer Complaint and CAERs reports received by the FDA. Thank you also providing leftover product to both the lab we are using and the FDA as we search for the common contaminate that is causing these common symptoms. Total Adverse Illness Events: 277*.

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JANUARY 6, 2024

The food industry as a whole and the FDA should be embarrassed and actually do something to make sure that something like this never happens again. Updates about the investigation can be found on the FDA’s website, Investigation of Elevated Lead Levels: Cinnamon Applesauce Pouches (November 2023) | FDA.

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JUNE 30, 2022

The FDA, along with CDC and state and local partners, is investigating consumer complaints of gastrointestinal illness and abnormal liver function that may be attributable to eating Daily Harvest French Lentil & Leek Crumbles frozen product. FDA’s investigation is ongoing, and more information will be provided as it becomes available.

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DECEMBER 13, 2023

The FDA’s proposed reorganization package includes new updates that not only shift how the agency’s food and field work is conducted, but also impacts a number of additional FDA offices outside of these programs.

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Bill Marler

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

From the FDA: Although you stated that corrective actions were implemented following the 2019 and 2012 outbreaks, you have not provided FDA with any information demonstrating long-term, sustainable corrections have been implemented throughout your organization to prevent this violation from recurring in the future. Multistate E.

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JULY 12, 2022

We have asked all to contact the FDA, and many have offered leftover product (opened and unopened) to test. Where the FDA has not offered to test, we are testing. We will provide those test results to the FDA and Daily Harvest. FDA, time to update your chart. Hospitalizations: 42. Last illness onset: June 21, 2022.

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JUNE 22, 2022

Today the FDA added two new Salmonella Outbreaks that have sickened 53 to its investigation chart. No other information – type of product or states of illness were added. Three other outbreaks – 2 Listeria and 1 E. coli O157:H7 (sickening a total of 41) are also listed as products not identified.

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Modern Restaurant Management

MARCH 13, 2023

In the waning days of 2022, FDA issued an updated Food Code with several important updates. FDA is responsible for more than a quarter of the U.S. Generally speaking, FDA continues to leave a wide range of discretion to food service providers. economy, and the Food Code impacts virtually every American. goes uneaten.

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Bill Marler

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

According to Food Safety News , the FDA is launching a new, temporary testing program for the romaine lettuce from commercial coolers in the Yuma, AZ, growing region. The FDA plans to begin collecting samples from commercial coolers in February and intends to continue sampling through the end of the romaine harvest season in Yuma.

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APRIL 28, 2022

House Appropriations Committee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) today submitted for the record a report acquired from a whistleblower who worked at the Abbott facility which produces infant formula recalled by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in February. The report was submitted to the FDA on October 20, 2021.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

I have a word for the FDA and CDC – “Transparency.”. Thanks to Food Safety News for reporting this out: The FDA has determined an outbreak of infections from Salmonella Typhimurium was from contaminated cantaloupe and declared its investigation over. . Additional information on this outbreak will be forthcoming,” according to the FDA.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

It is good that FDA and FSIS has been being more transparent on what is “cooking” in outbreak investigation. Here are the FDA Reports – Salmonella, Listeria, E. Of 13 people with ethnicity information available, 11 are of Eastern European background or speak Russian. One mystery Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak has sickened 254.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Now the question is will Congress and the FDA Commissioner take the recommendations to heart? FDA should increase the visibility and prominence of the Human Foods Program. . When compared to the medical products programs within FDA, the Human Foods Program continuously struggles for visibility and prominence.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

This just came up on the FDA Outbreak Table: What is Listeria? About Listeria – a complete online resource for Listeria information Family Health Guide About Listeria infection, or Listeriosis (pdf) Listeria News Listeria is a bacterium that causes a serious infection called listeriosis. Listeria bacteria are most found in raw foods.

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Bill Marler

JULY 28, 2022

The FDA, along with CDC and state and local partners, is investigating consumer complaints of gastrointestinal illness and abnormal liver function that may be attributable to eating Daily Harvest French Lentil & Leek Crumbles frozen product. FDA’s investigation is ongoing, and more information will be provided as it becomes available.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods, provided insight into the work of the Human Foods Program and how budgetary constraints are affecting its work. In an October 31 webinar, Jim Jones, U.S.

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APRIL 30, 2022

How confident should we feel with this waring from the FDA: “those seeking access [to the formula] should consult with their healthcare provider in considering whether the benefit of consuming such product outweighs the potential risk of bacterial infection in the user’s particular circumstances.”.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Product Distribution: Nationwide*Estimate based on Consumer Complaint and CAERs reports received by the FDA. As of October 21, 2022, the FDA has received 393 CAERS reports and Consumer Complaints related to this product. Consumers should not eat, sell, or serve recalled products.

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Bill Marler

MAY 14, 2022

This week the CDC declared an outbreak of Cronobacter infections over after the FDA received four complaints of Cronobacter infections in infants beginning on September 20, 2021, through January 11, 2022. Congress is set to hopefully get responses from the FDA to these questions in a hearing scheduled for May 25 th.

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DECEMBER 19, 2023

CDC FDA’s onsite inspection of the Austrofoods facility in Ecuador has ended. However, the FDA investigation of the elevated lead levels in recalled cinnamon applesauce pouches continues. The FDA has tested multiple products and, based on the current evidence, there are no further products being added to the recall at this time.

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Bill Marler

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The plea agreement and criminal information filed against Blue Bell allege that the company distributed ice cream products that were manufactured under insanitary conditions and contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes , in violation of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act.

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MAY 24, 2022

Now the House and Senate are set to ask questions of the Industry and FDA about how the outbreak happened and how it impacted the supply of infant formula. Here is a preview of the FDA’s position See full testimony – FDA Testimony ECOI Infant Formula 5.25.2022 final : TESTIMONY OF. CALIFF, M.D. COMMISSIONER OF FOOD AND DRUGS.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The FDA has confirmed that lead chromate is the source of lead and chromium in cinnamon applesauce marketed for children and imported from Ecuador. Leaders at the FDA continue to believe the contamination was intentional. FDA’s leading hypothesis remains that this was likely an act of economically motivated adulteration.”

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Bill Marler

AUGUST 11, 2022

Understandably, my nearly 350 clients sickened by Daily Harvest French Lentil + Leek Crumbles (and possibly additional products) are frightened and angered by the lack of information about the contaminant in the tara, that according the the FDA, has hospitalized over 100 with symptoms consistent with acute liver failure.

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Bill Marler

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The following quote is attributed to Frank Yiannas, FDA Deputy Commissioner for Food Policy and Response. The FDA, along with the CDC and our state and local partners, is working to investigate a multistate outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes infections. Additional Information: The U.S.

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Bill Marler

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The lead level detected in the FDA sample of WanaBana apple cinnamon puree is 2.18 parts per million (ppm), which, for context, is more than 200 times greater than the action level the FDA has proposed in draft guidance for fruit purees and similar products intended for babies and young children.

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Bill Marler

MAY 21, 2020

This is not meant as a criticism of my friends at the FDA or the good people at LGMA – California and Arizona – or at Western Growers, United Fresh or PMA. According to a report by the FDA released today, in November and December 2019 there were three E. But seriously, since leafy green E. coli O157:H7 foodborne illness outbreaks.

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Bill Marler

OCTOBER 20, 2022

FSN is the greatest source of consumer health information I have found. My family “pours over” the wealth of information you provide in each email we receive. The FDA has begun traceback and sample collection in an outbreak of E. The FDA has not reported how the product became contaminated. For that, we are thankful.

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Bill Marler

AUGUST 13, 2020

Please refer to the FSIS and FDA websites for the latest recall information. USDA-FSIS will update the public health alert as more information becomes available. Suppliers and distributors that repackage raw onions should clean and sanitize any surfaces and storage bins that may have come in contact with recalled onions.

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Bill Marler

OCTOBER 19, 2022

There is no dispute that Daily Harvest French Lentil + Leek Crumbles, with tara, caused a significant outbreak of acute liver failure according to both Daily Harvest and the FDA. Our investigation team will continue working with the FDA, the tara flour producer and others to help determine what specifically made people sick.”.

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Food Safety News

JANUARY 28, 2024

Business owners have 15 days to respond to FDA warning letters. Santa Monica, CA A California food firm with a facility in Maryland is on notice from the FDA for unsanitary storing of ingredients that could contaminate food products. After the inspection, FDA investigators issued a Form 483 (FDA-483), Inspectional Observations.

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Bill Marler

JUNE 23, 2022

According to the FDA, Daily Harvest has voluntarily recalled all French Lentil + Leek Crumbles due to consumer reports of gastrointestinal illness and potential liver function issues. . Samples were also provided to a small number of consumers.

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