Union International Food Co. is recalling some of it’s Lian How and Uncle Chen’s brand spices due to potential Salmonella contamination. According to the FDA press release,Officials investigating a multi-state Salmonella outbreak isolated Salmonella from an open container of Lian How White Pepper, which was found at a restaurant where some outbreak victims ate

Amy and I are fortunate we get to spend most of our time with baby Sorenne. Both of us do most of our work at home, Katie’s been a great help, and we have a student babysitter come to the house twice a week for a total of five hours.If we were in a different situation and had to use a day care, I’d be there checking out the food safety

Back to Nature Foods Co., a Wisconsin firm owned by Kraft Foods Inc., issued a nationwide recall Wednesday on its Nantucket Blend trail mix because some of the pistachio nuts tested positive for Salmonella.And the pistachios came from a supplier to the Georgia Nut Company, which found the Salmonella through its own testing

David Mackay doesn’t look like Kevin McDonald of Kids in the Hall fame.But Kellogg’s CEO Mackay did an outstanding impersonation of McDonald’s, “How the hell should I know” skit (below) in front of a U.S. Congressional committee today.“When you look at Kellogg, we have 3,000 ingredients and 1,000 suppliers, I think it’s common industry practice to use a third party

Kellogg CEO David Mackay is planning to grunt out a giant turd in Washington tomorrow.To see how his assertions would be, uh, swallowed, Mackay’s comments were leaked to an uncritical press this afternoon, just like in the financial meltdown. Both AP and Reuters proclaimed that Kellogg’s “is urging lawmakers to overhaul the nation's food safety system

Miss Cyrus’s Disney Hannah Montana peanut chocolate granola bars have been recalled due to potential Salmonella contamination. The granola bars contain peanut products that have been recalled in the US and Canada by Peanut Corp. of America.  Companies began recalling products linked to the outbreak back in January, so what took the Disney crew so long?Picture from perezhilton

KGAN reports that the outbreak linked to SunSprout Enterprises is now at 76 confirmed cases in Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and Kansas (Missouri is missing from the list -- although has been mentioned by other sources).Health officials have confirmed at least 76 cases of salmonella in four states as part of an outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts

WOWT TV in Omaha and AP are reporting that an outbreak of Salmonella in Nebraska has been linked to a local fresh sprouts producer.Nebraska Health and Human Services says the initial testing links the outbreak to source-alfalfa sprouts from a local grower, CW Sprouts in Omaha.if (self['plpm'] && plpm['Mid-Story Ad']) document

Dlisted reports that Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson were on Germany's Wetten Dass... to promote that movie about a dead dog when they had to eat a doggy biscuit after losing a bet. People magazine says that the bet was that a woman claimed she could correctly identity her team of Husky dogs just from listening to them drink soup

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution asks an important question beyond how did the salmonella get into PCA's Blakely, Georgia Plant -- how did the 2007 Peter Pan outbreak strain get into the PCA plant?From the AJC article:Experts at the FDA and the CDC said they are intrigued by an unusual clue.Two years ago the ConAgra plant in Sylvester launched a nationwide recall of Peter Pan peanut butter after consumers were sickened by a less common strain of the bacteria, called Salmonella Tennessee