Articles Tagged with ''salmonella''

California poultry producer Foster Farms has issued a product recall after an investigation by USDA and CDC linked the company’s chicken to an ongoing outbreak of an antibiotic-resistant strain of salmonella.

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a warning concerning chia powder, alerting consumers about an ongoing Salmonella outbreak associated with the product.

Canadian health agencies and officials are collaborating to investigate a series of salmonella infections linked to consumption of dried sprouted chia seed powder.

A June 10, 2011 report on Deutsche Welle states “bean sprouts are the likely source of an E. coli outbreak in Germany that has killed 31 people and made nearly 3,000 ill since May [2011].” This information was attributed to Reinhard Burger, president of Germany’s federal infectious disease laboratory, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI).