The FDA announced on its website that Sunshine Mills, based in the rural north Alabama town of Red Bay, has issued a voluntary recall of dog food products due to potentially unacceptable levels of Aflatoxin. Aflatoxin is a naturally occurring mold by-product from the growth of Aspergillus flavus and can be harmful to pets if consumed in significant quantities. Aflatoxin levels above the acceptable limit were discovered by routine sampling performed by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. No illnesses have been reported. Family Pet Meaty Cuts beef chicken & cheese flavors premium dog food, Heartland Farms grilled favorites beef chicken & cheese flavor, and Paws Happy Life butcher’s choice dog food has been affected by the recall. The affected products were distributed in retail stores nationally. @ https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/sunshine-mills-inc-issues-voluntary-recall-certain-dog-food-products-due-potentially-elevated-levels?utm_campaign=Sunshine%20Mills%2C%20Inc.%20Issues%20Voluntary%20Recall%20of%20Certain%20Dog%20Food%20Products&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua
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Sunshine Mills, Inc. is issuing a voluntary recall of certain dog food products due to levels of Aflatoxin that are potentially above the acceptable limit. Aflatoxin is a naturally occurring mold by-product from the growth of Aspergillus flavus and can be harmful to pets if consumed in significant
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Giant Food grocery stores announced that it recalled its squash noodle medley out of an “abundance of caution” after a sample of the product sold in mid to late August tested positive for Listeria by its supplier. The recall is related to a product with UPC # 68826718585. The recalled squash noodle medley was sold in Giant stores between Aug. 8 and Aug. 19, 2020, and is now past its Aug. 19 “best enjoyed by” date. However, a news release from the company indicated that some consumers might have frozen packages of the medley. Giant Food Grocery is a local grocery store with headquarters in Landover, Maryland. It operates 164 supermarkets in D.C., Maryland, Virginia, and Delaware. @ https://sauconsource.com/2020/09/02/giant-recalls-squash-noodle-medley-over-listeria-concerns/#:~:text=Giant%20said%20it%20has%20recalled,who%20develop%20listeriosis%20from%20it
If you purchased a medley of squash noodles from a Giant food store in mid to late August and haven’t eaten them yet, you hopefully froze them. But you may also want to check the UPC code on your package.
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The CDC reported that since August 18, 2020, an additional 143 ill people were added to this investigation. As of August 31, 2020, the Thomson International outbreak infected a total of 1,012 people with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Newport in 47 states, and 136 hospitalizations have been reported. No deaths have been reported. The case count by state is: Alaska (21), Alabama (1), Arizona (35), Arkansas (2), California (122), Colorado (26), Connecticut (2), Delaware (2), Florida (8), Georgia (11), Hawaii (3), Idaho (37), Illinois (54), Indiana (3), Iowa (26), Kansas (2), Kentucky (1), Maine (6), Maryland (7), Massachusetts (2), Michigan (47), Minnesota (18), Mississippi (4), Missouri (11), Montana (63), Nebraska (10), Nebraska (10), Nevada (11), New Hampshire (1), New Jersey (8), New Mexico (1), New York (10), North Carolina (6), North Dakota (9), Ohio (11), Oregon (101), Pennsylvania (22), Rhode Island (3), South Carolina (1), South Dakota (23), Tennessee (7), Texas (2), Utah (110), Virginia (10), Washington (117), West Virginia (2), Wisconsin (10), and Wyoming (23). WGS shows that an outbreak of Salmonella Newport infections in Canada is related genetically to this outbreak in the United States. In Canada, 457 people are sick in 7 provinces. Thirty-four illness clusters, or a group of two more unrelated people who ate at the same restaurant or shopped at the same store before illness onset, have been identified. Investigations by the states and the FDA found that 23 of the 34 clusters were linked to restaurants or grocery stores. All 23 served or sold red, yellow, or white onions. The traceback information collected from several of these illness clusters identified Thomson International, Inc., of Bakersfield, California, as a likely source of red onions. @ https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/newport-07-20/index.html
Food Safety Alert: A multistate outbreak of Salmonella Newport infections has been linked to onions.
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Food Safety Tech reports that more than 350 workers (out of 2600 workers) at the Foster Farms poultry processing facility located in Livingston, California, have tested positive for the novel coronavirus. The outbreak has resulted in the death of eight employees. Because of increasing deaths and uncontrolled COVID-19 cases, the decision was made to order the Livingston Plant to close until acceptable safety measures are in place. The plant will close until September 7. During the closure, the facility will be deep cleaned, and employees will engage in a new round of testing. Merced County states that an employee cannot return to work until two negative COVID-19 test results within seven days. @ https://foodsafetytech.com/news_article/uncontrolled-covid-19-cases-foster-farms-temporarily-shuts-down-plant-following-eight-worker-deaths/
