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The FDA announced that the Pictsweet Company has recalled 1,872 cases of Pictsweet Farms 8-ounce Steam’ables Asparagus Spears due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. No illnesses have been reported to date and no other Pictsweet Farms products are impacted by this recall. The states in which the product was distributed are as follows: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The company initiated this recall after it was notified by the manufacturer that product suspected of containing Listeria monocytogenes was inadvertently shipped to The Pictsweet Company. @ https://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm625788.htm

ALEBRIJE DIST WHOLESALE voluntarily recalled imported Alebrije Cheese pieces due to Salmonella fining in a sample of Quesillo “Queseria La Milagrosa”. The affected product was distributed the dates between October 23 and October 24 through retail sale and direct delivery, in Los Angeles, CA. No illnesses have been reported to date. The products involved are (i) Quesillo “Queseria La Milagrosa”. It´s wrapped in a basic plastic bag with a yellow label with two presentations ½ kg and 1kg,; and (ii) “Alebrije Cheese” It´s wrapped in a basic plastic bag with an orange and blue label with three presentations ½ kg, 1kg and 5kg. The recall resulted in from a routine sampling inspection by the CDFA which revealed that the products contained Salmonella. The company has ceased the distribution of the product. @
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The Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration (IFSAC) was created in 2011 by three agencies—the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) in order to improve coordination of federal food safety analytic efforts and address priorities for food safety data collection, analysis, and use. The IFSAC issued a new report estimating the degree to which specific foods are responsible for foodborne illnesses. For the report, IFSAC analyzed data from 1,000 foodborne disease outbreaks that occurred from 1998 through 2016 to assess which categories of foods were most responsible for Salmonella, E. coli O157, Listeria monocytogenes, and Campylobacter infections. The major findings were: Salmonella illnesses came from a wide variety of foods. E. coli O157 illnesses were most often linked to Vegetable (such as leafy greens) and Beef. Listeria monocytogenes illnesses were most often linked to Dairy products and Fruits. There was an increase in the estimated contribution of Listeria illnesses to Vegetable Row Crops from 3.4% in 2013 to 12.5 % in 2016 due to the impact of a large multi-state outbreak in 2015 linked to prepackaged lettuce. Campylobacter illnesses were most often linked to Chicken. Campylobacter outbreaks were also associated with unpasteurized milk. For 2016, the adjusted Chicken percentage increased from 9.5% to 30.3% after removing Dairy (raw milk). @ https://www.fda.gov/Food/NewsEvents/ConstituentUpdates/ucm625291.htm