Organic food news

• Listeria, botulism risks trigger recalls of OC Raw Dog pet food

  21-04-2018 07:05 via feeds.lexblog.com
  OC Raw Dog LLC is recalling freeze-dried sardines because they were determined by the Food and Drug Administration to exceed the agency’s size restriction guideline for uneviscerated fish.
  Uneviscerated, salt-cured, dried or fermented fish larger than 5 inches in length were linked to outbreaks of botulism in the 1980s and again in 1991. Packages of OC Raw’s sardines examined by the Minnesota Department of Food and Agriculture were found to contain uneviscerated, or ungutted, fish me
  
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• Kentucky health officials respond aggressively to Hepatitis A

  21-04-2018 06:48 via feeds.lexblog.com
  Public health officials in Kentucky are responding agressively to a Hepatitis A outbreak, and Dr. Jeffrey Howard, acting director of the state health department issued a statement Friday saying it’s still safe to travel to Kentucky.
  Howard mentioned the May 5 Kentucky Derby and urged people to come on down to Churchill Downs.
  “As you probably know, a small number of counties in our state are dealing with a Hepatitis A outbreak,” Howard said.
  “At the Department for Pu
  
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• All get expanded romaine warnings because of Alaska findings

  21-04-2018 03:27 via feeds.lexblog.com
  The federal government today expanded its romaine lettuce warning to include all types of romaine lettuce from the Yuma, AZ, growing region, including whole heads and hearts of romaine in addition to chopped, because of an ongoing E. coli outbreak. No specific brands, growers or processors have been named.
  On April 13, the warning against romaine from the Yuma, AZ, only included pre-chopped romaine and salads containing pre-cut romaine. At that time 35 people from 11 states had been confirm
  
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