MONDAY, Nov. 18, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An E. coli outbreak linked to organic carrots has sickened 39 people in 18 states, U.S. health officials reported Sunday. Supplied by California-based Grimmway Farms and sold under popular brand names such as Nature’s Promise, Wegmans and Trader Joe’s, the tainted carrots haveContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Nov. 14, 2024 (HealthDay News) — The number of Americans sickened in an E. coli outbreak tied to slivered onions used on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has now risen to 104, U.S. health officials reported Wednesday. In an update posted on its website, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration saidContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 6, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Eating fewer burgers and steaks could pay big dividends for Mother Earth, and human health, by combatting climate change, a new study suggests. Small cutbacks in beef production among wealthy nations could remove 125 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, researchersContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Onions spread on McDonald’s Quarter Pounders are the definite source of an outbreak of E. coli illness that’s now affected 90 people nationwide, new evidence from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. “Epidemiologic and traceback information show that fresh, sliveredContinue Reading
MONDAY, Oct. 28, 2024 (HealthDay News) — McDonald’s Quarter Pounder beef patties have tested negative for E. coli contamination as an outbreak that has sickened 75 people in 13 states continues, the company announced Sunday. Federal health officials had already identified slivered onions that had been used on the burgersContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An outbreak of E. coli illness linked to onions used in McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has expanded to now include 75 cases across 13 states, U.S. health officials announced Friday. That’s up from 49 cases in 10 states reported on Monday. The three newContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 25, 2024 (HealthDay News) — With onions from one supplier implicated as the source of E. coli illness linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, other fast food chains are now pulling the onions from their menus. Representatives for Burger King, Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut all told NBC NewsContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 24, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Just days after an E. coli outbreak tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders was first announced, a company producing onions used in the burgers said it has issued a recall for its diced, peeled and whole onions. The onions were produced at Taylor FarmsContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 23, 2024 (HealthDay News) — An E. coli outbreak tied to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders has sickened 49 people in 10 states, killing one and landing 10 more in the hospital. Most of the illnesses have been reported in Colorado and Nebraska, and one child developed a serious complicationContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Treehouse Foods Inc. has recalled dozens of frozen waffle products because of potential listeria contamination. The recalled products were distributed throughout the United States and Canada and packed in various formats, the company said in its recall notice, which includes photos of theContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 22, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Experiments in sheep are hinting that doses of caffeine given to women in pregnancy, as well as their newborns after birth, could prevent cerebral palsy. Cerebral palsy is a disabling condition often caused by asphyxia — reductions in oxygen supply — around theContinue Reading
THURSDAY, Oct. 17, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A national recall of meat and poultry has been expanded to include close to 12 million pounds of products that may have been contaminated with listeria, U.S. health officials announced. In addition, the updated recall noted that some of the affected products “wereContinue Reading
FRIDAY, Oct. 11, 2024 (HealthDay News) — Oklahoma meat processor BrucePac is recalling close to 10 million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry that may have been contaminated with the Listeria bacterium. In an announcement updated this week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), the meatContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Oct. 1, 2024 (HealthDay News) — A new law just passed in California makes it the first state to tell public schools they may no longer serve foods that contain six artificial dyes linked to health and behavior problems among children. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the California School Food SafetyContinue Reading