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Sort by relevance 372 pages found matching tyson foods- Maple Leaf Pulls Weiners Due to Listeria Concerns
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is advising customers to throw out any of the following items made by Maple Leaf Foods due to concerns over potential Listeria contamination: Hygrade Wieners, sold in 450-gram packages with a best-before date of Sept. 16 Shopsy's Deli-Fresh All Beef Frankfurters (value pack), sold in 3 x 675-g packages with a be... - Mother Angry About Loss of Sense of Smell After Zicam Use
Jul-14-09 Highlands Ranch, CO The sense of smell is something that people might take for granted, until they lose it. Jenny R. believes she suffered from Zicam side effects which include a loss of the sense of smell. Jenny says that since she suffered the reported Zicam smell loss, she has become concerned about the risks to her family, because she is unable to... - CPI Foods Recalls Non Fat Dry Milk Because of Possible Salmonella Contamination
CPI Foods, Inc of Dallas, TX, is recalling approximately 15,000 (net wt. 20g) packets of non fat dry milk because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. Non Fat Dry Milk packets are components of CPI Foods shelf stable meal kits distributed to various community service companies in Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, West Virginia, Nor... - Bactrim SJS: From the Epitome of Health to Near-Death
Jun-14-09 Mobile, AL After three days on Bactrim for a mild infection, Myra was so sick that she wound up in the ER with a fever of 104 degrees. And she got worse because the doctor told her to continue taking the sulfa drug. Finally a dermatologist saw her and diagnosed SJS Bactrim: Myra almost died from a severe allergic reaction to Bactrim that caused Steven... - Two Confirmed Dead in ConAgra Food Plant Explosion
Jun-10-09 Garner, NC Two people have been confirmed dead and a third person is missing after a massive explosion at a ConAgra food plant yesterday morning. According to officials quoted on CNN.com four people were in critical condition after the 11:30am EST explosion at the ConAgra Foods facility at Garner, North Carolina just south of Raleigh. The most seriously... - Preventing Foodborne Illness this Barbeque Season
Jun-8-09 Madison, WI: Who doesn't love a barbeque? It's one of America's favorite summer pastimes, but all too often we hear reports of people getting sick from eating contaminated food. Last month, President Barack Obama pledged to revamp protection of the nation's food supply to help prevent future disease outbreaks: Numerous outbreaks of foodborne illness have... - ConAgra Settles Hundreds of Peanut Butter Salmonella Cases
A Texas law firm announced today that they have negotiated confidential settlements for 752 individuals across the US who became ill after consuming Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter manufactured by ConAgra Foods, Inc. In November 2006, public health officials at CDC and state health departments detected a substantial increase in the reported inc... - Tyson Foods Settles 7 Year Class Action
Food banks across Illinois will benefit from the recently announced settlement of the Tyco Foods class action, as they will receive about 1.7 million pounds of chicken as a result of unclaimed settlement funds. The suit, filed 7 years ago, alleged that Tyson Foods had artificially inflated the weight of poultry products sold to consumers between 1997 a... - Nutro Recalls Dry Cat Food Products due to High Zinc Levels
Dry Cat Food Recalled Internationally Nutro Products is recalling select varieties of NUTRO® NATURAL CHOICE® COMPLETE CARE® Dry Cat Foods and NUTRO® MAX® Cat Dry Foods with "Best If Used By Dates" between May 12, 2010 and August 22, 2010. The cat food is being recalled in the United States and 10 additional countries. This recall is due to i... - Unum Life Insurance No Guarantee of Benefits
May-20-09 Reno, NV It's not too difficult to find a policyholder disgruntled with their insurance provider and Unum life insurance in particular. In general insurers are only too happy to relieve people of their premiums each month only to balk when it comes time to give back. Such is often the case with Unum Provident. A recent lawsuit over Unum long-term disabil... - Reports of Foodborne Illness Often Mistaken as "Flu"
May-19-09 Sherman Oaks, CA Sarah and her son had dinner at a local Mexican restaurant; two days later they both became violently sick but at first thought it was the flu. "When I phoned the health department, they told me that all too often, people don't report food poisoning ," says Sara. "But when two people become ill from eating basically the same food at the s... - Peanut Salmonella Litigation Status
May-5-09 Washington, DC Increasingly, more individuals across the United States have reported that they contracted Salmonella Typhimurium from peanut butter and peanut products, namely from the Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), Kellogg Company, and Kanan Enterprises, Inc. Overview of the Peanut Butter Outbreak Officials at the Center for Disease Contr... - It's a Match - Salmonella from Pistachios Linked to Illnesses
May-3-09 Washington, DC: On March 26, 2009 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) informed the Center for Disease Control (CDC) that multiple samples of pistachios and pistachio-containing products collected from Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella Inc, of Terra Bella, California were contaminated with several serotypes of Salmonella , including Montevideo, Newpo... - Pasta & Co Issues Recall due to Possible Salmonella Contamination
Pasta & Co of Seattle, WA, is recalling their Chinese Vermicelli Salad and Pot Sticker Salad, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella. The products were manufactured using chili oil recalled by Union International Food Co., and may be contaminated with Salmonella. Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and somet... - Hidden Overtime: Interview with Wage and Hour Lawyer Greg Jones
Apr-22-09 Willmington, NC Wage and Hour lawyer Greg Jones says that many people are unaware of overtime laws ; they don't realize that issues such as donning and doffing or unpaid meal periods may constitute overtime. "Most people think of overtime as working more than 40 hours a week, but there are other types of overtime that aren't apparent, and a lot of thes... - Salmonella Spice Recall Expanded to Additional Products
Apr-20-09 Union International Food Co. is further expanding the salmonella spice recall of Lian How and Uncle Chen brand retail and institutional products. The recall now includes various size packages of all Uncle Chen and Lian How sauces, oils, and oil blends because the products may be contaminated with salmonella. The products included in this expanded reca... - Pistachio Recall Widens Further
Apr-7-09 Terra Bella, CA The pistachio nut recall announced by Setton Pistachio in late March was widened last night and could wind up rivaling the size and breadth of the peanut recall that affected hundreds of brands. It's starting to look like the peanut recall all over again, with one difference: so far, no illnesses have been tied to pistachio nuts, or pi... - Listeria Contamination Found in Strubs Norwegian Style Steelhead Salmon
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning consumers not to eat Strubs Norwegian Style Sliced Smoked Steelhead Salmon in 300 gram packages because of potential contamination with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. Distributed by West Side Foods Inc., of Bronx, N.Y., the smoked steelhead salmon was imported from Canada, and 13 cartons were sol... - Pistachio Recall Widens
Apr-5-09 Terra Bella, CA When the pistachio recall first rolled out on March 24th there were no reports of any illnesses. That may not be the case now, after pistachio nuts from Setton Pistachio are being investigated and a food recall is expanding. This latest recall—which was voluntary on the part of Setton Pistachio—first came to light a little more th... - Shelled Pistachio Nuts Recalled due to Potential Salmonella Contamination
The Kroger Co., is recalling Private Selection Shelled Pistachios sold in its family of retail stores because the product may be contaminated with Salmonella. Stores under the following names in the 31 states where Kroger operates are included in this recall: Kroger, Ralphs, Fred Meyer, Fry's, King Soopers, Smith's, Dillons, QFC, City Market, Foods Co...