A Ready-to-Eat (RTE) single-serve condiment manufacturer from New York and a shelf-stable RTE hot sauce manufacturer are both on notice from the Food and Drug Administration for violations of federal food safety rules.
The FDA
Continue Reading FDA warns ready-to-eat condiment and hot sauce manufacturers
Hawaii officials are investigating E. coli contamination in well water that has prompted the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut company to recall more than 20 products.
“There is clear evidence that food produced at the Kea‘au
Continue Reading Mauna Loa recalls some cookies, 20 macadamia products for E. coli risk
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing food safety recommendations for those who may be impacted by Hurricane Lane.
The National Weather Service has predicted Hurricane Lane would
Continue Reading USDA offers food safety advice for those in path of Hurricane Lane
A foodborne parasite detected in two patients in a Chinese hospital has been traced to consumption of raw wild centipedes, according to a case report by the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.
Researchers
Continue Reading Rat lungworm cases linked to eating centipedes; host snails increasing in US
The Hawaii Department of Health has confirmed the first case of rat lungworm disease in the state this year in an adult resident of West Hawaii on Hawaii Island.
The individual became seriously ill earlier
Continue Reading Hawaii reports first confirmed rat lungworm case of 2018
Ron and Darlene Fields had been married for 26
Continue Reading ‘Free’ trip leaves man in expensive, lifelong, parasitic nightmare
Hawaii is experiencing an uptick in rat lungworm disease. Six confirmed cases on Maui and another three confirmed cases on the Big Island were reported over the last three months with no deaths. That’s about
Continue Reading Rat lungworm cases spike on two Islands, Maui and Big Island
Legislatures in almost a dozen states this year are considering whether to permit sales in one form or another of raw milk, which public health officials say is dangerous because it has not been pasteurized
Continue Reading Raw milk still looking for wins as legislative season nears end
Meadow Gold Dairies in Hawaii is under order to stop distributing and selling its 2 percent reduced fat milk because state tests during the past four weeks have repeatedly showed more than 10 times the
Continue Reading Hawaii finds excess bacteria in Meadow Gold milk; stops sales
More than 90,000 people received the first shot of a two-injection Hepatitis A vaccination in the second half of 2016, and that means more than 90,000 follow-up injections are coming due in the Aloha State.
Continue Reading 90,000 Hepatitis A follow-up shots coming due in Hawaii
