List of foodborne illness outbreaks in the United States

In 1999, an estimated 5,000 deaths, 325,000 hospitalizations and 76 million illnesses were caused by foodborne illnesses within the US.[1] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began tracking outbreaks starting in the 1970s.[2]

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References

  1. ^ Emerging Infectious Diseases, vol. 5, no. 5, Sept. 1999
  2. ^ a b c d William Neuman (September 27, 2011). "Deaths From Cantaloupe Listeria Rise". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/business/deaths-from-cantaloupe-listeria-rises.html?src=me&ref=general. Retrieved 2011-09-29. "At least 13 people in eight states have died after eating cantaloupe contaminated with listeria, in the deadliest outbreak of food-borne illness in the United States in more than a decade, public health officials said on Tuesday. ... The outbreak appeared to be the third worst in the United States attributed to any form of food-borne illness, in terms of the number of deaths, since the C.D.C. began regularly tracking such outbreaks in the early 1970s. The deadliest outbreak in the United States since then occurred in 1985, when a wave of listeria illness, linked to Mexican-style fresh cheese, swept through California. A federal database says 52 deaths were attributed to the outbreak, but news reports at the time put the number as high as 84. The second deadliest outbreak was in 1998 and 1999, when there were at least 14 deaths and four miscarriages or stillbirths in a listeria outbreak linked to hot dogs and delicatessen meats. Some sources put the death toll in that outbreak as high as 21. ..." 
  3. ^ "Multistate Outbreak of Listeriosis Linked to Whole Cantaloupes from Jensen Farms, Colorado". Listeriosis (Listeria infection). Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. http://www.cdc.gov/listeria/outbreaks/index.html. Retrieved December 9, 2011. 
  4. ^ "Tainted Cantaloupes Behind Deadliest Food-Borne Outbreak". ABC News Medical Unit. Nov. 3, 2011. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Health/cantaloupes-tied-deadliest-food-outbreak/story?id=14874373#.TrQcKoReO-o. Retrieved Nov. 4, 2011. 
  5. ^ a b c "Del Monte suit says FDA botched cantaloupe salmonella probe. Del Monte says officials weren't thorough in their investigation of an outbreak blamed on its imported melons. It wants an alert lifted". Los Angeles Times. September 2, 2011. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/02/business/la-fi-del-monte-20110902. Retrieved 2011-09-30. "In March, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the FDA found that cantaloupes from a Guatemala farm were connected to 12 cases of salmonella poisoning. The FDA later concluded that the cantaloupes were imported into the U.S. by Del Monte. As of June, 20 people had fallen ill from the outbreak of Salmonella Panama, including two people in California, according to the CDC. ... The melon recall was relatively small compared with some of the other food contaminations that have occurred in recent months, including strawberries with E. coli that killed one person in Oregon and salmonella-tainted ground turkey products that killed one person in California and made more than 100 people ill nationwide." 
  6. ^ "News Release: Fresh strawberries from Washington County farm implicated in E. coli O157 outbreak in NW Orego". Oregon Health Authority. http://www.oregon.gov/OHA/news/2011/2011-0808.pdf. Retrieved August 8th, 2011. 
  7. ^ Roos, Robert (August 8th, 2011). "NEWS SCAN: Strawberry E coli outbreak, beef grinding and Salmonella, mass anthrax prophylaxis, measles hits refugees". CIDRAP. http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/cidrap/content/fs/food-disease/news/aug0811newsscan.html. 
  8. ^ http://www.cargill.com/news-center/news-releases/2011/NA3047807.jsp
  9. ^ William Neuman (August 2, 2011). "Turkey Plant May Be Salmonella Link". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/03/business/turkey-plant-may-be-link-to-salmonella-cases.html. Retrieved 2011-09-30. "Federal officials said on Tuesday that they were investigating an apparent link between ground turkey meat and a nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness that has so far killed one person in California and sickened at least 76 more people in 26 states." 
  10. ^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42425976/ns/health-food_safety/
  11. ^ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43522015/ns/local_news-rochester_ny/
  12. ^ Melanie S. Welte (20 August 2010). "Egg Recall Expands To More Than Half A Billion Nationwide". The Huffington Post. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/21/egg-recall-expands-to-mor_n_690019.html. Retrieved 21 August 2010. 
  13. ^ "Food Safety Problems Slip Past Private Inspectors". New York Times. March 5, 2009. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/business/06food.html?_r=1&hp. Retrieved 2009-03-06. "Federal investigators later discovered that the dilapidated plant was ravaged by salmonella and had been shipping tainted peanuts and paste for at least nine months. But they were too late to prevent what has become one of the nation’s worst known outbreaks of food-borne disease in recent years, in which nine are believed to have died and an estimated 22,500 were sickened." 
  14. ^ Zhang, Jane (January 18, 2009). "FDA Warns Against Foods Containing Peanut Butter". Wall Street Journal. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123223126208893569.html. Retrieved 2009-01-18. "Product samples from Peanut Corp. of America in Lynchburg, Va., were tested positive in Minnesota and Connecticut for the bacteria that have sickened at least 474 people in 43 states and may have contributed to six deaths, said officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention." 
  15. ^ Update on Recalled Nestlé Toll House Cookie Dough
  16. ^ Nestle Toll House Cookie Dough E. coli Outbreak
  17. ^ "Cases infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Saintpaul, United States,and we all ran naked in the streets of mexico by state". http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/saintpaul/map.html.  For some states, such as California, the CDC has recently revised the tally of identified illnesses downward.
  18. ^ August 8, 2008: Investigation of Outbreak of Infections Caused by Salmonella Saintpaul | Salmonella CDC
  19. ^ Voetsch, et al. (2004-04-15). "FoodNet Estimate of the Burden of Illness Caused by Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections in the United States". Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2004; 38:S3. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/381578. 
  20. ^ "Two dead from Whittier Farms milk contamination.". Metro West Daily News. December 27, 2007. http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/homepage/x1151534597. Retrieved 2007-12-27. "The Department of Public Health (DPH) has issued a warning to consumers not to drink any milk products from Whittier Farms in Shrewsbury because of listeria bacteria contamination, which has contributed to the death of two people" 
  21. ^ St. Cloud Times "ConAgra Foods recalls all pot pies". Retrieved 10-13-2007
  22. ^ "Topps Meat Co. folds after beef recall.". New York Times. October 5, 2007. http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2007/10/topps_meat_co_folds_after_mass.html. Retrieved 2007-09-25. "Topps Meat Co. of Elizabeth, which is involved in the second-largest beef recall in U.S. history, said today it is going out of business after more than six decades" 
  23. ^ a b c Patrick Lyons (October 5, 2007). "In a Beef Packager’s Demise, a Whiff of Vichyssoise.". New York Times. http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/in-a-beef-packagers-demise-a-whiff-of-vichyssoise/#more-845. Retrieved 2007-10-09. "On an early July day in 1971 when it was too hot to cook, a couple in Westchester County, New York, sat down to a meal of Bon Vivant vichyssoise, a soup often served chilled (and in this case, straight from the can). The soup tasted funny, so they didn’t finish it; within hours he was dead and she was paralyzed from botulism poisoning. F.D.A. investigators found five other cans of vichyssoise from the same batch of 6,444 that were also tainted with botulism, and spot checks of other products raised questions about the company’s processing practices, so the agency shut down the plant and told the company to recall all its soups." 
  24. ^ Spinach Recall Sparks Oversight Calls
  25. ^ Castleberry Foods Press Release
  26. ^ Associated Press
  27. ^ Peanut butter recalled in salmonella outbreak
  28. ^ Supplier Expands Beef Recall Over Concerns of E. Coli Contamination
  29. ^ New York Times; December 4, 2006; E. Coli Sickens More Than 35 in N.J. and L.I.
  30. ^ Bridges, Andrew. "Lettuce Suspected in Taco Bell E. Coli". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/13/AR2006121300593_pf.html. Retrieved May 8, 2010. 
  31. ^ "Update on Multi-State Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 Infections From Fresh Spinach". CDC. September 23, 2006. http://www.cdc.gov/foodborne/ecolispinach/current.htm. Retrieved 2006-09-24. 
  32. ^ "First case of contaminated spinach recorded in Canada". CBC News. September 25, 2006. http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2006/09/25/contaminated-spinach.html. 
  33. ^ Hepatitis A Outbreak Associated with Green Onions at a Restaurant - Monaca, Pennsylvania, 2003
  34. ^ Becker, Elizabeth (July 20, 2002). "19 Million Pounds Of Meat Recalled After 19 Fall Ill". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9B01E2D91F39F933A15754C0A9649C8B63. Retrieved May 8, 2010. 
  35. ^ Burros, Marian (October 30, 2002). "EATING WELL; Listeria Thrives in a Political Hotbed". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9A02E3DF123FF933A05753C1A9649C8B63. Retrieved May 8, 2010. 
  36. ^ Outbreak of Botulism Type E Associated with Eating a Beached Whale - Western Alaska, July 2002
  37. ^ Woman hospitalized with E. coli sues Emmpak
  38. ^ "Salmonellosis Outbreak Associated with Raw Mung Bean Sprouts SproutNet". Sproutnet.com. http://www.sproutnet.com/Research/salmonellosis_outbreak_associate.htm. Retrieved 2010-09-05. 
  39. ^ Colorado Plant Linked to E. coli Outbreak Story
  40. ^ Beef grinder close to salad prep area, official says
  41. ^ Meat thought to be E. coli culprit
  42. ^ Winter, Greg (March 18, 2001). "Contaminated Food Makes Millions Ill Despite Advances". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9900E3D8123DF93BA25750C0A9679C8B63. Retrieved May 8, 2010. 
  43. ^ CNN; April 3, 1997
  44. ^ "Accord Is Reached in Food-Poisoning Case". New York Times. May 27, 1998. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/27/us/accord-is-reached-in-food-poisoning-case.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm. Retrieved 2011-09-30. "The New York Times reported in January that in the weeks before the outbreak, Odwalla began relaxing its standards on accepting blemished fruit and began to rein in the authority of its own safety officials, according to company documents and interviews with former Odwalla managers. By these accounts, on the day the contaminated juice was pressed, production managers brushed aside warnings from a company inspector that a batch of apples was too rotten to use without taking special precautions against contaminants. ..." 
  45. ^ a b Christopher Drew and Pam Belluck (January 4, 1988). "Deadly Bacteria a New Threat To Fruit and Produce in U.S.". New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/04/us/deadly-bacteria-a-new-threat-to-fruit-and-produce-in-us.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm. Retrieved 2008-08-11. "Interviews with former Odwalla managers and company documents show that in the weeks before the outbreak, Odwalla began relaxing its standards on accepting blemished fruit and reining in the authority of its own safety officials, culminating in tense, dramatic moments on the morning of Oct. 7, 1996, the day the contaminated juice was pressed. ..." 
  46. ^ Henkel, John (1995). "Ice cream firm linked to salmonella outbreak". FDA Consumer. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1370/is_n5_v29/ai_17067476. 
  47. ^ "Ice Cream Linked to Salmonella in 15 States". New York Times. October 16, 1994. http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/16/us/ice-cream-linked-to-salmonella-in-15-states.html. Retrieved 2011-09-30. "The manufacturer, Schwan's Sales Enterprises in Marshall, Minn., recalled its ice cream last week after the first reports of food poisoning. Investigators have found salmonella bacteria in samples of Schwan's ice cream eaten by people who became ill. ..." 
  48. ^ "The New Regulatory Approach for Meat and Poultry Safety". Food Safety and Inspection Service,United States Department of Agriculture. http://www.fsis.usda.gov/oa/background/bkbeyond.htm. 
  49. ^ "Botulism Reported In Fort Lee Family". The New York Times. May 7, 1992. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9E0CE3DF153FF934A35756C0A964958260&n=Top%2fNews%2fScience%2fTopics%2fAnimals. Retrieved May 8, 2010. 
  50. ^ a b Segal, Marian (1988). "Invisible villains; tiny microbes are biggest food hazard". FDA Consumer. http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1370/is_n6_v22/ai_6589512. 
  51. ^ Lecos, Chris (1986). "Of microbes and milk; probing America's worst salmonella outbreak". FDA Consumer. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1370/is_v20/ai_4119044. 
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