Rich Products Corporation, a Buffalo, N.Y. firm, is expanding its recall of various heat treated, not fully cooked frozen mini meals and snack items to more than 10.5 million pounds because they may be contaminated with E. coli O121.

Rich Products Corp., a Buffalo, N.Y. firm, is recalling approximately 196,222 pounds of frozen chicken quesadilla and various other heat treated, not fully cooked frozen mini meals and snack items.

San Jose Valley Veal, a Santa Clara, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 1,260 pounds of veal trimmings that may be contaminated with E. Coli O157:H7.

Glenn’s Market and Catering, a Watertown, WI establishment, is recalling approximately 2,532 pounds of raw ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.

The lawsuit, filed by the Marler Clark law firm on behalf of the family of Robert Danell, blames the companies for the sale of “unreasonably dangerous” food that led to Danell’s death in 2010.

Life Technologies Corp. has received a Letter of No Objection from the USDA-FSIS for its RapidFinder STEC (Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli) Detection system.

It has been over a year since the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) declared six non-O157 STECs as adulterants on raw non-intact beef, and almost five months since the agency started testing beef trimmings for these pathogens.

Main Street Quality Meats, a Salt Lake City, Utah establishment, is recalling approximately 2,310 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7

. Doug O’Halloran, president of United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401, said there is a “desperate need” for an improved culture of food safety at the plant.

In conducting standard recall effectiveness checks of U.S. domestic establishments receiving beef from XL Foods, Inc. (Canadian Establishment 038), the USDA discovered that whole muscle beef cuts prduced on the same production dates as beef subject to recall in Canada were being used to produce raw ground products.

Rochester Midland Corporation (RMC) is sponsoring an all day Food Safety Sanitation Forum on March 1 at Ayres Hotel, Chino Hills, CA. The forum will focus on food sanitation hot topics such as fungal and biofilm issues, allergen control, hygienic design issues, sustainability, GFSI Pros and Cons, and CIP/COP systems. Speakers include Margaret Kolk of National Sanitation Foundation (NSF), Gabe Miller and Mike Brandt from Sanimatic Corp., as well as Charles Giambrone, Technology and Regulatory Manager and Newton Green, Sustainability Engineer, both from RMC. Read More