Recall Rebound
WASHINGTON Go figure: Food makers processed more peanuts over the past year than nearly any other time on record despite a national salmonella outbreak blamed for killing nine people and scaring consumers away from peanut products for months. Peanu...
 4.8K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 428.0 Officials: 28 sick from Calif. beef in 3 states
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Health officials in three Western states said Friday at least 28 people have reported illnesses tied to recalled ground beef that may be tainted with salmonella. On Thursday, Fresno-based Beef Packers Inc. recalled nearly 826,000...
1.7K - Aug. 8, 2009; scored 142.0 Oregonians go to D.C. to push for food safety
PORTLAND (AP) - More than 20 people from Oregon and other states who have been affected by recent food poisonings are headed to the nation's capital to ask Congress to overhaul the country's food safety system. The delegation includes a Wilsonville b...
0.7K - Apr. 27, 2009; scored 112.0 Cute, fuzzy fowl can carry disease
State health officials are reminding Oregonians that baby fowl may carry salmonella. Chicks, ducklings and other young fowl may not be appropriate pets for children younger than 5 years old or for people with weakened immune systems, said Emilio DeBe...
1.7K - Apr. 10, 2009; scored 513.0 Four sickened; ground pepper blamed
PORTLAND (AP) - State officials say four Oregonians, from the Portland region, were among 42 sickened in a salmonella outbreak traced to ground pepper distributed by a California company, much of it to Chinese and Vietnamese establishments. The Publi...
0.8K - Mar. 31, 2009; scored 285.0 Report: Food tracing system is full of gaps
WASHINGTON (AP) - Government investigators testing the nation's food tracing system were able to follow only five out of 40 foods all the way through the supply chain, according to a report to be released today. The ability to trace food is a critica...
2.9K - Mar. 26, 2009; scored 71.0 Salmonella taking toll on food industry
WASHINGTON (AP) - The mortgage meltdown exposed the weakness of self-regulation in financial markets. Now the salmonella outbreak is doing the same for the food industry. A House subcommittee Thursday released new documents that showed how private in...
4.1K - Mar. 20, 2009; scored 857.0 Kellogg CEO pushes for food safety improvements
WASHINGTON (AP) - It's not just consumer groups anymore that say the U.S. food safety system is broken. The head of Kellogg Co., the world's largest cereal maker, planned to urge Congress today to revamp how the government polices his industry. Kello...
0.8K - Mar. 19, 2009; scored 285.0 Smoking is a proven killer in Coos County
How many have died in Coos County from eating peanut products contaminated with salmonella? None. How many have died since Jan. 1, from tobacco? Forty. That estimated number is based on statistics from recent years. As the county registrar, every dea...
2.2K - Mar. 14, 2009; scored 71.0 FDA seeks faster salmonella test
WASHINGTON (AP) Wanted: Salmonella detector. Must work fast. Send plans and specifications to Uncle Sam, care of the Food and Drug Administration. Frustrated that conventional lab methods can now take as long as nine days to identify the most comm...
3.1K - Mar. 10, 2009; scored 941.0 State food bank recalls peanut snacks
PORTLAND (AP) The Oregon Food Bank is recalling more than 54,000 snack bars containing potentially contaminated peanut ingredients. The donated Peanut Oregon Health Food Bars were made with ingredients recalled by Peanut Corp. of America because of...
0.6K - Mar. 4, 2009; scored 285.0 Cheers & Jeers
Leadership at a discount Cheers to Gov. Ted Kulongoski for taking a voluntary pay cut. At $93,600 annually, he s already one of America s lowest-paid governors. His 5 percent reduction tells taxpayers he s sharing our pain. Raindrops keep fa...
2.1K - Feb. 21, 2009; scored 71.0 Food banks pull food
CHICAGO (AP) Food banks nationwide are being forced to toss thousands of pounds of food containing peanut products recalled in the salmonella outbreak a particularly painful process as those same pantries struggle to meet a growing demand in a fl...
5.7K - Feb. 17, 2009; scored 165.0 Peanut butter may get 'high risk' designation
WASHINGTON (AP) They say nothing is more wholesome than peanut butter, but the government may soon ask companies that make the gooey treat to prove it. The salmonella outbreak is starting to change the way the government oversees the safety of pean...
1.3K - Feb. 12, 2009; scored 285.0 Cracking the case of the poison processed peanuts
WASHINGTON (AP) A century ago, at the dawn of food safety laws, inspection amounted to little more than opening a bin of flour and looking for something wiggly. It s a different story now. Solving the case of the poison processed peanuts took marat...
6.8K - Feb. 9, 2009; scored 637.0 Computer network Q&A warned of salmonella
ATLANTA (AP) U.S. health officials were first alerted to the current peanut-based salmonella outbreak through a government computer network called PulseNet. But the system relies on doctors testing patients and it takes interviews with patients to ...
4.5K - Feb. 9, 2009; scored 941.0 Tests show salmonella struck Roseburg dog
PORTLAND (AP) State health officials said Friday that a dog in Roseburg is one of the latest victims of the national outbreak of salmonella linked to contaminated peanut butter products. Laboratory tests confirmed that a box of Happy Tails Multi-Fl...
0.6K - Feb. 7, 2009; scored 368.0 Survey finds American adults are risk takers
YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) We re not smart cookies when it comes to eating cookie dough, and too often engage in all kinds of other risky behavior. Those are the findings of a Consumer Reports telephone survey of 1,000 adults. It found nearly 3 of every 4 ...
0.7K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 71.0 Leaders to press for food safety overhaul
WASHINGTON (AP) Lawmakers are looking into the national salmonella outbreak and vowing to press for stronger food safety laws and more money for inspections. To say that food safety in this country is a patchwork system is giving it too much credit...
1.0K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 285.0 Salmonella spurs ice cream, trail mix recalls
Umpqua Dairy Products of Roseburg voluntarily recalled certain lot codes of its ice cream because they have the potential to be contaminated with salmonella. The products were manufactured using peanuts recalled by Peanut Corp. of American and distri...
2.1K - Feb. 5, 2009; scored 857.0 | 
