So why did it take until the end of June to report on people who became sick from between Feb. 7 and May 23? Canada is hopeless on some things. Frozen and raw breaded chicken products are the culprits behind … Continue reading
State health and agriculture officials said today that six recent cases of salmonellosis in Minnesota have been linked to raw, frozen, breaded and pre-browned, stuffed chicken entrees. The implicated product is Antioch Farms brand A La Kiev raw stuffed chicken … Continue reading
“Doug, I may have sickened Sorenne.” That’s what Amy told me after serving the kid some chicken nuggets from Coles, one-half of the supermarket duopoly in Australia. Normally I cook and temp a full chicken and we eat the leftover … Continue reading
There has been a rise in the number of cases of Salmonella Enteritidis across Ontario, and although the source is still under investigation, a Continue reading
One of the first things I did after officially joining Kansas State University in 2006 was try and figure out some novel research. Chapman flew in from Guelph, we had a beer with Phebus at a local bar and sketched out a proposal on the back of a napkin, to observe people cooking chicken.Sarah Wilson, my composed colleague from the Guelph days, drafted the proposal and it got funded by the American Meat Institute
The Minnesota folks are really good at focusing on raw, frozen, chicken thingies during outbreaks of foodborne illness. And once again, they’ve cracked the case.(these aren’t the products implicated, below, right, but an example of the raw and fully cooked products available at retail)State health and agriculture officials said today that recent cases of salmonellosis in Minnesota have been linked to raw, frozen, breaded and pre-browned, stuffed chicken entrees
I’m not going to the annual meeting of the International Association for Food Protection this year. Maybe it’s me, maybe it’s the meeting, maybe I got other things going on.Sarah DeDonder, a PhD student at Kansas State, is going, and will be presenting some work we did last summer.The abstract for the presentation is below
Julie Schmit of USA Today reports that federal food-safety officials are considering whether labels on some frozen chicken products adequately inform consumers that the chicken is raw and provide sufficient cooking instructions. Minnesota health officials said that stuffed chicken entrees — which look cooked because they’re breaded and prebrowned so that the breading sticks — are blamed for five salmonella outbreaks since 1998 that sickened 71 people
Should microwaves be used to safely cook or simply reheat food?Depends. An outbreak of salmonella in Minnesota last week was once again linked to frozen, raw chicken thingies — in this case breaded, pre-browned chicken cordon bleu and chicken Kiev produced by Milford Valley Farms.This is the fifth such outbreak the Minnesota disease detectives have traced to such products in the past decade
Over a decade ago, when I went to Kansas State, me and Chapman and Phebus came up with a project to see how people cooked raw, frozen chicken thingies. The American Meat Institute funded it. Some of these chicken thingies … Continue reading