Kroger, you may want to revisit Cargill as a supplier of ground turkey after the Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak which has now sickened 107 including one death.
German-owned French retailer Lidl has just terminated a 20-year relationship with its primary hamburger supplier, SEB, after those burgers were implicated in an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in 
the Lille region of France earlier this year.
A human tooth was found in a burger made by Bigard in Quimperlé, sold by a supermarket in Angers, France.
Nathalie Dayiot discovered the tooth crown was in a burger prepared by a friend at his home in Angers. He bought it in trays guaranteed "100% muscle" in the Grand Carrefour Maine Angers. "I felt something hard, says the young woman. I spit. It was a tooth on a pivot."
Romuald Gross, who made the purchase, has every intention to complain to the Directorate General for Competition, Consumption and Fraud.
The hamburgers were manufactured at Bigard in Quimperlé. The consumer advocate, Mr. Julien Roulleau, said two of the four who had attended the lunch were victims of food 
poisoning recorded this morning by their doctor, following the consumption of hamburgers. "The remaining burgers were seized by the DGCCRF. Beyond the problem of the tooth, it is important to know if the lot was consumed," said Me Roulleau.
Carrefour’s management promised an internal investigation and states that "the traceability of the product was traced back to the supplier concerned and to the manufacturing site."
Outbreak News reports at least 125 people, including 52 children have been stricken with what is possibly norovirus gastroenteritis at a holiday resort in the Haute-Savoie region in the Alps.
The Prefecture said in a statement, “11 children have been hospitalized, but their condition is not a cause for concern. In addition, it was noted that .jpg)
symptoms were mainly gastrointestinal: abdominal pain, vomiting, nausea and diarrhea.
The holiday resort was not closed where 110 young children are staying for one month. The virus spread rapidly person-to-person indoors as they were confined inside due to inclement weather.
The origin of the outbreak is being investigated where the Prefecture says initially it appears to be person-to-person spread and not food contamination.
A single shipment of fenugreek seeds from Egypt is the most likely source of a highly toxic E. coli epidemic in Germany which has killed 49 people and of a smaller outbreak in France, European investigators said on Tuesday.
The European Food Safety Authority urged the European Commission to make "all efforts" to prevent any further consumer exposure to suspect seeds and advised consumers not to eat sprouts or sprouted seeds unless they are thoroughly cooked.
Reuters reports more than 4,100 people in Europe and in North America have been infected in two outbreaks of E. coli infection — one centred in northern 
Germany and one focused around the French city of Bordeaux.
Almost all of those affected in the first outbreak — the deadliest on record — lived in Germany or had recently travelled there. The infection has killed 48 people in Germany and one person in Sweden so far.
"The analysis of information from the French and German outbreaks leads to the conclusion that an imported lot of fenugreek seeds which was used to grow sprouts imported from Egypt by a German importer is the most common likely link," the EFSA said in a statement.
A consignment of fenugreek seeds, from the batch believed to be the source of the EHEC infection in Germany and France, has been tracked to Sweden, according to the Swedish National Food Administration.
The seeds have been recalled but 25 kilos have already arrived in Sweden. The National Food Administration has contacted the company Econova in Norrköping, who in their turn have stopped the sales and recalled already delivered bags of seeds.
A 78-year-old woman in Bordeaux, France died from E. coli on Saturday morning, but it was not the same strain that has killed 50 related to sprouts in Germany.
She had been hospitalized since June 24 with hemolytic uremic syndrome — the kidney condition that the most seriously ill victims of the outbreak are suffering from.
Seven other patients remain at the same French hospital, six of whom have been confirmed to have the same strain of E.coli O104 as in the outbreak that originated in Germany. European health experts said Thursday that contaminated Egyptian fenugreek seeds were likely the source of that deadly outbreak.
In Sweden, the centre for communicable diseases (Smittskyddet) in Skåne, is now giving up attempts to find the source behind the first Swedish infection of the virulent enterohaemorrhagic E.coli (EHEC) bacteria.
Last Tuesday, a Swedish man with no apparent connections to Germany was infected with the bacteria, marking the first domestic case in Sweden.
"All previous Swedish cases had a connection to Germany, but not this," said Sofie Ivarsson, epidemiologist at the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control (Smittskyddsinstitutet) to news agency TT at the time.
"This means that the source of the infection is in Sweden, which is a lot worse, because it might mean that there is some form of infected food product in circulation that we haven’t yet identified."
As the death toll in the German E. coli O104 sprout outbreak rose to 50 with 4,121 ill including 845 with hemolytic uremic syndrome, Egypt’s ministry of agriculture said, don’t blame Egypt.
The head of Egypt’s Central Administration of Agricultural Quarantine, Ali Suleiman, said claims by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) that .jpg)
Egyptian fenugreek seeds exported in 2009 and 2010 may have been implicated in the outbreak were "completely untrue."??
"The presence of this bacteria in Egypt has not been proven at all, and it has not been recorded. He said the Egyptian company that exported the seeds in 2009 has stressed in a letter that it had exported the fenugreek to Holland and not to Germany, Britain or France.??
On Wednesday, the EFSA said a "rapid risk assessment" it conducted with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), had shown the Egyptian seeds could have been to blame.
The U.K. Food Standards Agency reiterated its advice that sprouted seeds should not be eaten raw, while Bloomberg reports that crudités – fancy French word for raw vegetables — eaten at a children’s center in Bordeaux are helping doctors in their two-month hunt for the source of the outbreak.
Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, said, “Fenugreek is showing up clearly in the French outbreak and showing up clearly in the German outbreak.”
The link to fenugreek, a clover-like plant used as both an herb and a spice, was identified after disease investigators found it was served at an event attended by patients in the Bordeaux suburb of Begles.
A cold buffet was served consisting of crudites, or raw vegetables, three dips, industrially produced gazpacho, a choice of two cold soups, pasteurized fruit .jpg)
juices and individual dishes composed of white grapes, tomatoes, sesame seeds, chives, industrially produced soft cheese and fruit, the report said.
The soups were served with fenugreek sprouts, a small amount of which were also placed on the crudite dishes. Mustard and rocket sprouts, still growing on cotton wool, were used to decorate the dishes, the authors said.
The sprouts had been grown from rocket, mustard and fenugreek seeds planted at the center the previous week. The seeds were bought from a branch of a national chain of gardening retailers, having been supplied by a distributor in the U.K., the authors said.
The European agencies advised consumers not to grow sprouts for their own use or to eat sprouts or sprouted seeds unless they have been thoroughly cooked.
European Union food safety and disease prevention agencies joined a mounting chorus today and said, don’t eat raw sprouts, as clues emerged about the origin of seeds.
AFP reports the two bodies conducted a study and said that they "strongly recommend to advise consumers not to grow sprouts for their own consumption and not to eat sprouts or sprouted seeds unless they have been cooked thoroughly."
The report by the European Food Safety Authority in Italy and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Sweden said sprouts are often sold as mixes and .jpeg)
"during re-packaging cross-contamination cannot be excluded."
Meanwhile CIDRAP reports new trace-back investigations in German and French E. coli outbreaks are pointing to two lots of fenugreek seeds that were imported from Egypt, according to the latest threat assessment from European officials.
Sprouts from Egyptian fenugreek seeds are suspected in both a cluster of French E coli O104:H4 illnesses and the large outbreak in Germany involving the same strain, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said in a risk assessment today. But the agencies cautioned that there is no lab evidence yet tying the seeds to the outbreaks.
The ECDC and the EFSA said they have urgently requested that the German-based company that imported the seeds help them track other customers who received fenugreek seeds from the two lots.
Officials suspect that Egyptian fenugreek seeds imported in 2009 are linked to the French E coli cluster and that a batch from 2010 is linked to the German outbreak. The ECDC identified the seed importer as AGA SAAT GMBH, based in Dusseldorf, Germany. It said a UK company that reportedly supplied the sprout seeds linked to the French cluster obtained the seeds from AGA SAAT GMBH.
As the death toll in the German E. coli O104 outbreak reached 48 and the sick approached 4,000, investigators have provided no clues on a key question: where did the seeds for sprouting originate?
Does anyone know?
"Investigations are ongoing, but the first findings suggest that locally grow sprouts might be involved," the WHO said in a statement Monday of the outbreak. It said that, .jpg)
of eight French cases so far, three of them carried the same bacteria strains as in Germany.
"Intensive traceback is under way to identify a possible common source of the German and French sprout seeds," it added. But "other potential vehicles are also under investigation
There was "no direct supply relationship" between the farm in Germany at the center of the outbreak and the British company, Thompson & Morgan, German spokeswoman Bansbach said.
Paul Hansord, managing director of Thompson & Morgan, said last night that it was “highly unlikely” that seeds supplied by his firm were to blame for the outbreak and insisted he had no plans to recall the products from shops and customers who have already bought them.
Environmental health officers have taken samples of the seeds from the company’s premises in Ipswich, Suffolk, so they can be tested for any trace of the E coli bug. The results are expected within four days.
“We have sold many hundreds of thousands of packets of sprouting seeds to home gardeners for several years without any reported problems.
“In particular we have sold around 100,000 packets of sprouting seeds in France from more than 500 outlets just since last November.
“All of the seeds came from the same batch and have been on sale in France for many months so if there had been a problem with them, we would have expected it to have emerged earlier.”
That’s nice. Where do the seeds come from? And are they circling the globe so that more outbreaks can be expected?
This is what not to say during an outbreak of foodborne illness.
The U.K. Times reports that Britain’s Food Standards Agency (FSA) was investigating possible links between vegetable seeds supplied by a British company and an outbreak of E coli in south-west France.
French authorities have identified Thompson & Morgan, a British mail order seed and plant company, as being the supplier of seeds from which rocket, fenugreek and .jpg)
mustard vegetable sprouts were grown and served at a party at a creche near Bordeaux.
Ipswich-based Thomson & Morgan told the BBC in a statement it was "highly unlikely" the seeds were responsible.
The company had sold "thousands of packets and have had no reported problems." It was more likely that "the way that they were used and handled" had caused the contamination.
What Thomson & Morgan may want to say is a detailed accounting of where the sprout seeds are grown and all the fabulous food safety steps that are taken by the producers and distributors, including test results of germinated seeds to verify the controls are working.
And the Brits just announced sprouted seeds should only be eaten if they have been cooked thoroughly until steaming hot throughout; they should not be eaten raw.
Steaming hot, piping hot, whatever that means. And does not warn against the risk of cross-contamination while handling those little natural plants in a home or food service kitchen. Get rid of them.
A table of international sprout outbreaks is available at http://bites.ksu.edu/sprouts-associated-outbreaks.
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland gets it right, and said this morning, don’t eat sprouts.
The German outbreak of E. coli O104 that has killed 45 and sickened some 3,800 has now spread to the Bordeaux region of southern France and sickened at least 10 people.
The N.Y. Times reports this morning what food safety types have been saying all along: a common supplier sprout seed might be the ultimate source of the E. coli O104 and if those seeds are still in circulation, other outbreaks could occur.
William E. Keene, a senior epidemiologist at the Oregon Public Health Division, said it was urgent to find out if the seeds used by the German grower had come from the .jpg)
same source as the seeds linked to the French cases.
At least five of the French cases involved kidney failure, and tests on two of those people showed they were infected with the O104:H4 strain. The eight people infected in the Bègles area were adults, age 31 to 78. In addition, two children were sickened in another town and they were presumed also to have E. coli infections, although it was not clear if they had the same strain.
The source of the bean sprouts or the seeds from which they were sprouted is not known at this time and is the subject of ongoing investigation. The implicated bean sprouts are unlikely to have originated in the German organic bean sprout farm as this farm is closed and it is known not to have exported bean sprouts.
This raises the possibility that contaminated seeds are on the market. Therefore as a precautionary measure, and until investigations are concluded, FSAI advises, for the time being that consumers should not to eat raw bean sprouts or other sprouted seeds and caterers should not serve raw bean sprouts or other sprouted seeds.
Who knows what kind of crap is sprouting by your kitchen windowsill or in your herb garden.
Given the number of dead and dying related to this outbreak, the traceback has been an enormous failure.
A table of international sprout outbreaks is available at http://bites.ksu.edu/sprouts-associated-outbreaks.