Jif peanut butter is being recalled for potential salmonella contamination

To see if your jar of Jif peanut butter is being recalled, check the lot number that is printed below the "Best if Used by" date on the label. Products with lot codes 1274425 – 2140425, with the digits 425 in the 5th-7th position, are being recalled.

 How to safely handle food and avoid salmonella

You have a very important role to play in the safety of the foods you consume. And the household kitchen is really the last line of defence before you actually eat a food!

 The Jif peanut butter recall is pulling a cascade of other products from store shelves

Salmonella is a type of bacteria. When it infects people, it causes an illness called salmonellosis, with symptoms including diarrhea, nausea, fever and stomach cramps. The illness can be more severe for children under 5 and for elderly or vulnerable adults, sometimes requiring treatment or hospitalization. The symptoms' onset and duration vary widely, but most people first experience them between six hours and six days after being infected, the CDC says. The illness then normally lasts up to a week.

 Why salmonella is a food poisoning killer that won’t go away in the US

Current regulations for salmonella in poultry are “antiquated”, says Brian Ronholm, director of food policy for the US non-profit organisation Consumer Reports, who has called for stronger enforceable standards over the salmonella strains that pose the greatest public health risk.

A New Clue to the Mystery Disease That Once Killed Most of Mexico

The presence of Salmonella in cocoliztl victims has provoked more questions than it has answered, and the wide applications of this technique to ancient microbes may prompt yet more questions about our ancestors that we did not know to ask.

America Is Sick of Chicken

Winner winner, chicken dinner? Not anymore. Chicken is the most consumed meat in the United States but it is literally making us sick.

Backyard Chickens Carry a Hidden Risk: Salmonella

Salmonella is a bacterial disease people often associate with eating raw cookie dough and other products with undercooked eggs or meat. But it can also be contracted when people put their hands, or equipment, that has been in contact with live poultry, in or around their mouth. Risk of that type of contact increases as backyard birds become more popular. That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t get backyard birds...

Canada Takes The Lead In Dealing With Salmonella

A large team of researchers have developed a new system called SalFoS, which they believe may be able to help prevent foodborne outbreaks in the future.

Collapse of Aztec Society Linked to Catastrophic Salmonella Outbreak

DNA of 500-year-old bacteria is first direct evidence of an epidemic — one of humanity's deadliest — that occurred after Spanish conquest.

Don't Get Too Close To Your Chickens, Ducks And Geese

Don't snuggle with chickens, ducks or geese. I know what you are thinking: There go your weekend plans. But you're not alone.

Go Ahead, Lick That Spoon

I’ve consumed 360 raw eggs in my life and have never gotten salmonella poisoning. Here’s why.

Here’s What You Need to Know About the Salmonella Outbreak in Melons

Do you have to give up melon? Nope, you can still enjoy this healthy treat. But if you’re getting pre-cut melon, make sure it’s not part of the recall.

How Much E. Coli, Salmonella Or Other Outbreaks Could Cost A Restaurant

Of course, you may already know that making your customers sick isn't good for business. No restaurant wants to be known as the home of diarrhea or by the phrase "vomit, vomit" or "you deserve an ache today."

How to Prevent Salmonella Poisoning (Salmonellosis)

Know the Do's & Don'ts to prevent salmonella infection.

Illegal Trade In Tiny Pet Turtles Keeps Spreading Salmonella

People don't understand that turtles can "appear perfectly happy, healthy and clean" and still carry salmonella, says Casey Barton Behravesh, a veterinarian with the CDC and an author of the study.

Is Your Meat Safe?

Many health experts have raised concerns that the use of antibiotics in the meat and poultry industry -- whether to promote growth or prevent illness -- may contribute to the emergence of new drug-resistant bacteria.

Life as a Restaurant Health Inspector Is Full of Dead Mice and Salmonella

There's the classic mistake of slicing raw meat on a cutting board and then using that same cutting board to cut vegetables—salmonella served fresh from the barrel. That's just one example.

Outraged by Pink Slime? Actually, Chicken Could Be a Much Bigger Risk

According to Consumer Reports, "two-thirds [of store-bought chickens] harbored salmonella and/or campylobacter, the leading bacterial causes of foodborne disease."

Pediatric Salmonella Infection

Infections due to Salmonella species represent a major public health problem in many countries. In the United States, nontyphoidal Salmonella (NTS) is the most common pathogen implicated in food-borne gastroenteritis. In most cases, NTS is a self-limiting disease that causes mild gastroenteritis; however, it can lead to a wide spectrum of complications including bacteremia, enterocolitis, and severe local infections such as meningitis and osteomyelitis.

Salmonella Infection in Emergency Medicine

Salmonella has a widespread distribution in the environment and certain host factors make humans particularly susceptible to infection. Its increasing antimicrobial resistance, prevalence, virulence, and adaptability are a challenge worldwide.

Salmonella Outbreaks Relentlessly Beat Down on the United States

The bacteria are responsible for about 1.2 million infections in the United States on an annual basis; food is often the source for the majority of cases.

Salmonella Outbreaks: Who's Watching the Hens?

Salmonella outbreaks will continue to occur despite new regulations aimed at minimizing hen and egg exposure. Stay egg smart. Forego those raw eggs in your next Caesar and don't forget to keep your reuseable bags clean!

Salmonella – Myths and Facts

There are a number of common ways Salmonella bacteria can come into contact with people, and also foods that can make people sick from Salmonellosis due to contamination.

Salmonella, the CDC and Handling Pet Chickens

The CDC is blaming a recent salmonella outbreak on backyard poultry owners’ affection for their birds. We find some of their advice a little disingenuous, though.

Thanks a Lot! New Reasons Not to Eat Cookie Dough

Because of concerns over raw eggs, precautions have long existed for licking batter-laced spoons and nibbling homemade cookie dough. But the new results expand both the array of raw goods to be concerned about — even homemade playdough! — and the reasons to be vigilant.

To Prevent Disease, Stop Kissing and Snuggling Your Chickens

Backyard flocks blamed for number of salmonella outbreaks.

How salmonella-tainted food gets into your fridge

Salmonella infections are the most common cause of foodborne illnesses in the US. More than a million Americans get sick every year, and nearly 400 die from their infections. Compare that to the more well-known E. coli, which only kills 20 Americans each year. That difference has a lot to do with how the two bacteria are regulated.

How to safely handle food and avoid salmonella

Check meats with a meat thermometer ensuring they reach an internal temperature of 71C for burgers, 74C for poultry parts and 82C for whole birds.

America’s Food Safety System Failed to Stop a Salmonella Epidemic. It’s Still Making People Sick.

For years, a dangerous salmonella strain has sickened thousands and continues to spread through the chicken industry. The USDA knows about it. So do the companies. And yet, contaminated meat continues to be sold to consumers.

How Do Tomatoes Get Salmonella?

From poop to produce. Salmonella and E. coli poisoning used to be primarily associated with the consumption of undercooked meat. But that’s changing, as produce-related outbreaks become more common and more widely publicized.

How does salmonella get into eggs?

It may seem that since the inside of an egg is protected by a shell that the whites and the yolk would be protected from salmonella, but contamination usually happens before the shell forms. It occurs when a hen's ovary or oviduct are infected with the salmonella.

How salmonella gets into flour, or, why you shouldn’t eat that cookie dough

We are all accustomed to hearing about salmonella outbreaks in raw poultry or eggs. But salmonella outbreaks in dry foods like flour are not at all uncommon.

More Than Papayas - And What You Need To Know About Salmonella And Food Outbreaks

It’s not just from raw eggs or chickens. There was even a notable outbreak due to peanut butter. Besides food, there are episodic outbreaks from pet turtles. Typically, symptoms of diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps begin 12 to 72 hours after infection, and the illness resolves on its own after 4 to 7 days. People at particular risk are the very young and elderly, and those with immunosuppression.

Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Infection in Children: Influence of Antibiotic Therapy on Postconvalescent Excretion and Clinical Course—A Systematic Review

In the majority of cases with uncomplicated NTS diarrhea, clinicians should refrain from applying antibiotics.

Nontyphoidal Salmonella Infections

In uncomplicated nontyphoidal Salmonella gastroenteritis, antibiotics do not hasten resolution of symptoms, may prolong excretion of the organism, and are unwarranted.

Peanut Butter and Salmonella

Yes. Poultry, meat, and eggs provide the most common source of salmonella infection and the associated disease “salmonellosis.” The bacteria live in animals like cattle and birds and can easily be passed along in raw animal products. But the feces of infected animals can also contaminate many other foods, like fresh fruits and vegetables.

Salmonella infections in Canadian children

Non-typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) infections are primarily transmitted by contaminated food or water or contact with carrier animals (particularly reptiles), and present with diarrhea. Antibiotics do not decrease the severity or duration of diarrhea and may increase the incidence of NTS carriage, so they should only be used with suspected or proven bacteremia or invasive infection

Seriously Though, Why Are All These Salmonella Outbreaks Happening?

Lately, the news seems to be clogged up with stinky situations: salmonella outbreaks. But how and why do these outbreaks occur, and who is to blame for our intestinal disasters, especially with the Food Safety Modernization Act in play?