Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Officials with Publix Super Markets and Winn-Dixie said Monday that their Polk County stores do not carry the Spanish sausage being recalled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The USDA announced a recall Sunday of 720 pounds of “Los Galleguitos Primera Chorizos Spanish Brand Sausage” due to possible listeria bacteria contamination.…

June 27 2005
AP
MIAMI, FL – A New Jersey sausage firm is recalling 720 pounds of its Spanish sausage sold in Florida because of a possible listeria bacteria contamination. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced the recall Sunday.
The company, Los Galleguito is based in Union City, New Jersey.…

June 26, 2005
USDA – FSIS Recall Release
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Recall_029_2005_Release/index.asp
WASHINGTON – Los Galleguito, a Union City, N.J., firm, is voluntarily recalling approximately 720 pounds of Spanish sausage that may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The following are subject to recall:
8-ounce packages of “Los galleguitos Primera Chorizos Spanish Brand Sausage.”Continue Reading New Jersey firm recalls sausage for possible listeria contamination

6/27/2005
Berkshire Blue heading to stores
By Ellen G. Lahr, Berkshire Eagle Staff
Berkshire Eagle
GREAT BARRINGTON — Berkshire Blue, the specialty gourmet cheese that was recalled in March following discovery of a potentially dangerous bacteria, will be back on the market July 2.
Company proprietor Michael G. Miller said test results conducted by the AgriMark laboratory in West Springfield confirmed that the bacteria, listeria originated in the ”haylage” used by the dairy farmer who supplies his milk, not in his cheese production process.
He declined to identify his milk source, but said that the last 12 tests of the farmer’s supplies have been negative.Continue Reading Cheese makes comeback

Biological Agents
By Northwest Food Processors Association Food Safety News
Jun 25, 2005
Meat processors already know that dangerous Listeria monocytogenes bacteria can withstand some major assaults. They sanitize the food processing environment and heat their products to kill the bacteria on cooked and ready-to-eat meats, but a few of the bacteria are merely injured or starved and live to cause trouble another day.
They can do quite a bit of damage even after several months in a starved state, according to new research results. Ramakrishna Nannapaneni, a food science research associate for the University of Arkansas, has been exploring the issue for the Food Safety Consortium with a research team led by professor Mike Johnson. ìThere has been a tremendous effort to fi nd out virulence differences within Listeria monocytogenes for risk assessment needs,– Nannapaneni said, pointing to the bacterium’s damaged cells. ìThe next logical question is how long they remain virulent. That’s been the focus of our work.–Continue Reading The listeria that won’t die

Listeriosis is a serious infection caused by eating food contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. The disease affects primarily pregnant women, newborns and adults with weakened immune systems. It can be avoided by following a few simple recommendations.
What are the symptoms?
A person with listeriosis has fever, muscle aches and sometimes gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea or diarrhea. If infection spreads to the nervous system, symptoms such as headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance or convulsions can occur. Most healthy persons can consume contaminated foods without becoming ill.Continue Reading What is listeriosis?

Source of listeriosis fatal to Moore sought
By Andi Atwater
aatwater@news-press.com
Published by news-press.com on June 23, 2005
A rare bacteria that can cause meningitis has claimed the life of a well-known community activist and longtime Rotarian.
Robert “Bob” Moore, 79, died last Thursday after a sudden onset of headache and nausea pegged to what’s called the Listeria monocytogenes bacterium.
Lee County public health officials are trying to find its source.
The bacteria, which can cause a serious infection called listeriosis, is so rare that only about one in 200,000 people — mostly the elderly, pregnant or those with weakened immune systems — get ill from it.Continue Reading Rotary leader dies from rare bacteria

Posted on Fri, Jun. 17, 2005
SCIENCE FILE | THEA SINCLAIR
Good bacteria killed bad without antibiotics
Recently, I was invited to accompany Andrea, our veterinarian daughter, to the Georgia Veterinary Medical Association’s annual meeting. Andrea was going to present her current research at the Poultry Diagnostic Lab at University of Georgia.
Her work dealt with fighting bacterial infection in chickens without using antibiotics. Instead of antibiotics, Andrea implied other bacteria, using a principle called competitive exclusion. Before I can explain her project, I need to discuss animal-bacterial associations.Continue Reading Infection in chickens researched