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Raw is risky: unpasteurized apple cider glorified
From the we’ve-always-done-it-this-way-and-no-one-has-gotten-sick files, 78-year-old Doris Van Duyne Heddy Cooke of Montville, NJ, the co-owner of an apple farm and cider press that has operated since...
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Unpasteurized apple cider sickens 11 in Johnson County
In 1923, 24 people were sickened with Salmonella in unpasteurized apple cider. In 1993, 213 people were sickened with Cryptosporidium from unpasteurized cider in Maine. The complete list is here. But...
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4 sickened: apple cider producer faces charges in Michigan year later
A northern Michigan farm owner faces criminal charges after at least four people who drank apple cider got sick. James Ruster of Mitchell Hill Farm in Antrim County is charged with knowingly making...
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At least three sick with E. coli O157 in Canada from unpasteurized apple cider
I confess. I experimented with something else while a university undergraduate: unpasteurized apple cider. The ex and I would go to the Guelph Farmer’s Market and stock up, including unpasteurized...
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It’s only been 18 years since Odwalla: Cider recall has producer on the...
When Amy provides some medical advice, I remind her she’s not a medical doctor or scientist, she’s a doctor of French professoring. So when a farmer says, one bad batch of unpasteurized apple cider...
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7 sick with E. coli: Unpasteurized apple cider recalled in California
In October, 1996, a 16-month-old in Denver drank Smoothie juice manufactured by Odwalla Inc. of Half Moon Bay, Calif. She died several weeks later; 64 others became ill in several western U.S. states...
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Blame consumers: Unpasteurized cider edition
As a Michigan cider mill became the latest to have its product test positive for Shiga-toxin producing E. coli, a statement has emerged from the owners of the California state cider producer linked to...
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30 now sick: Cider at Illinois fair
The Pike County Health Department and the Adams County Health Department along with the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is investigating a cluster of gastrointestinal (GI) illness...
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Pasteurization works, and don’t eat poop: 70 sickened with crypto from cow...
The cause of the cryptosporidiousis from the Pike County Fall Color Drive in apple cider is now known. A test done by the CDC on environmental and human specimens has confirmed that this illness was...
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Even pasteurized cider gets the bugs
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume the Richardson’s Farm Market brand Pasteurized Apple Cider described below, because the product may be contaminated with...
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