Unpasteurized cider strikes again; six sick in Iowa
In the fall of 1998, I accompanied one of my four daughters on a kindergarten trip to the farm. After petting the animals and touring the crops –I questioned the fresh manure on the strawberries –we...
View ArticleOshkosh to Green Bay and apple cider
While watching Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings lose to the Green Bay Packers last night (for about 5 minutes), and while wondering if Brett was a naughty boy with those text messages (for about...
View ArticleEven 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...
View ArticleRaw 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...
View ArticleUnpasteurized 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...
View Article4 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...
View ArticleAt 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...
View ArticleIt’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...
View Article7 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...
View ArticleBlame 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...
View Article30 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...
View ArticlePasteurization 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...
View ArticleEven 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...
View ArticleEven 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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