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Koala March Cookies
The Lotte Company, Battle Creek, Michigan, is recalling all of its Koala March cookies because they were manufactured in China and “may” contain melamine.
The cookies were distributed nationwide and in Canada. The recall includes nine different brands, according to the FDA.

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Aunt Mid’s Produce Co. is denying that its lettuce was the source of an e. coli outbreak that sickened some three dozen Michiganders.
The Detroit company is basing its defense against a lawsuit on Michigan Agriculture Department findings that say the lettuce was clean. However, a statement for the department says that their tests were based on lettuce [...]

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The number of E. coli cases linked to iceberg lettuce processed in Detroit has risen to 35, according to the Detroit News.
The company, Aunt Mid’s, has suspended shipments while it continues to search for the source of the E. coli. The lettuce was only shipped to restaurants and institutions, not to grocery stores.
Five people have [...]

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The number of cases of e. coli infection at Michigan State University has risen to 23, though public health officials haven’t yet tied them all to the same strain.
The source has not been located either though school officials say that all of the additional cases are from “the original epidemic,” so they are expecting the [...]

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The E. coli outbreak traced to Kroger and Nebraska Beef, which had been contained to Ohio and Michigan, has recently mysteriously affected three people who live away from those states.
One case, in Kentucky, is close to the Ohio border, but the other victims — in Indiana and New York — have not gone near [...]

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In addition to the ground beef it has removed from its stores in Michigan and Ohio, Kroger Co. is removing some ground-beef products from its Smith’s Food & Drug stores in Utah. The company is removing all beef products produced by one of its suppliers, Nebraska Beef, from all its stores in 20 states.
The E. [...]

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The grocery chain, Kroger Co., is recalling all of its ground beef products sold between May 21 and June 8 thoughout Michigan and Ohio. The beef was linked to an E. coli strain that has sickened several people in those two states, according to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Though none of the products [...]

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Sixteen cases of E. coli in central Ohio are being investigated by both federal and state officials, according to the Columbus Post-Dispatch. The source is expected to be identified by mid-week, but similar cases in Michigan are believed to be related to ground beef.

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The sad story of Paul Thurston explains a lot about why companies are so quick to recall products that have ingredients such as eggs or milk when they aren’t listed on the label.
While in jail, Thurston ate a peanut-butter sandwich, to which he is allergic and which killed him in a matter of minutes. The [...]

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