Entries from LAist tagged with 'ecoli'
July 3, 2008
Yesterday it was don't buy our beef, it's linked to E. Coli and we'll be back next week with good beef. But that doesn't play out well abut one of the biggest meat-eating American grilling holidays, does it? To that end, beef is being restocked and parent comapny Kroger says beef bought with sell-by dates May 21 through July 3 should be returned to the store for a replacement.......
Continue Reading "Ralphs Thwarts Recall Before 4th of July"July 2, 2008
It's going to be about a week until ground beef can be bought at area Ralphs grocery stores. 38 people in Ohio and Nebraska have fallen ill with E. Coli that was connected back to meat distributed by Kroger Co. (distributes to Ralphs) and made at Nebraska Beef Ltd. 531,707 pounds were recalled. The last beef recall that affected Southern California was earlier this year after a massive Westland/Hallmark meat recall scandal.......
Continue Reading "Beef Recall at Ralphs"May 14, 2007
A carefree Springtime waterparty turned tragic in Bakersfield when two kids who didn't know they had the E.Coli virus bacterium infected three others and possibly seven more including one adult. In a news conference on Monday, county health officials announced that two children were already sick when they attended the party and sickened other children, ABC23 reported. Officials said they are still trying to determine how the original two children got sick. Three children......
Continue Reading "Bakersfield Slip n Slide Party Spreads E. Coli"May 6, 2007
What with all the political hubbub brewing this year over issues like The War, immigration, abortion, political corruption, we’re pretty sure the Farm Bill is going to get the shaft as far as public conversation is concerned – just like in 2002, when its passing was totally overshadowed by 9/11 and the ensuing hysteria. Frankly, it’s a damn shame. This is one issue that actually has a chance of raising bipartisan support – even......
Continue Reading "A Call for Gastronomic Revolution: The Farm Bill and Why It Needs to Change"April 9, 2007
- Is is scarier that a homeless man was walking around downtown with a glock and pointing it at people while saying Bang - or an undercover cop? - Opinion LA - Nettie Berkson, 91, will attend her 50th consecutive home opener today at Dodger Stadium - Daily News - She's 102 years old, she's from Chico, and this weekend while you doing nothing, she hit a hole-in-one - Seattle Times - Third bald......
Continue Reading "AM News for your Deviled Egg Hangover"December 7, 2006
Farms are like NFL referees: if they're getting noticed, that's bad news. Bad news hit Oxnard's Boskovich Farms, when it was discovered that their green onions were part of the east coast E.coli incidents that caused dozens of people to get sick after eating at Taco Bell restaurants. In a statement that Boskovich posted on their website, the farm hints at the idea that the E.coli might have been developed at the "third party"......
Continue Reading "Oxnard Farm Possibly Responsible for Taco Bell Green Onion Sickness"October 13, 2006
Allow top-rated Howard Stern to leave, lose Brooke Burke to the hit show "Rockstar", replace red-carpet icon Joan Rivers with no-names, and give Ryan Seacrest $21 million to host a news show that loses ratings and what do you get? You now get to ruin G4. Heck of a job Ted - AP After Mel Gibson got popped for that DUI, he had beers for breakfast while explaining to his kids what he had......
Continue Reading "AM News for Friday the 13th Mwahahahaha"