Blog — listeria

You have twice the risk of getting sick if you eat out vs. eating at home. And man did I find that out the hard way. It was 6:30 am, and I had been throwing up every 5-10 minutes for two and a half hours. Just leave me here in a corner balled up like a fetus and let me die in peace, is all I could think. That’s how I felt two days ago when I got the worst case of food poisoning in my life from a restaurant in Los Angeles the night before my ‘big pitch’. It...

I’m HEAPING mad. I mean….I’m FUMING over the news that is breaking across the internet right now about the Dole Federal investigation. I think you will be just as outraged when you hear what’s happening. According to Food Safety News, the U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Dole in relation to the Listeria monocytogenes outbreak that occurred in January 2016. Why the investigation? Well, apparently, Dole knew about the Listeria in their processing plants, and kept on producing leaving 33 people desperately ill and 4 dead in the wake of their disregard. This from the Food Safety News website: “Company...

Dr. Shawki Ibrahim, Ph.D.   On a seemingly regular basis, the news shares the traumatic effects of food borne illness on human lives and the companies impacted, as recently took place with Chipotle. Perhaps a more publicized case, but the fact remains, there are regular bacteria-related recalls of produce that go under the radar that are affecting people’s health consistently, which could otherwise be avoided with proper food washing education and dispelling the myths around unproven approaches.   Statistics show that only about 50% of consumers wash their fresh produce at all, and most of them use tap water. Lately,...

We all gotta’ eat. But how we eat can take a huge toll on our health. Did you know that there are over 48 million cases of food borne illness in the United States every year? Of that, 125,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths?! These numbers are insane and all contributed to the lack of food safety in and outside of the home. Everyone wants to have fun eating out, cooking amazing meals or dreaming of becoming the next Food Network Star but if you don’t know how to protect yourself and your family from food borne illness, it can be...