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UPDATE, July 27, 2012: The final tally is 425 people sicked in 28 states by salmonella-tainted raw scraped ground tuna, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
Nearly 400 people in 27 states and the District of Columbia have now been sickened by an outbreak of two rare strains of salmonella detected in raw tuna products used in sushi and other dishes, health officials said.
Some 390 have become ill and 47 have been hospitalized, up from 316 confirmed infections and 37 hospitalizations in May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed. No deaths have been reported.
The outbreak includes 14 people sickened by salmonella Nchanga and 376 people sickened by salmonella Bareilly, both rare strains of the foodborne pathogen. The culprit has been identified as raw Nakaochi Scrape tuna product produced by Moon Marine USA Corp. of Cupertino, Calif.
In April, Moon Marine recalled 58,828 pounds of the frozen tuna product. It wasn't for sale to individual customers, but may have been used to make sushi, sashimi, ceviche and similar dishes in restaurants and grocery stores.
The numbers of new cases have declined substantially since the peak of the outbreak in April, CDC officials said. Illnesses may continue, however, because some food establishments may be unaware that they received recalled product and continue to serve the raw yellowfin tuna scraped from the backbone of the fish. It has a long shelf life.
Seattle food safety lawyer Bill Marler has called on the federal Food and Drug Administration to release the names of all restaurants and other outlets where the contaminated product was distributed. FDA officials did not immediately respond to questions about the action.
Some 390 have become ill and 47 have been hospitalized, up from 316 confirmed infections and 37 hospitalizations in May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed. No deaths have been reported.
The outbreak includes 14 people sickened by salmonella Nchanga and 376 people sickened by salmonella Bareilly, both rare strains of the foodborne pathogen. The culprit has been identified as raw Nakaochi Scrape tuna product produced by Moon Marine USA Corp. of Cupertino, Calif.
In April, Moon Marine recalled 58,828 pounds of the frozen tuna product. It wasn't for sale to individual customers, but may have been used to make sushi, sashimi, ceviche and similar dishes in restaurants and grocery stores.
The numbers of new cases have declined substantially since the peak of the outbreak in April, CDC officials said. Illnesses may continue, however, because some food establishments may be unaware that they received recalled product and continue to serve the raw yellowfin tuna scraped from the backbone of the fish. It has a long shelf life.
Seattle food safety lawyer Bill Marler has called on the federal Food and Drug Administration to release the names of all restaurants and other outlets where the contaminated product was distributed. FDA officials did not immediately respond to questions about the action.
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Guess I should avoid the chopped "Spicy Tuna" sushi for a while, and only get sushi that has recognizable whole pieces of fish, but I still will eat sushi.
NO ONE CARES.
A bit testy and gratuitously negative e are we today, Gare-oh?
People getting sick from eating raw fish? Who'd've thunk it? I'm guessing these people also don't know that eating raw chicken will do the same thing to them. Dumbasses, the lot of 'em.
i lik'a the chop suey...remember to tun'a your piano...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjlT3Q42gA8
Noting the taste of tuna, who can refuse such a delicacy?
yoomama has some tuna for you.
i much prefer... the taste of honey...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vp6CsgncKw
Rhodes- chicken and sushi are compared to a snowball and a glass of warm water. Ck. the difference- ask a novice science student??
Well if you'd quit drinking and stay out of the sushi bars you wouldn't hit so much bad tuna.
...and Whipped Cream and other Delights, thanks for the clip plain bob!
The ate not one, but two cans of that BAD TUNA in one serving. It didn't smell or taste bad, but at 2:38 in the morning I was awaken due to my stomach feeling awful. I had to go to the hospital and was treated with an IV.
Not one but TWO BAGS.
Never had food poisoning and I must add. I hope I never have it again.
That's unrelated to this, UL68.
UL68- Canned tuna comes already cooked. And two bags of what, saline?
eat raw fish ----- get sick -----who would have thunk it
Eat a McDonalds burger, fries and coke --- die --- who would have thunk it
Um, Dude, more than half of the 6+ Billion people on Earth regularly consume foods containing raw meats and fishes:
Some traditional raw meat dishes:
ceviche
hoe
carne cruda
sashimi
carpaccio
steak tartare
conch
kibbeh nayeh
poke
oysters
chee kufta
crudo
kitfo
poisson cru (gotta LOVE that name)
mett
sakura
yukhoe
kuai
gored gored
gravlax http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravlax
And i bet someone somewhere has died from all of them
When you crawl out from under that rock you live under read about the Japanese who have been eating raw fish for a couple of thousand years.
And in all those years they were not dumping raw sewage in the ocean and they did not have unscrupulous fishmonger who only think about profit like we do in the US. Other day lady next door asked me to look at something She had bough som packaged hamburger at he local grrocery store she showed me that in the center of the beef was a line of really brown hamberger that was actually offensive to smell. So profit is ahead of safety today because of the profit picture. Japan has stricter laws governing how food is handled and are not driven by the industry as uch as we are here.
'breadex' wrote:
I think you are probably right. Although I would be awfully hard pressed to figure out how that statement has any relevance, unless of course you wish to add to the list every food that someone has ever died from eating (cooked or uncooked).
Seems to me that I remember a certain recent President of the United States who while watching a ballgame on TV almost died in the White House after eating Pork Rinds.
Gosh, do you suppose maybe they were (horrors) uncooked Pork Rinds????
Or maybe the White House bought them from an unscrupulous pork rinds-monger who only thought about profit!!!
=)
and you wonder why asians have shlt breath
Robert in Oregon, thanks for bringing a little sanity to a thread of mostly inane and valueless posts.... gotta wonder about some of these comments...
'jw-336392' wrote:
Response: No, 'jw-336392', I can't say that I have ever wondered that; especially given that it's an untrue statement of the kind which comes from the mind of a bigot.
But I have OFTEN wondered why bigots have s**t for brains?
jw-33692, I also haven't wondered that, nor have I noticed any particular race having more incidents of bad breath than any other... What a weird comment.
Robert in Oregon, Thanks for the laugh :)
Pay Attention: IT'S RAW FISH, MORONS!!!
NO FRICKING WONDER YOU'RE SICK, IDIOTS!!!
I rest my case...
In Carolina, we call it BAIT...
@Jim and flames
When you crawl out from under that rock you live under read about the Japanese who have been eating raw fish for a couple of thousand years...almost as old as the rock you call home. Nevermind the millions of Americans that eat raw fish every day.
Don't worry though...those Marlboros you suck down everyday are much safer.
Hey derpy, Sushi is *not* raw fish. Sashimi is raw, sushi is not. You're connected to the single most ambitious and largest repository of human knowledge mankind has ever concieved and yet you still selectively choose to be an idiot. Amazing.
thestuffmaker25,
"the Japanese who have been eating raw fish for a couple of thousand years"
Yes, but you failed to include in your post the number of Japanese who have died over the past 2,000 years from eating raw fish, especially the Blowfish, I think it's called, the one that's poisonous unless it is cleaned properly.
You evidently don't understand what you can and can't eat that harms you. I would bet anything you put worse things in your stomach than sushi. Get educated before you post any other remarks on something you know nothing about. Just for your information, the RAW fish is NOT the culprit. It the way the fish is handled and how long it has been around.
I can see all the raw fish lovers are deeply offended.
I was watching a documentary on some middle american family and i think the dad was cooking sloppy joe. He was cooking ground beef and put a bottle of ketchup into it. If that is what you people eat in order to stay "healthy", ill eat the raw fish.
kun,
Enjoy your salmonella! Far be it from me to keep you away from it.
Mickey, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC):
How do people catch Salmonella?
Salmonella live in the intestinal tracts of humans and other animals, including birds. Salmonella are usually transmitted to humans by eating foods contaminated with animal feces. Contaminated foods usually look and smell normal. Contaminated foods are often of animal origin, such as beef, poultry, milk, or eggs, but any food, including vegetables, may become contaminated. Thorough cooking kills Salmonella. Food may also become contaminated by the hands of an infected food handler who did not wash hands with soap after using the bathroom.
Salmonella may also be found in the feces of some pets, especially those with diarrhea, and people can become infected if they do not wash their hands after contact with pets or pet feces. Reptiles, such as turtles, lizards, and snakes, are particularly likely to harbor Salmonella. Many chicks and young birds carry Salmonella in their feces. People should always wash their hands immediately after handling a reptile or bird, even if the animal is healthy. Adults should also assure that children wash their hands after handling a reptile or bird, or after touching its environment.
How common is salmonellosis (salmonella)?
Every year, approximately 40,000 cases of salmonellosis are reported in the United States. Because many milder cases are not diagnosed or reported.
The actual number of infections may be thirty or more times greater (= 1.2 Million or more annually). Salmonellosis is more common in the summer than winter.
Children are the most likely to get salmonellosis. The rate of diagnosed infections in children less than five years old is about five times higher than the rate in all other persons. Young children, the elderly, and the immunocompromised are the most likely to have severe infections. It is estimated that approximately 400 persons die each year with acute salmonellosis.
Enjoy your ignorance! Far be it from me to keep you away from it.
Nice piece but what does it mean. Spinach ended up with ecoli because they were using water from a stream to wash it that had a cattle slaughtering plant upstream. Every time better laws on food handling comes up here it gets shot down. Testin is after the fact sometimes after the product is consumed and people get sick. I eat sushi on occasion but the guy that makes it runs a test on the fish he buys before he uses it.
Robert in Oregon,
"Thorough cooking kills Salmonella."
That is the point I was getting at.
Mickey... let me guess... you are liberal, receive lots of govt benefits, and spend most of your food stamps on junk food. Am I right? lol
Pride and Joy,
"Mickey... let me guess... you are liberal, receive lots of govt benefits, and spend most of your food stamps on junk food. Am I right? lol"
I'm sorry to inform you, but you are wrong on every single count. You're not a very good judge of character.
It's a tradition in offshore fishing to cut the heart out of the first tuna you've ever caught & take a bite out of it. At least you know it's fresh. :0)
I tried some California roll once I couldn't swallow it, that's the worst tasting thing I've ever tried.
California roll is not real sushi.
Your right about that. It is the SPAM of the "sushi" world.
Somewhat Obviously,
While I'm sorry for the people who were sickened by eating that sushi ... It bears noting that these are the things that happen to folks when they choose to consume uncooked bait. Case closed.
Peace
sushi is 'uncooked bait'?
Sorry to disappoint, but perhaps you've never enjoyed sushi!
Fish can also have parasites. Eating raw anything these days is risky.
it's so dry here in arkansas...the fish have tick's...
LOL!
lol
and the fish in the Anacostia River have tumors.
A year or two ago, pistachio nuts caused a salmonella outbreak... it's not the product, but perhaps the preparation of the product that is harmful!
Since every case of this traces back to a specific company, clearly the preparation is to blame.
sushi is SOOOO 1997...
Your perception of sushi is so 1998.
Um, before more of you go casting aspersions, Humans are the only animals that cook fish before eating it. Just food for thought (pun intended).
uhh the sharks, etc, dont have someone. ie . illegal. disgusting poor hygien human, handling the fishy before he eats it.
Robert
Wild animals don't have their fish processed and handled by low paid, careless, unsanitary humans and many have digestive systems that can handle pathogens.
Well, Rontron, without responding to your derisive put-down of people who work for a living ... even Raccoons are smart enough to wash their food before eating it; however I have yet to see one in an apron and stoking the barbecue.
The preparation of Sushi is an art, the results are DELICIOUS ... and occurrences of illness are rare (typically resulting from the improper refrigeration of an ingredient; much like getting sick from the potato salad at a picnic).
Most of the ignorant reaction I have seen to Sushi comes from people who have never even tasted it.
;-)
PS. Oh, and by the way, for all of the judgmental and ignorant contributors to this thread making references to those eating "sushi" being foolish and deserving to get sick, here's a clue:
"Sushi" is not raw fish. "Sushi" is cooked, vinegared rice combined with other ingredients; sometimes including uncooked seafoods. The Japanese word for raw fish is "Sashimi". If you want to prove your ignorance it always helps your case if you don't even use the correct terms. Well done, knuckleheads.
Why don't you folks take your ignorance and go pick on Americans who eat Oysters Rockefeller and Steak Tartare, and leave the Sushi lovers to their chosen treat! I don't care if YOU won't try it; that's just more for me!! =)
imanutskie ' wrote:
RESPONSE: Really, 'imanutskie'? You turned a discussion thread about salmonella poisoning into a back-door condemnation of "illegals"???
"Well, isn't THAT special?" Thanks for displaying the true content of your character , Troll.
where's the ole rob...that didn't condemn...a different point of view...lighten up...
Well, Bob, if you characterize intolerance and politicizing every article to push an agenda as "a different point of view" then ... I plead guilty of condemning it. You got me.
Surprisingly, in this circumstance, it doesn't make me feel especially contrite. Must be evidence of MY OWN character flaw, hmm?
;-)
PS. Point taken, Bob. Thanks for the reminder. Time for a Friday night cocktail ...and some Sushi.
Robert see how you like this article from the UK.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-381958/Sushi--raw-truth.html
Rontron see how you like this article from the UK.
http://skeptipedia.blogspot.com/2008/05/more-idiocy-from-danny-penman-of-daily.html
Here are a few more of the Daily Mail articles written by the Sushi expert (AKA: tabloid writer) you cite to support your opinion:
"The 21st century badger baiters: They plot their sick fights on the internet, film them on mobiles and have bred a lethal new superdog to rip their prey to pieces"
By DR. DANNY PENMAN
"My broken leg healed in half the time... all because I meditated"
By DR. DANNY PENMAN
"Can you kill a goat by staring into its eyes?"
By DR. DANNY PENMAN
"The sinister images caught on camera that could prove poltergeists DO exist"
By DR. DANNY PENMAN
"Can we really transplant a human soul?"
By DR. DANNY PENMAN
"Could hypnotism be the future of surgery?"
By DR. DANNY PENMAN
You getting the point here, Rontron? You might also want to read the Wiki about "The Daily Mail" to see the nature of the publication you are citing as a source. It's a tabloid which competes with Rupert Murdoch's "The Sun" for sensationalism.
Next time why don't you just cite "The National Enquirer". They had a really good scientific article a couple of months ago about A Space Alien that Ate a Schoolgirl's Homework!!!
I'm just sayin' ....
Rob't in Oregon... trying to reason with the uninformed is an unrewarding experience, trust me!
Bill T from USA wrote:
Hi Bill.
Well, yes, I take your point. But I guess it's more of a subjective thing, i.e., how one defines "rewarding." Given the cost for a movie theater ticket these days .... not to mention the ticket upcharge for a "3-D" film (although the headache is still free), sometimes I would just rather sit here at my keyboard and draw my jollies from arguing with idiots and bigots.
And if I do this while wearing my pair of 3-D glasses that I swiped from the Regal Cinemas, it's sort of the Internet Discussion Thread "E-Ticket." When wearing those glasses, and someone posts something so outrageous, so blatantly stupid and/or intollerant that it just jumps off the screen at me, ...there is the tendency to duck!!!
;-)
Guess since it looks like it's the eater's fault for eating "raw" food, nobody should feel bad if a person gets salmonella from "raw" fruits and vegetables. Guess you should have cooked that lettuce. Should have heated that canteloupe to 165F internal temperature.
Finally a rational person. Thank you Matt. The rest of you are so ugly american it smells.
Matt does make a great point...but robiscoole...I'm offended as are "the rest you" that you chose to judge....and never give it a thought...Compliment child...compliment...don't tear down...makes rob not cool...
You do not need to cook fruits to render them safe to eat. You wash them. You wash vegetables also. You may need to cook them to make them edible for humans. The cantaloupe farmer used the wrong equipment to process the fruit which vastly increased the risk of illness. He violated long established processes to reduce the risk of illness. The lettuce and spinach problems were more complex. It was not entirely clear that even if you washed every individual leaf of spinach or lettuce you would have avoided the illness. And cooking may not have provided protection either.
I have been through survival training courses and it has always been stated to cook any seafood or game captured in a survival situation if possible. Cook using fire or a solar cooker, if you can make one out of the items you have with you in a survival situation. The same should apply to everyday food use of seafood or meat. The fire or heat is readily available, so use it.
@ robiscoole
Ugly American?????...maybe.....
...hospitalized for eating bait fish......
.....SORRY....you've got the wrong guy.....not me.....
All you posters that are posting about "Raw" food being the culprit, get and education. Then come back and post so your IQ doesn't look so low
It was not cooked spoils easily and better not consumed unless you are sure of the source that sells it. You can buy sushi in the corner drug store now days in some places. All from one souce and if that source does not do their job a lot of people pay for it all because of profit
Any retailer or restaurant that doesn't know where it's product comes from when there is a very visible recall deserves heavy penalties.
It would of been nice if it was congress and all those good for nothing politicians who gotten sick!
I'll go with that !
I second that.
I like my sushi fried.
Broiled or baked.
catfish deep fried in cajun batter...with corn bread and beans Louisiana hot sauce on it...big ole glass of buttermilk...hmmm hmmmm good...
Sure, it's much better. So you can't actually taste the fish.
part of sickness in this world.
don't you think... it's a little fishy...
I can only think of 1 thing I eat raw and it is'nt sushi :)
Not lest it's ripe...
He or she may have given you salmonella or herpes. Get tested.
No HEAT - No EAT !!!!
MAYBE using a dental dam.......
But it's sooooo good. It's worth the risk! Sushi would be my last meal if I were a condemned man.
Man discovered fire thousands or tens of thousands of years ago. Since that time it is irrational and illogical to eat raw meat or fish.
i think you that info from Spock...
Sushi is supposed to be super fresh best cuts. Previously frozen? Scraped from the backbone? Yechhh!!! That type of crap should never be used in sushi, certainly not for the prices they charge! I wouldn't accept that stuff for free if I knew! Yechhh!!!
Friskie's sells it by the can...
Sushi should be made with superior cuts of meat, but it should also be frozen. Freezing sushi meat overnight is how you kill any potential parasites without cooking it, and it works. Unfortunately, once you start to use processed foods like this 'scrape' garbage you start to introduce a number of new contamination sources. A good sushi chef, who uses only whole cuts and freezes the meat overnight and can recognize good fish (vs something not appropriate for sushi due to a number of conditions), can prevent these things from happening.
Sushi is awesome.
Most USA citizens want gold for the price of rust. Look at how they destroyed domestic air travel with their never ending quest for the lowest airfare. Fools who keep demanding lower prices for seafood products get low grade farmed products with artificial colors and waste products.The best cuts go to those who know real value and are willing pay for it.
ahh the only sushi i eat is what i catch .never ever at a restaurant . as for the veges , well when you have illegals picking, sorting, etc .and doing their business in the fields what the hell do you expect.
Wow, 'imanutskie', you're on a roll tonight. Please, tell us where you "catch" your cooked, vinegared rice (AKA: Sushi") ... or do you just not have a clue what you are talking about?
Oops, never mind. You answered my question with your second statement: the intolerant, bigoted statement citing "illegals" as the problem (at least the second time you made that same ignorant statement in this same discussion thread).
Yep, question answered. You're just a totally clueless Troll. Embarrass your family much?
Baja is correct. There is was a study done to show about parasite in fish. Freezing it or cooking it well done will kill the parasites, Ceviche is actually bad (cooking with lemon juice) on raw shrimp and doesn't get all the parasites, raw fish that is fresh also has parasites.
Raw tuna with a long shelf life....
Does not seem fresh at all.
hahahahahahahaahha next time cook it......other wise its bait
Let them eat bait.
You probably don't eat monkey brains, cow tongue and lamb eyes either, because you were raised to eat regular Meat(beef) and potatoes. Let's see who lives the longest without heart of cholesterol problems
How much nuke waste is in it also, remember the NRC has raised the amount of radation by 100 to 200 % in the last year. Pac raw fish also has been reported by private ex employees who worked in nuke plants have reported the very high level of the Japan's nuke waste im every thing from fish to fruit & vegs & sea weed. I will stay with my own home grown food, no corporate food for me. All these 3 headed birds & freash water fish with 3 eyes & two tails so it swims in a circle! At least it could see he was going no were fast & saw some bait on a hook & landed in the boat. Funny the cats would not eat not one bite, does that tell you some thing. A dog & animals can sense danger, but humans beleive what the gov tells you, so eat up & glow in the dark, cancer via the NRC & one lie on top of another.
JAPAN IS A TIME BOMB WAITING TO GO OFF & 100'S IN THE USA ARE IN BAD SHAPE & SHOULD BE CLOSED LONG AGO, BUT PROFITS OUT WEIGH YOUR HEALTH!
I know of very few posters whose screen name suits them as well as yours does you simpleman.......
If there is nuclear waste in your fish, cooking it will not help.
Okay.....Do you have room in your dream cave for one more?
The question that plagues me is, Why are we finding out in June about a nationwide outbreak of Salmonella that happened in April? D'ya think some of the 400 would have liked a heads-up on the sushi problem BEFORE they ate it, CDC?
Bad labeling regulations. The fish may go through 10 middlemen brokers before it gets to the store or restaurant We need a automated or durable tag on each shipment that tells exactly each step in the path from location of catch to store or restaurant. It takes time to sort all that out with manual paper records and uncoordinated tracking systems. Also the massive fraud in seafood can cause the investigators to chase the wrong leads. A lot of fillets are labeled as a fish species they are not in order to get a higher price from the customer. What do you imagine happens with a product made from flakes and scrapes of fish? Even greater fraud.
The news broke in April, and I commented on it then originally. The article was being updated almost daily then. Were you asleep?
Same types of idiots in the original comments too, blaming the people eating the factory-contaminated food.
Just because you don't know about something, doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
Wait a minute... "tainted" sushi?
Wouldn't that be redundant?
I though journalists were supposed to catch that sort of thing in the editing process.
...should've ordered the fugu.....
People tend to be short sighted when told that something is trendy or popular. I laugh at the morons who insist on sea salt. The oceans are so polluted that I don't want to eat salt that carries the pollutants with it. Mined salt which is what we have been eating for years ( you know the Diamond Chrystal type) comes from salt deposits deep in the earth that are at least 250,000 years old and were laid down by evaporating seas before there was any pollution. Which would you rather put in your body?
Sea salt tastes better to me, so I go with sea salt.
If you bothered to ever learn about anything, you'd know that sea salt has been used for thousands of years.
i ate sushi once that was enough.
Stick Man,
"i ate sushi once that was enough."
So did I, and it was enough for me, too! I guess that's what you get when you eat raw fish. I say, "Cook it, people!"