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Restaurant Closes for a Week Due to a Texas Salmonella Outbreak According to reports from the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS), the X10 Woodfire Steakhouse Restaurant in Dalhart, Texas was voluntarily closed earlier this month, when more than 30 people became sick due to infections brought on by Salmonella contamination in Dalhart, with…

Defective Wheelchair Lifts Bring Heavy Fine, Extra NHTSA Oversight The U.S. Department of Transportation announced recently that it had agreed to a consent order with a California manufacturer of wheelchair lifts for buses, Ricon Corp. The consent order includes a $1.75 million civil penalty, as well as an increased level of oversight by the National Highway…

Tests Lead to Salmonella Dog Food Recalls This has not been a great week for pet food manufacturers, as two of them have had to issue voluntary recalls of food and treats because of the possibility that the food was contaminated with Salmonella. In one recall, Tuffy’s Pet Foods, Inc. is calling back certain lots…

Salmonella Spurs Texas Walnut Recall Dallas, Texas-based Hines Nut Company has issued a voluntary recall of some of its walnut products because of a fear that some of the products may be contaminated with Salmonella. The product was packaged by Hines, and sold by Biggs, California-based Gold State Nut Company. The concern about the possible contamination…

Aloha Protein Powders Recalled for Staphylococcal Food Poisoning Fear Project Healthy Living Inc., a New York company doing business as Aloha Inc., has issued a voluntary recall of its Premium Protein powder, which comes in vanilla and chocolate and vanilla blends. The recall was initiated because of a fear that some of these products…

Organic Seed Mix Recalled for Possible Salmonella Contamination Sometimes, trying to eat healthy foods is harder than it sounds, because some foods meant to be healthy for you are sometimes contaminated with unhealty bacteria. The latest example of this problem comes courtesy of San Jose, Caifornia-based Freeland Foods Inc., after they issued a voluntary…

Houston Metals Company Slammed With OSHA Violations Under both federal and state law, all employers, in Texas and elsewhere are required to maintain a safe and healthy workplace for all workers, regardless of the business they are in and regardless of the job a employee does. Despite the legal requirements, however, many employers still cut corners…

Honda Motor Company will pay a record automobile safety fine of $70 million, based on its failure to report at least 1,729 injuries and deaths that were linked to defects in its vehicles going back as much as eleven years. The fine comes in the form of two $35 million fines, since $35 million is the statutory…

The information was delayed by several days, the Texas Department of Public Safety on Monday announced that two children had died and several others were injured in a number of bad-weather-related accidents in and around Odessa, Texas in the last week. One accident occurred on Interstate 20 near mile marker 106, at around 4:30…

Caramel Apple Listeria Update: Now 31 Illnesses, Including 4 in Texas As we previously reported, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration are continuing an investigation into a Listeria outbreak that has been tied to pre-packaged, commercially-produced caramel apples. Thus far, the CDC has linked the apples to 31…