Garden Fresh Foods is recalling approximately 19,054 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken and ham products due to possible contamination with Listeria. The USDA says the foods were distributed nationwide. The items were sold under various brand names listed below.
Products regulated by FSIS bear the establishment number “EST. 17256” or “Est. P-17256” inside the USDA mark of inspection and include the following:
UPC Pack/Size Product Product Code Code Date
0 85239 24103 5 12 oz. Market Pantry All White Meat Chicken Salad 24103 9/24/2013 – 10/14/2013
0 85239 00221 6 6 oz Archer Farms Rotisserie Chicken Salad 002216 09/28/2013 – 10/9/2013
0 85239 99017 9 11 oz Archer Farms Bacon Parmesan Dip 99017 10/12/2013 – 11/8/2013
0 85239 10125 4 14 oz D’Amico and Sons Chicken Salad with Rosemary 1010254 09/24/2013 – 10/10/2013
0 85239 10121 6 14 oz D’Amico and Sons Chicken & Dried Cherry Pasta 101216 10/02/2013 – 10/10/2013
0 85239 10122 3 6 oz D’Amico and Sons Chicken & Dried Cherry Pasta 101223 10/02/2013 – 10/10/2013
0 85239 10024 0 14 oz D’Amico and Sons Ranch Pasta Salad with Chicken, Spinach & Bacon 100240 9/24/2013
0 85239 10023 3 6 oz D’Amico and Sons Ranch Pasta Salad with Chicken, Spinach & Bacon 100233 9/24/2013
7 33147 10496 5 12 oz Finest Traditions Ham Salad Spread 388648 09/28/13 – 10/18/2013
0 11596 06164 1 12 oz Garden Fresh Ham Salad with Sweet Relish 6163 10/03/2013 -10/12-2013
0 41497 05334 6 8 oz Weis Ham Salad 05334 09/27/2013 – 10/02/2013
The problem was discovered through microbiological testing at the facility by FDA. FDA, FSIS and the company have not received reports of illnesses due to consumption of these products. Anyone concerned about an illness should contact a healthcare provider.
FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks to verify recalling firms notify their customers of the recall and that steps are taken to make certain that the product is no longer available to consumers. When available, the retail distribution list(s) will be posted on the FSIS website at: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/current-recalls-and-alerts.
Consumers with questions regarding the recall should contact the company at (800) 645-3367. Media with questions about the recall should contact the company’s Vice President of Sales, Steve Mueller at (414) 645-1000.
Consumers with food safety questions can "Ask Karen," the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours a day at AskKaren.gov or via smartphone at m.askkaren.gov. “Ask Karen” live chat services are available Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET. The toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) is available in English and Spanish and can be reached from l0 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are available 24 hours a day. The online Electronic Consumer Complaint Monitoring System can be accessed 24 hours a day at: https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/report-a-problem-with-food.
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is scheduled to present the 2013 Kansas Health Champion Awards during the second annual Kansas Obesity Summit on Monday,
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Sept. 30
The Governor will recognize the individual and organization champions, as well as the honorable mention recipients, at the noontime awards ceremony.
The Health Champion Award was developed by the Governor’s Council on Fitness to recognize and promote exemplary contributions to fitness in Kansas. Eligible nominees include volunteers, schools, communities, employers, media organizations and policy makers who go above and beyond what is expected through normal job or organizational responsibilities related to modeling, encouraging and promoting fitness.
The second annual Kansas Obesity Summit is scheduled for Sept. 30 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Topeka Ramada, 420 SE 6th Ave. The summit convenes decision-makers in their work to identify and promote best and most promising strategies to address rising rates and the health and economic impact of obesity in Kansas.
The summit’s keynote speaker is Dr. Doug Gruenbacher from Quinter, Kan. In addition to his medical practice, Dr. Gruenbacher founded Castle Rock Wellness Center to provide a gym and exercise classes for his small community. He is an avid runner and a 2012 Summer Olympic torch bearer who looks for opportunities to motivate his community to improve their health.
(AP) — Former presidential candidate Rick Santorum who will be in Hays in just over a month, says Republicans need to do a better job of caring, relating and
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communicating if they hope to win national elections.
Santorum spoke over the weekend to hundreds of people gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban St. Louis.
He said Republicans have been trying to win by proving to people that their policies are right with facts and figures. But he says Democrats have prevailed in national elections by telling people they understand, relate and care for them.
Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, ran unsuccessfully last year for the Republican nomination for president.
He’s now leading a conservative movie production company and traveling the country speaking. Santorum says he hasn’t ruled out another bid for president. He will speak at Fort Hays State University’s new lecture series. The Keith Sebelius Lecture Series opens on November 4, at the Beach Schmidt Performing Arts Center.
The opening event will actually be a debate between a pair of former presidential candidates on “The Proper Role of Government in a Free Society.” Santorum, Former Republican Senator from Pennsylvania and Former Governor of Vermont and past chairman of the Democrat National Committee, Howard Dean will offer a bi-partisan look at what can be expected from the next few years of the Obama administration. From the economy to healthcare, Santorum and Dean should provide a rousing debate on a wide variety of issues concerning Americans today. The University told Hays Post that tickets for the event are still available.
USD 489 BOARD OF EDUCATION
Work Session Monday, September 30, 2013 (watch the session live on Eagle channel 13) AGENDA
1. Consent Agenda Topics:
a. J. Authorization of Clayton-Holdings to make payment to Paul-
Wertenberger in the amount of $
2. Discussion Topics:
a. Purchasing Plan for Suburban Purchase
Russ Henningsen and Dean Katt will lead a discussion for purchasing suburban and preliminary plans for replacing motor pool vehicles.
b. Teacher Evaluation Contract Language
Shanna Dinkel and Dean Katt will present proposed changes to the contract language in regard to the teacher evaluation process.
c. DistrictEnrollmentUpdates
Dean Katt will share preliminary enrollment data with the Board
d. Nurse / Counselor Update
Dean Katt will share data on current staffing for USD 489 and staffing data from districts of similar size from around the state. 3. AgendaTopics:
a. Board Approval off the Special Education VI-B Grant Application
The Board must approve the Special Education VI-B Grant application to accept Federal Special Education funding for FY 2014. It is the same funding stream the district has accepted on behalf of the Special Education Cooperative for many years.b. Roosevelt Chiller
Terry Ault and Dean Katt will present information provided by the engineering firm PEC. This information will be made available to the Board upon receipt.
c. KASBPolicyUpdates–2ndReading
Sections F, G, I, J, K. This second reading will include the revised language for policy GANA, which establishes a limit on credit card transactions.
d. BBC – Standing Technology Committee – 2nd Reading
The Board will need to approve the second reading of the addition to Board Policy BBC ‘Standing Committees’ District Technology Committee.
e. Board Policy GACC – Recruitment and Hiring – 1st Reading
Bill Jeter will present the suggested language for this policy. After review by the Board, the revised policy will be brought to the October 7th meeting for first reading.
f. Review of Superintendent Search Firm Proposals
The Board will need to decide how to proceed with the search firm proposals. The Administration recommends the board invite three firms to present to the Board at a future meeting.
4. Other topics for discussion
5. ExecutiveSession
a. Formattersrelatingtonegotiations.
6. Adjournment
(AP) — Kansas education officials say they’re committed to the use of new science standards in public schools despite a federal lawsuit attempting to block the guidelines.
The State Board of Education and state Department of Education are defending multistate standards adopted by the board in June. They issued a joint statement noting that the standards were approved after nearly two years of work on them.
The lawsuit was filed last week by parents and a nonprofit group that had criticized the standards over how they treat evolution. The guidelines reflect the mainstream scientific view that evolution is well-established science.
The plaintiffs contend the standards will have schools indoctrinating students with an atheistic philosophy, in violation of their religious freedoms.
But the board and department said the standards provide strong science education.
(AP) — Several flood-plagued Kansas counties are hoping temporary repairs to roads and bridges can withstand autumn rains until federal funds are available for more permanent fixes.
Gov. Sam Brownback last week requested a federal disaster declaration for 47 counties because of storm damage and flooding that hit much of Kansas between July 22 and Aug. 16. The governor said some of those counties received as much as five times their normal amount of rainfall.
Harvey County emergency management director Lon Buller said the flooding was so widespread at one point that you couldn’t drive across his county without going through some water.
Buller says some townships have as little as $10,000 in their budgets to make repairs but more than $200,000 worth of damage.
(AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says Cheyenne Bottoms, a central Kansas site that includes internationally recognized wetlands, aren’t fully functioning
Cheyenne Bottoms
and could be threatened by oil drilling.
Heather Whitlaw, field supervisor for the Fish and Wildlife Service in Manhattan, says her agency opposes a recent request by a Kansas company to drill for oil in Cheyenne Bottoms, a 41,000-acre land sink that’s also the largest interior marsh in the U.S. and where about 250,000 waterfowl stop during seasonal migrations.
The Army Corps of Engineers is expected to have a decision by the end of the year.
The Fish and Wildlife Service also has concerns about the impact of nearby oil production outside the Bottoms, which is on the state’s list of impaired waters because of siltation and oxygen depletion.
Down 0-2 after the first half, Fort Hays State University rallied to force double overtime and used a game-winner from Hailey Davey to knock off Newman, 3-2, on Sunday afternoon.
FHSU (4-5-1, 0-2-1 MIAA) had 24 shots in the game, over-powering the Jets (2-4), who had just six.
Davey’s third goal of the season came in double overtime at 107:04, and was assisted by Dani Harris, who had her third goal of the season earlier in the game. Ceynada Guzman had FHSU’s other score in the contest.
Nicole Barnaba started the game at goalie for the Tigers, allowing two goals. Kelsey Grey replaced Barnaba at half, notching two saves in the final 68 minutes.
The Jets scored first, when Mei-Mei Senthavy broke through the FHSU defense on NU’s first shot of the contest for a 1-0 lead. Maricela Ruvalcaba would assist on the goal.
Later in the first half, NU stretched its lead to two, as Blair Terry’s free kick rebounded back to Olivia Hull, who scored.
FHSU would pull within one during the 62nd minute, when a Newman foul inside the box gave FHSU a penalty kick. Harris nailed the PK for her third goal of the year.
Guzman’s shot with less than five minutes to go in regulation would erase the deficit completely. The redshirt sophomore would fire a shot from the top of the box at 85:45, tying the match and eventually forcing overtime.
In the second extra-period, Harris found Davey in front of the goal for the win.
The Tigers start a three-game road swing through the MIAA next weekend, starting with Washburn on Friday, Oct. 8 at 4 p.m.
(AP) — A top Senate Republican is suggesting to a court-appointed budget panel that there are other options available to prevent cuts in operations of the Kansas
Senator Jeff King
judicial system.
Senate Vice President Jeff King sent a letter dated Friday to members of a newly appointed budget council that will look at ways to increase funding and improve efficiencies within the state court system.
King says in the letter that not everything that has been said about the court budget is accurate.
King says there have been previous recommendations for efficiencies that haven’t been considered by legislators before any action is taken to close courthouses or layoff judicial staff.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Even in a league known for quick turnarounds and breathtaking free-falls, this seems preposterous.
Kansas City Chiefs kick returner Dexter McCluster (22) gets past New York Giants’ Damontre Moore (98) during the second half of an NFL football game at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013. McCluster scored a touchdown on the play. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)
The Kansas City Chiefs , one season removed from a 2-14 debacle that cost the coach and general manager their jobs, are 4-0 after pounding the New York Giants 31-7 on Sunday. Only one other team, Detroit in 1980, has done it.
The Giants, the proud Super Bowl champions of 2007 and 2011 season, are 0-4 for the first time since 1987, a mass of injury and disarray.
Alex Smith threw three touchdown passes, Dexter McCluster returned a punt 89 yards for another score and the Chiefs went to 4-0 for the first time since the 2003 team started 9-0.
The injury-ravaged Giants trailed only 17-7 after three quarters. They managed only one TD, on a 69-yard catch-and-run from Eli Manning to Victor Cruz.
Smith, obtained in the offseason from San Francisco, hit touchdown passes of 4, 2 and 35 yards. He was 24 for 41 for 288 yards. He was intercepted twice and the Chiefs also lost a fumble, their first turnovers in what may be turning into a magical season for a franchise which hasn’t won a playoff game in two decades.
Manning, operating behind a banged-up offensive line, was 18 for 37 for 217 yards and the one TD. He was sacked three times and intercepted once, but harried and hurried much of the bright, sunny afternoon.
Late in the first quarter, Smith hit Sean McGrath , Jamaal Charles and Dwayne Bowe for gains of 12, 17 and 14 yards on successive plays. McGrath, the heavily bearded tight end and Seattle Seahawks castoff, got free in the end zone to catch Smith’s 5-yard TD pass to cap the 11-play, 98-yard drive.
The drive took 5 minutes, 38 seconds. To answer, Manning needed only 54 seconds.
On second down from the Giants 31, Cruz went streaking down the right sideline – turf normally patrolled by injured cornerback Brandon Flowers – caught Manning’s pass in stride and raced into the end zone. Trailing far behind was Dunta Robinson , a backup cornerback who had moved over to the left side.
The Chiefs led only 10-7 when McCluster fielded the ball and set sail on the first TD punt return the Chiefs have had since Sept. 13, 2010, when McCluster took one back a team-record 94 yards against San Diego during a rain storm. He juked one tackler, put a dizzying 360-degree spin move on another and then broke clear up the middle.
Ryan Succop , who kicked a 51-yard field goal in the second quarter, connected on a 53-yarder a few minutes later.
In the fourth quarter, Smith fired a 2-yard TD pass to Charles and a 35-yarder to Bowe, who twisted free of a couple of tacklers.
A woman was injured in a Sunday morning rollover accident.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol Twenty-five year old Aubrey J. Gunter of Frankfort was driving a 2013 Chevy HHR west bound on K9, nine miles east of Beloit on Sunday morning and lost control of the vehicle.
The vehicle rolled and came to rest in the south ditch. She was transported to the Mitchell County Hospital. She was wearing a seat belt.
The FHSU University Activities Board is hosting a “super” speaker. Bill Rosemann, an editor for Marvel Comics, will speak Wednesday October 2nd at 7pm at the Beach/Schmidt Performing Arts Center.
Rosemann has worked in the comic industry for over 20 years and has worked alongside the comic industry’s top creators while writing and editing titles starring famous characters such as Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Batman, Superman and the Avengers. Some of his work is also being adapted as a motion picture, including “Thor: The Dark World” and “Captain America: Winter Soldier.”
Rosemann will give his audience a glimpse at life behind the scenes of an iconic brand/company, as well as talk about what we can learn from superheroes to apply towards our every day lives.
The event is free for all FHSU students with a tiger card, general admission tickets at $5.
