CANADA: Five things: Food recalls - (Globe and Mail)
August 23, 2008 – 11:16 pm1 Terrible Tins
Unfortunately for arctic explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew, there were no food recalls back in the 1840s. Studies of the frozen corpses of some of the 128-members of the ill-fated Franklin expedition suggested that lead poisoning contributed to their demise. Food canning was a new technology at that time, and the lead likely came from the solder used in the tins of soup, vegetables and meat carried on the expedition’s ships.
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This month’s scare is certainly not the first time the listeria bacterium has been blamed for tainting food and killing innocent victims. In 1981, 41 cases of listeriosis were reported in Nova Scotia, where it caused miscarriages, stillbirths and infant deaths. The culprit was identified as cabbage grown in contaminated sheep manure. In 1985, Mexican cheese was recalled after listeria killed 69 people across the U.S. And in 1998 the bacteria was found in […]
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