Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 29th, 2008
http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/02/29/food-standards-agency-blames-wag-underfunding-for-delaying-report-91466-20538901/
A lack of money meant problems with the way Bridgend council conducted food hygiene inspections were not made public until after the 2005 E.coli outbreak began.
The public inquiry heard the Food Standards Agency Wales the body charged with inspecting the inspectors found deficiencies in the authoritys environmental health ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/gut-pains-courtesy-of-macdonald/2008/02/29/1204226990390.html
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/02/articles/food-safety-communication/restaurant-inspection-results-in-australia-not-happening/index.html
If you want to know why the public is so disillusioned with the State Government, look no further than Ian Macdonald.
Moore writes that as well as being responsible for primary industry, farms, power stations, mines and the development of the state, Macdonald is supposed to ensure the safety of food ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
An explosion at the funeral Friday for a district police officer killed earlier in the day in northwest Pakistan has left several people dead, sources say.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
The Turkish military has completely withdrawn from northern Iraq a week after launching an offensive there, the Iraqi foreign minister told CNN on Friday.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Japanese authorities on Friday released an American Marine accused of raping a teenager in Okinawa after the girl dropped the allegations, the U.S. military said.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
The cousin of Saddam Hussein, known by the nickname “Chemical Ali” for his role in a chemical weapons attack on Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s, will be executed, Iraqi officials said Friday.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Prince Harry is to be pulled out of Afghanistan immediately amid fears for his safety after news of his deployment was made public, the British defense ministry said Friday.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
A bomb has exploded at a political party office in northern Spain early Friday, causing damage but no injuries — just 10 days ahead of national elections.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
The Iraqi presidency approves the execution of Ali Hassan al-Majeed who earned the nickname “Chemical Ali” for his role in a chemical weapons attack on on Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Two of the four white students who were seen in a video allegedly mocking black housekeepers and serving them stew seemingly laced with urine have have apologized for their part in the stunt.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Kenya’s new power-sharing deal is a “critical step toward the legitimate government of the country,” U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer has said, pledging the United States would keep the parties “on the right track.”
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
The U.S. Navy has moved the guided-missile destroyer USS Cole and other ships to the eastern Mediterranean Sea off Lebanon, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
The Israeli military said it pounded Hamas and militant targets in Gaza overnight and into Thursday morning in an attempt to end a barrage of rockets coming from the Palestinian territory.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
Two of the four white college students who were seen in a video mocking black housekeepers and serving them stew purportedly containing urine have apologized, their lawyer said Thursday.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Kenya’s rival politicians sign a peace deal to end the violent post-election crisis in which hundreds died. President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga agreed to form a coalition government after weeks of wrangling, mediator Kofi Annan said.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The UK’s Prince Harry is in Afghanistan and has seen combat, the UK Ministry of Defence confirmed Wednesday.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The UK’s Prince Harry is in Afghanistan and has seen combat, the UK Ministry of Defence confirmed Wednesday.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Serbia will not give up its claim on breakaway province Kosovo or its bid to become a member of the European Union, Serbian President Boris Tadic said in an interview published Thursday.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/walkers02_08.html
Walker’s Food Products Company of North Kansas City, Missouri, is recalling its 16oz., 5-lb. and 10-lb. containers of Four Bean Salad because of potential contamination with Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium which can cause life-threatening illness or death.
Consumers are warned not to use the product, even if it does not ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://www.wjactv.com/news/15431526/detail.html
Altoona — Cities across Pennsylvania, like Altoona, Johnstown and Pittsburgh, do their own food and safety checks for local establishments. However, the state is pushing for all municipalities to use one online system, so diners can make informed choices about the restaurants where they are eating.
While inspectors from the Pennsylvania ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/02/hearing-on-food-safety/
A hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committees Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on Tuesday reviewed a recent scandal over beef safety, which led to a massive recall of 143 million pounds of meat.
The hearing raised serious questions about both the ability of the United States Department of ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022703193.html
Not since Upton Sinclair’s 1906 book “The Jungle” has the American meat market, according to this editorial, been this shaken. On Jan. 30, the Humane Society of the United States released undercover video showing employees at a Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. plant abusing and forcing into the slaughterhouse animals that could ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/8/23
Background
Hepatitis A (HA) is a low-incidence, non-endemic disease in Canada and the United States (US). However, a large difference in HA incidence between Canada and HA-endemic countries has made travel an important contributor to hepatitis A prevalence in Canada. There is also a (smaller) incidence differential between Canada and the ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gjgIDJ5Z2xZSLp6TUi-kRcCFXmPgD8V3IJMO0
WASHINGTON U.S. Agriculture Secretary Edward T. Schafer was cited as telling a Senate hearing Thursday that calls from Democratic senators for a complete ban on so-called downer cattle those unable to walk from entering the food supply were excessive, but did announce new steps to ensure the ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://www.scientistlive.com/food/?/Ingredients/2008/02/28/19895/Pathogen_detection_and_control_in_fresh_broccoli_sprouts/
Background
The recent increased interest in consuming green vegetable sprouts has been tempered by the fact that fresh sprouts can in some cases be vehicles for food-borne illnesses. They must be grown according to proper conditions of sanitation and handled as a food product rather than as an agricultural commodity. When ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://www.richmondregister.com/localnews/local_story_059101341.html
Pamela Short of Richmond was cited as suing the makers of Peter Pan peanut butter alleging she became sick after eating peanut butter which was recalled nationally last year.
In her suit, Short said she consumed the tainted food on Feb. 15, 2007, the day after the company nationally released a ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/02/articles/salmonella/tomkat-buys-fish-tank-for-jlos-twins-can-you-say-salmonella/index.html
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ntertainmentWise is reporting that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes wanted to create a splash for Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthonys new twins so they bought a fish tank.
http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=40839
A source tell the Daily Star, Tom and Katie wanted to get them something different and special so they thought a giant fish ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning people with allergies to wheat or soy not to consume certain meat products described below. These products contain wheat or soy which is not declared on the label.
All sizes and codes of the following products are affected by this alert:
Brand
Product
UPC
Allergen
Bahay-Kubo
Chicken Embutido Chicken ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
AMI Says Situation Reflects Plant-Specific Failures and Does Not Reflect Industry-Wide Problems; Record-Setting Class II Recall of Safe Meat Defies Common Sense
Washington, DC, February 28, 2008 An undercover video depicting animal abuse in a California meat plant reflects multiple problems in plant practices, in inspection oversight at the ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?bf6e34e4-2d14-42e2-8072-e112f3222e19
The Humane Society of the United States today filed suit against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to close a dangerous loophole in the agencys regulations that contributed to the recent recall of more than 143 million pounds of beef — much of which was fed to schoolchildren in at ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://media-newswire.com/release_1061661.html
The Secretary for Food and Health, Dr York Chow, today (February 26) met with the visiting Vice-Minister of Health and Head of the Beijing Organising Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) Healthcare Leading Group, Dr Chen Xiaohong, Deputy Director of the Games Services of BOCOG, Dr Dai ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/edition/v13n09/080228_4.asp
To the Editor: In a recent article, De Schrijver et al. described an outbreak of Verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli, syn. Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), linked to the consumption of ice cream produced at a farm in the province of Antwerp, Belgium [1]. Interestingly, the outbreak was identified through the time-clustering ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Claims that food animals, such as pigs, are increasingly the source of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria in humans are greatly exaggerated, according to information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In a recent letter to House Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and panel members Leonard Boswell, ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://www.baldwincountynow.com/articles/2008/02/27/local_news/doc47c60132e633d646643262.txt
Daphne — The Baldwin County Health Department was cited as saying that a mens outreach session Saturday turned anemic during the Eastern Shore Baptist Churchs 10th Annual Beast Feast and Wild Game Supper, where al least eight people contracted E. coli.
Associate pastor, Rev. Ken Wilson, was cited as saying 15 ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://www.eurosurveillance.org/edition/v13n09/080228_3.asp
A family outbreak of gastroenteritis caused by Campylobacter coli occurred in May 2006 in Bielsko-Biala, in the south of Poland. Four members of a family had non-bloody diarrhea and abdominal cramps. C. coli were isolated in three of the four patients.
PFGE and PCR-RFLP-flaA patterns confirmed the link between cases, ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://tas.greens.org.au/News/view_MR.php?ActionID=2831
The Tasmanian Greens today called on the Lennon government to develop new protocols to lessen the impact of Salmonella outbreaks on retail food outlets, which have often been devastated by negative publicity despite not being responsible in any way for an outbreak.
Greens Shadow Deputy Leader Nick McKim MP, who attended ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/28/2175540.htm
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/02/articles/salmonella/passing-the-buck-tasmanian-style/
The owner of the Venus Cafe in Hobart was cited as saying business is down 60 per cent after the salmonella outbreak and says she will ask the State Government for some formal recognition of the impact on her business of the recent salmonella outbreak.
Venus Cafe at Bellerive used eggs ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
A missile strike in a remote part of Pakistan killed at least eight suspected militants and wounded three others Thursday, Pakistan’s state media reported.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Kenya’s rival politicians sign a peace deal to end the violent post-election crisis in which hundreds died. President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga agreed to form a coalition government after weeks of wrangling, mediator Kofi Annan said.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
The Israeli military said it pounded Hamas and militant targets in Gaza overnight and into Thursday morning in an attempt to end a barrage of rockets coming from the Palestinian territory.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Kenya’s rival politicians have agreed to form a coalition government after weeks of wrangling on how to end the country’s deadly postelection crisis, mediator Kofi Annan says.
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates encouraged Turkey not to drag out its military operation against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq any longer than was necessary.
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