One person was killed and three were wounded Wednesday in Israeli airstrike targeting a metal shop in Rafah, according to Palestinian security and medical sources.

Five people were killed and nine were injured, two seriously, early Thursday when two boats collided in Sydney Harbor, police said.

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A study was conducted to evaluate the effect of storing Escherichia coli O157:H7 in fruit or vegetable juices with or without pulp and/or calcium lactate, on the bacterial resistance to a simulated gastric fluid (SGF, pH 1.5). Apple, carrot, orange, and tomato juices containing pulp or freed from pulp by filtration were used in this [...]

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Seventy-eight isolates of Salmonella spp. isolated from beef sampled from the official city slaughterhouse and from retailers in Dakar, Senegal were analyzed using serotyping, antimicrobial testing and macrorestriction profiling by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE).
These analyses were done to identify clonal relationships and potential transmission routes in beef channel. XbaI macrorestriction allowed defining 17 genotypes among [...]

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USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Russia has banned imports of pork from four U.S. processing plants, claiming to have detected an antibiotic in the meat.
Russia suspended imports of pork from Tyson Foods Inc.’s Storm Lake, Iowa, and Logansport, Ind., plants and Farmland Foods’ Crete, Neb., and Monmouth, Ill., plants. Farmland Foods is owned [...]

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Are raw-milk cheeses poison or gustatory pleasure? The debate resurfaced Monday at the Ontario Cheese Society’s annual meeting when U.S. microbiologist and raw-milk advocate Catherine Donnelly said pasteurized milk does not necessarily make safe cheese.
Donnelly, co-director of the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese at the University of Vermont, was cited as saying Health Canada’s cheese [...]

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During March 2006–April 2007, an outbreak of Salmonella enterica serotype Newport infections occurred predominantly among Hispanics in northeastern Illinois. Samples from 85 patients, one sample of Mexican-style aged cheese (cotija) from a local Hispanic grocery store (grocery store A), and milk from a bulk tank on a local dairy farm tested positive for S. Newport [...]

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An outbreak of legionella that killed three Christchurch people in the winter of 2005 has, according to this story, prompted a raft of recommendations from a coroner.
During an inquest held in Christchurch last year, Southland-Central Otago Coroner Trevor Savage heard evidence from health officials, scientists, building experts, local body officers and company executives.
Ross Hern, 56, [...]

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MANHATTAN–The U.S. has military personnel stationed around the world, and often those service members eat locally acquired food that may not have been processed the same way food is processed in the U.S. That’s why K-State researchers are working with the U.S. Department of Defense to better protect American troops from the possibility of intentional [...]

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Gary Paul Nabhan has, according to this story, spent most of the past four years compiling a list of endangered plants and animals that were once fairly commonplace in American kitchens but are now threatened, endangered or essentially extinct in the marketplace. He has set out to save them, which often involves urging people to [...]