Archive for June, 2008
Monday, June 30th, 2008
A panel of the country’s leading experts gathered Monday at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans to discuss refrigerator safety and consumers’ habits when it comes to storing and eating foods and cooling and cleaning their refrigerators.
Sandria Godwin, a food scientist with Tennessee State University and part ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
WASHINGTON, June 30, 2008 — Nebraska Beef, Ltd., an Omaha, Neb., establishment is recalling approximately 531,707 pounds of ground beef components that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service announced today.
The following products subject to recall include:
*Combo bins of “Coleman ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) today filed a lawsuit against the State of Ohio challenging its new regulations regarding the labeling of dairy products from cows that have not been treated with artificial growth hormones. In the lawsuit, IDFA says the Ohio rule interferes with the ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
ITHACA, N.Y. — Milk goes green: Cows that receive recombinant Bovine Somatotropin (rbST) make more milk, all the while easing natural resource pressure and substantially reducing environmental impact, according to a Cornell University study to be published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (June 30, 2008.)
Producing milk ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) was today presented with the prestigious WHO Food Safety Award from the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva in recognition of its international contribution in promoting food safety globally. This is only the second occasion that the WHO has presented this award to ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Natick, Mass. — Jeanette Kennedy is a food technologist at the US Army Natick Soldier Systems Center (NSSC) west of Boston, Kennedy faces creative challenges unlike those before any other chef because she designs MRE, Meal Ready to Eat designed to fuel soldiers lugging 100-pound packs all day.
The story ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The Harvey County Health Department and the Kansas Department of Health and Environment are continuing to investigate the Salmonella outbreak in south-central Kansas. As of Monday, there have been 11 cases.
During the course of the investigation, the Acapulco Restaurant in Newton was identified as the probable source of the illness. ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Multistate Outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections Michigan and Ohio
State departments of health and agriculture in Michigan and Ohio, collaborating local health jurisdictions, CDC, and the United States Department of Agricultures Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) are investigating a multi-state outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections. Based on ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Local public health officials are now investigating what appears to be an outbreak of E.coli in Southwest Georgia.
Friends and family members of 15 year Laura Hill Bannister say the 10th grader first showed signs of E.coli last week, and was later transferred to an Atlanta hospital as her symptoms worsened.
Sandra ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Ever wonder what to do in an ice storm. A tornado? How about a flood? Living in the Midwest, we get everything.
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/06/articles/food-safety-communication/tornado-hits-manhattan-kansas/
http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2007/12/articles/food-safety-communication/ice-storm-hits-manhattan-keeping-food-safe/
Now imagine its not just you and your family. Its a restaurant, a store, a really big store.
The Conference for Food Protection (CFP) has released practical guidance for ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
CDC is collaborating with public health officials in many states, the Indian Health Service, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to investigate an ongoing multi-state outbreak of human Salmonella serotype Saintpaul infections. An initial epidemiologic investigation comparing foods eaten by ill and well persons identified consumption of raw ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Jerry Snyder has spent two years asking milk experts what standards it takes to produce the highest-quality fluid milk around. His 50-cow, grass-based herd is showing whats possible when cow health and meticulous care come together.
The story says that Sunnycove Farm (www.sunnycovefarm.com ) is on the outskirts of the ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Restaurant inspection scores are obtained daily from the Gwinnett County Health Department Web site, www.gwinnetthealth .com. Some entries are edited for length.
For the complete list of restaurant inspection scores, please visit http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2008/06/30/restaurant_inspections_gwinnett.html
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Dr. Jill Harman, a board-certified emergency medicine physician at Holy Family Memorial’s Emergency Department, writes:
In the emergency department, I have seen people get sick after visiting petting zoos. One grandmother had a very uncomfortable few days of stomach cramping and diarrhea. She had reminded her grandchildren to wash their hands, ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Grand County Camp Chief Ouray re-opened Sunday after closing June 18th because of a Norovirus outbreak.
The camp welcomed 280 new campers for session 4.
Camp director Marty Ferguson told 9news 109 people, including children and staff got sick.
The cause of the virus is still unknown.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
SAN JOSÉ ITURBIDE, Mexico - Glenn Fry helps run Taylor Farms de Mexico’s new $14 million plant here. He picked the land where it sits and designed just about every facet of it, and he manages more than 800 workers who plant, harvest and package produce including lettuce, onions ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Last July, Food and Drug Administration officials issued a rare warning to U.S. consumers: Botulism toxin was suspected in hot dog chili sauce made by Castleberry’s Food.
The botulism outbreak, which would eventually sicken eight and lead to a recall of tens of millions of cans of food, was the first ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
I. Research Objectives
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Office of Regulatory
Affairs (ORA), Division of Federal-State Relations (DFSR) in collaboration with the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), is announcing the availability of an Agreement of Limited Competition. Only States with current FDA ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
At least 17 Massachusetts residents have been sickened by salmonella from raw tomatoes - part of a nationwide outbreak that has struck more than 750 people since April. Salmonella, which comes from animal waste and causes flu-like symptoms, is particularly dangerous for people whose immune systems have already been weakened ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The BC Centre for Disease Control is advising British Columbians to fully cook shellfish before eating because summer weather increases the risk of illnesses associated with raw or undercooked shellfish consumption.
“[It] can cause severe diarrhea and vomiting that can last up to a week,” Dr. Eleni Galanis, an epidemiologist with ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Coroner Jane Culver was cited as finding that a Sydney restaurant served asparagus sauce contaminated with bacteria in January last year, resulting in a man’s death, because of slack procedures in its handling of the sauce
William Hodgkins, 81, died after dining at Tables restaurant in Pymble on January 12 last ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
The newest food safety infosheet, a graphical one-page food safety-related story, is now available at foodsafetyinfosheets.ksu.edu.
Infosheet highlights:
- Vomit and poop can spread bacteria,viruses and parasites to swimmers.
- Two recent recreational water outbreaks linked to poop in the water parks.
- Utah: Cryptosporidium in public pools.
- New York: Norovirus at Great Escape ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim came out of hiding Monday, and says he has damaging evidence that proves senior members of the government faked evidence for sodomy charges against him.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Pakistani paramilitary troops have destroyed several Taliban outposts and uncovered a jail where they kept kidnap victims, the interior ministry says.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Divers spent Monday searching for 36 members of an anti-insurgency unit who went missing after Maoist rebels fired on and sank their boat in eastern India, state media said.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Iran has sentenced to death a man found guilty of spying for Israel, state media reported Monday.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe arrived at an African Union summit in Egypt on Monday, a day after he won a sixth term in a widely discredited runoff election.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
Spain claimed their first major football title in 44 years after beating Germany 1-0 in Sunday’s European Championship final in Vienna.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
President Robert Mugabe was sworn in Sunday after the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission declared he overwhelmingly won the country’s disputed runoff election.
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
An explosion in southern Afghanistan killed a NATO soldier on Saturday.
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Food safety advocates say one way to get a glimpse into what is getting through the food safety inspection system is to see what is getting caught.
The Food and Drug Administration’s Operational and Administrative System for Import Support, a database of information on refused import shipments, highlights some of the ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
LAREDO — Day after day, Mexican trucks, according to this story, line up as far as the eye can see for entry to the U.S. at the World Trade Bridge, carrying everything from raw tomatoes, broccoli and fresh basil to frozen seafood. They also bring in salmonella, listeria, restricted pesticides ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
A Wood River Mexican restaurant closed over salmonella concerns has reopened.
The owner says they got the go ahead from the county health department and reopened Los Tres Amigos Sunday morning at 11.
He says they’re no longer buying tomatoes from a St. Louis area grocery store; instead they are buying them ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
We will file the first E. coli lawsuit in the Ohio and Michigan E. coli outbreak Monday in the Court of Common Pleas in Franklin County, Ohio against Kroger and its as yet unidentified meat supplier (John Doe). The complaint was filed on behalf of a New Albany resident who ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
The Bush administration has launched a “significant escalation” of covert operations in Iran, sending U.S. commandos to spy on the country’s nuclear facilities and undermine the Islamic republic’s government, journalist Seymour Hersh said Sunday.
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
More than 600 food processing plants in Tanzania do not have the system to ensure production of goods according to specified quality and safety standards. The Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority (TFDA) Director General, Mrs Margaret Ndomondo Sigonda, said here yesterday that more than two thirds (74 per cent) of ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
MICROCOSM
E. Coli and the New Science of Life.
By Carl Zimmer.
243 pp. Pantheon Books. $25.95.
From Victorian England to contemporary America, creationists have often denied that we are related to other primates. But the hard truth of our genealogy does even greater damage to human pride. We are cousins of every living ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Barack Obama may be the change candidate but his food safety rhetoric falls into a tired and unsubstantiated pattern.
Obama wrote on Friday in Cow Calf Weekly (great reading for the beach),
http://enews.penton.com/enews/beef/cowcalfweekly_/current#a080625
America continues to have the safest, most abundant and cheapest food supply in the world.
Beef producers are a ...
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
A U.S. ship arrived at a North Korean port carrying 38,000 tons of food to be distributed to the millions of people living in hunger, U.N. sources said Sunday.
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
An explosion in southern Afghanistan killed a NATO soldier on Saturday.
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Sunday, June 29th, 2008
A truck bomb killed seven people, including six police officers, in a town north of Baghdad Sunday, police said.
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