Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 31st, 2008
I watch movies in the background while I work on the couch.
Great movies can be watched hundreds of times American Beauty, Starman, High Fidelity, Almost Famous, Wonderboys, The World According to Garp, The Departed as a comforting narcotic, but only as background.
Bull Durham was on the other day ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Schools in Jakarta are unaware of their legal obligation to ensure their students have access to hygienic foods and beverages, a study has found.
The study, titled “legal study on the consumer protection for access to school snacks in elementary and junior high schools in Jakarta” was conducted in 2007 by ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
SIMSBURY, Conn. — Fecal matter from one cow at a Simsbury dairy farm caused five people to get sick with E. coli, according to the state Department of Agriculture.
Department representatives said fecal matter from one cow contained E. coli bacteria and somehow made its way into the raw milk sold ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Food industry leaders set to appear Thursday before a House committee say they will testify about what they view as mistakes in the federal response to the continuing salmonella outbreak as well as fundamental failures in the nations food safety system.
At the same time, however, several food safety experts say, ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Experts and industry leaders speaking at congressional hearings this week on the nationwide Salmonella outbreak said federal agencies should take cues from state programs if they want to improve the traceability of fresh produce and the success of foodborne disease outbreak investigations.
At a House subcommittee hearing yesterday, a Minnesota expert ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A Vineland, Onatrio, Chinese restaurant has been closed following a suspected food contamination outbreak that made at least 19 people ill.
China Express was closed last Friday by Niagara public health officials after a number of health violations were found at the takeout restaurant at 4630 Victoria Ave., near South Service ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Huntsville, TX — A Texas prison unit in Huntsville is on medical quarantine because of a widespread virus. Hundreds of prisoners and several staff members at the Wynne Unit have been diagnosed with Norovirus.
“Some 440 offenders and 28 staff members have been affected by a confirmed Norovirus,” said TDCJ spokesperson ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Tigard, Oregon — Washington County health officials said an outbreak of norovirus was responsible for dozens of customers and employees getting sick at a local P.F. Chang’s restaurant.
The health department started getting calls July 24 from people who dined at the P.F. Chang’s Chinese Bistro in Bridgeport Village.
The P.F. Chang’s ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The first lawsuit stemming from the Salmonella outbreak that has sickened 1319 people, hospitalized 255 and caused the death of 2 in 43 states, the District of Columbia and Canada was filed today in the District Court of Montezuma County, Colorado. The complaint was filed on behalf of Delores, Colorado ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
WASHINGTON — The government bungled the salmonella outbreak probe so badly, a House committee chairman said today, that federal investigators reminded him of Keystone Kops. A colleague hoped the maligned tomato can get its good name back.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee conducted its own investigation of the Food and ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Ottawa — In keeping with the Governments commitment to food safety, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is taking precautionary actions to prevent the implicated source of the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak in the United States (U.S.) from entering Canada. Specifically, shipments of jalapeño and Serrano peppers from Mexico are being ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
President Bush on Thursday said combat tours in Iraq are being reduced from 15 months to 12 months beginning Friday.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic appeared in a war crimes court for the first time Thursday and claimed irregularities in his arrest.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Dallas — Health officials believe the death of a 6-year-old North Texas girl could be linked to cryptosporidium. The parasite is found in human and animal fecese.
The girl died Tuesday after being hospitalized Monday. Her family says she tested positive for crypto after swimming in the Greenwood Hills Community Pool. ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The Pedersen family is suing Soni Copeland and The Herb Depot and Organic Market in Monett. The family says their son got E.coli from some raw milk bought at that market.
KOLR/KSFX sat down with Angela Pedersen to hear what she had to say about the lawsuit. Angela didn’t want us ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Its always the kids.
As a father with four daughters and a fifth on the way, I relate to the lets not make kids sick aspect of raw milk.
Proponents of raw milk say that is just so much statistical shit, and that hardly anyone gets sick from raw milk.
Except it is ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Washington — The outbreak of salmonella poisoning that sickened more than 1,300 people across the country and cost American tomato growers more than $300 million has been traced to irrigation water and peppers grown on a farm in Mexico, federal officials said Wednesday. But they refused to completely clear tomatoes ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A strain of the salmonella bacteria that sickened more than 1,300 people has been found in a serrano pepper and a sample of irrigation water at a farm in Mexico, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.?? They called the discovery a “breakthrough” but cautioned that tomatoes may still be a culprit ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The Afghan government condemned a bombing near a Pakistani consulate in western Afghanistan, saying such criminal acts “will strengthen the resolve of both the countries to fight terrorism.”
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Gedun Gyatso, a 27-year-old Tibetan Buddhist monk, is so devoted to the Dalai Lama that when he was in prison he placed a picture of him next to his pillow in open defiance of his jailers. The gesture earned Gyatso another month of incarceration on top of the three years ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Much experimental evidence points to poor hand hygiene as a likely major contributor to the occurrence of foodborne illnesses. Microorganisms are easily transferred from hands to other surfaces or vice versa, by cross contamination. Cross contamination is therefore an important contamination source of foodborne illness bacteria. In this review, we ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The objective was to determine college students food safety awareness, including concerns, food practices, and openness to change. Participants were a convenience sample of thirty health and non-health majors who were upperclassmen with an average age of 21, primarily white non-Hispanic females.
Using focused discussion groups, students food safety knowledge and ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The chairs of the Gordon Research Conference on Mycotoxins and Phycotoxins are preparing the program for the 2009 conference. The conference will be convened at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, New Hampshire, June 21-26, 2009. The new location is not far from that of the 2007 GRC (Colby College, Waterville, ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Arlington, VA — A federal decision to permit the State of Michigan to spray the state’s apple orchards with gentamicin risks undermining the value of this important antibiotic to treat blood infections in newborns and other serious human infections, according to the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).
The Environmental Protection ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
YAKIMA — The Yakima Health District is now posting results of restaurant inspections on its Web site.
Jared Keefer, an environmental health specialist with the district, told the board Wednesday at its monthly meeting that the information is part of a larger plan to make health information more readily available to ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
MESA, Ariz. — A pool at a Mesa junior high school had traces of the cryptosporidium parasite. Federal health officials say the crypto parasite causes diarrhea.
City officials say a final report that came out Wednesday confirmed what a preliminary report had indicated — the presence of the parasite in the ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic appeared in court Thursday for the first time to face charges that include genocide and war crimes. Karadzic, 63, has been indicted on 11 counts.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Iran has already responded to an international offer of incentives for suspending its nuclear enrichment activity, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told CNN on Wednesday.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
A government-controlled firm is forging ahead with plans to resume expansion of Brazil’s nuclear power program.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Chinese officials have announced an emergency plan to deal with Beijing’s persistent pollution problem as athletes flock toward the country for the start of next week’s Olympic Games.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Members of Turkey’s ruling party have expressed relief after the country’s constitutional court narrowly rejected calls for the party and its leaders, including Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul, to be banned from politics.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will make his first court appearance Thursday, more than 13 years after he was first indicted for war crimes, genocide, and crimes against humanity.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The wife of deposed Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was found guilty Thursday of evading millions of dollars in taxes and was sentenced to three years in prison, state media reported.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The Chinese government blasted U.S. legislators Thursday for calling on the communist nation to end human rights abuses.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
The Ecuadorian government has told the Bush administration it will not renew a 10-year agreement letting U.S. troops conduct anti-drug operations from the Latin American country, according to U.S. military officials.
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Let the games begin. May they prove fruitful for all concerned.
Youve read Tom Karsts report of Tony DiMares opening statement at the House hearings this afternoon. Besides this document, Ive briefly glanced at the ones by Dr. Acheson of the FDA and Dr. Osterholm of the University of Minnesota. Nothing ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
“We’re advising people to purchase produce from known safe sources,” said Brigid Richards, a Saginaw County health department, senior environmental health specialist. Her office is at 1600 N. Michigan, Saginaw.
“The availability of that kind of information is probably going to improve,” predicts Richards. “It will be driven by consumers. If ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
State and local health officials have identified clostridium perfringens on samples of roast beef sent to state laboratories for testing the same roast beef that sickened at least 40 people at a wedding reception July 19 in Rothschild.
It was unclear exactly how many people might have been sickened, but ...
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Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
The food fairgoers eat at this week’s 140th Wisconsin Valley Fair is likely to be safe, as vendors follow preparation and storage recommendations to avoid foodborne illnesses.
Marathon County sanitarians on Tuesday inspected and licensed many of the nearly 40 food vendors and planned to finish their rounds Wednesday. Doing so ...
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