Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
About 1 million people have been forced to flee because of fighting between rebel and government forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.N. refugee agency said Friday, adding it was investigating reports of camps being looted and torched.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
The United States has received $1.5 billion from Libya as payment for victims of terrorist attacks, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Congress on Friday.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Two Israeli television channels have dropped plans to air full-length versions of telephone interviews they conducted with the man who assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
A fatal listeria outbreak linked to its Toronto processing plant hit Maple Leaf Foods Inc. hard in the third quarter, but the company’s private polling suggests consumers are ready to start buying its processed meat again.
“Since September we’ve had continuous consumer reporting,” chief executive officer Michael McCain said in an ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
CARTHAGE — Recently discovered cases of E. coli in southeast Iowa and one in Hancock County have public health officials searching for a source.
On Thursday, Illinois Department of Public Health spokesperson Melanie Arnold said the Hancock County case was confirmed as E. coli.
She said health officials have determined that one ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Eight children in three Colorado mountain counties have tested positive for the same type of E. coli bacteria, with two of the children being hospitalized with complications.
State and local health officials are investigating possible sources of exposure, including deer and elk droppings, as well as common behaviors, activities, foods and ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Two confirmed cases of E. coli and three possible cases have been reported in Halton Region, four of them connected to Johnathan’s Family Restaurant in Burlington.
The links to the restaurant became apparent late yesterday afternoon after it was found eating there was a common factor in four cases, said Mary ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
TRELLEBORG, Sweden — A court in Trelleborg, Sweden, has ruled that a woman’s diarrhea was not a sufficient reason for her to break the posted speed limit while driving.
The district court rejected the 49-year-old woman’s argument that she was forced to drive 53 mph in a 43 mph zone because ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Amy and I are at the University of Wisconsin in Madison — and Im struck by how food safety things seem the same.
Amy got invited to speak at a French conference, and we didnt know if wed embark on the 10-hour drive this late in the pregnancy, but she said ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Suspected U.S. missiles from two unmanned drones killed 21 people Friday in northwest Pakistan, local and intelligence officials said.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Rebel forces in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have pulled back from positions outside the provincial capital so aid can reach thousands of Congolese displaced by fighting, a rebel spokesman told CNN Friday.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Consumers in Beijing’s malls and shops are shunning the milk and poultry sections — for good reasons.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Pirates attacked a French ship in the waters off Cameroon on Friday, taking 10 of the 15 crew members hostage, the French Foreign Ministry and the ship’s owner said.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
The U.S. monthly troop death toll in Iraq is down by almost 50 percent so far in October, a sign of growing security gains across the nation.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
HOUSTON — For the past 6 months, Cor Groenveld, Global Food Safety Manager and Sector Specialist of Lloyd’s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA), has worked along side representatives of Kraft, Danone, Nestle, Unilever, McDonald’s and General Mills in a collective steering group aimed to develop the new food safety Publicly Available ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Half of all food allergies are not food allergies at all. This is what Cornelia S. Seitz et al., allergologists from Würzburg University, concluded in a study with 419 patients, as presented in the current edition of Deutsches Ärzteblatt International (Dtsch Arztebl Int 2008; 105[42]: 715-23).
http://www.aerzteblatt.de/v4/archiv/pdf.asp?id=61998
After extensive allergy testing, food ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Campaigners in London planned to petition the British government Friday for a posthumous pardon for the hundreds of people executed for witchcraft between the 16th and 18th centuries.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach on Friday said a highly critical review of the agency’s stance on a chemical found in plastic food and drink containers raises important questions.
A review released Wednesday was sharply critical of the FDA’s view that the chemical Bisphenol-A, or ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
In response to questions that have arisen concerning FSIS Notices 17-07 and 18-07, the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is providing new guidance to inspection program personnel on collecting samples of beef manufacturing trimmings and other raw ground beef and patty components for Escherichia coli (E. coli ) O157:H7 ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
The mission at TraceGains (www.TraceGains.com) is to protect the brand of food and beverage clients by eliminating problems before product is shipped to the customer. According to William Pape, Founder and Executive Vice President at TraceGains, Recently we shared the results from the annual food and beverage consumer survey by ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Pointing to the hazards of melamine-containing products from China, the FDA said today it is creating an internal science and policy workgroup to keep a critical eye on the international food supply.
Detecting contamination in the increasingly international food supply is “a necessary job of the FDA,” said ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Restaurant Report Cards
The News-Sun report on Lake County Health Department restaurant inspections for the week of Oct. 13 to Oct. 17. The total number of inspections for the week was 73.
The following facilities failed inspections for violations deemed critical by the Health Department. *denotes repeat violation.
For more information on the ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
The Portsmouth City Health Department has been alerted to a possible food-borne illness at the Bridges Out Of Poverty seminar which took place at the Friends Center on Wednesday, Oct. 22 with 360 people in attendance.
“We do not know what happened, we are investigating that. Some people that attended this ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
The credit crunch began small but its ripples sent shockwaves around the world.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Rebel forces in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo pull back from positions outside of the provincial capital so aid can reach thousands of refugees displaced by four days of fighting.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Refugees have begun to take advantage of a rebel-declared cease-fire in the war-torn eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, media agencies have reported.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
The death toll from the earthquake in southwestern Pakistan will likely rise to more than 300, local officials say.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
The death toll rose from nine blasts in a remote state in India rose Friday to 67, an official in the state of Assam told CNN.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Steve Wible, a missionary who has lived in Hong Kong for 20 years, said he has not voted in the past four or five U.S. presidential elections. But this year is different.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
The rebel general who ordered a cease-fire for his forces said Thursday he has offered to create a “humanitarian corridor” so aid can safely reach thousands displaced by four days of fighting in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Federal jurors convicted the son of former Liberian president Charles Taylor Sr. of torture and conspiracy charges Thursday, said a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office in the southern district of Florida.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Turkish officials are investigating reports of a hijacking following distress signals from a Turkish-owned freighter in the Gulf of Aden, a Turkish Foreign Ministry official said Thursday.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
An Israeli archeologist has discovered what he says is the earliest-known Hebrew text, found on a shard of pottery that dates to the time of King David from the Old Testament, about 3,000 years ago.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
BEIJING — The industrial chemical melamine is commonly added to animal feed in China to make it appear higher in protein, state media reported Thursday, in what appeared to be a tacit admission by the government that contamination is widespread in the country’s food supply.
The practice of mixing melamine into ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Thousands of people demonstrated Thursday in the Syrian capital to protest a U.S. airstrike last weekend that Damascus says killed eight civilians. Some demonstrators carried signs with messages such as “America is the sponsor of destruction and wars.”
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
A small cluster of villages in eastern Netherlands has found itself in the midst of a mini-baby boom — nine months after a power outage plunged its residents in darkness for two chilly days.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
OTTAWA — According to a new analysis from theCanadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI), 99% of the 103 Ontario hospitals participating in a 2008 patient safety survey reported that they had a formal hand hygiene policy in place, and just more than one-third of these (38%) established an auditing process ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
HANCOCK COUNTY, IL — We have an update for you tonight on the E. Coli cases out of Southeast Iowa and Hancock County Illinois.
The Hancock County Health Department tells us after testing the cases out of Iowa and the one in Hancock County, they have been found to be unrelated.
The ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Health officials in the Niagara region are investigating eight new cases of E. coli infection, bringing to 31 the number of people suspected of having been sickened by the food-borne bacterium.
The outbreak has already led to the temporary closure of two popular restaurants in the southern Ontario district.
Eighteen of the ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Cicero, New York — Plainville Nature’s Fare Restaurant in Cicero is closed after the county health department found cases of salmonella.
The Onondaga County Health Department says a few cases were found at the restaurant on Route 11 in September and early October.
The information is being released now because tests were ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
An international team of researchers plans to head to Antarctica later this year to begin a four-year project exploring some of the last uncharted regions on Earth.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
DEL MAR, Calif. — Health officials say two San Diego County elementary school children have been sickened by E. coli.
The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency said Wednesday that the girls, ages 7 and 9, have been hospitalized and are expected to recover.
The agency says both girls attend ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Infosheet highlights:
In 2006, a line cook at a Michigan restaurant who showed up to work ill and vomited in a kitchen waste basket was linked to a norovirus outbreak that made 364 patrons ill
What you can do to keep poop out of the food you make or serve:
-Call in sick ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
It has been a piece of Berlin history for 80 years, a symbol of Nazi power but also of Germans’ desire for freedom after World War II.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Venezuela’s first satellite roared into space Thursday from a launching pad in southwest China.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
An Italian judge has ruled that two suspects in the killing of British exchange student Meredith Kercher must remain in jail while they await trial, the lawyer for one of the suspects said Thursday.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Nine explosions rocked a remote state in northeastern India on Thursday, police said.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Rescuers on Thursday scoured the rubble left by a 6.4-magnitude earthquake that jolted a remote area of southwest Pakistan, leaving at least 200 people dead, a local official said.
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
A suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a government ministry in Kabul on Thursday, police told CNN.
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