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August 2009

  • Posted: August 28th, 2009 - 1:51pm

    Mike Bennett, writing on behalf of the Safe Food Counts Committee, Windsor-Essex County Health Unit., says every year, 11 to 13 million Canadians suffer from a food-borne illness, and it is the health unit's responsibility to move toward reducing that risk.

    Date Published: 
    28.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    The Windsor Star
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  • Posted: August 28th, 2009 - 1:48pm

    ATLANTA -- Georgia Tech freshman Elise Woodall was met with a message scrawled on the bathroom mirror of her dorm when she moved in two weeks ago: "Wash your hands. Swine is not fine." Colleges across the country are seeing spikes in the number of students with suspected cases of swine flu as dorms fill up and classes begin for the fall semester.

    Date Published: 
    28.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Associated Press
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  • Posted: August 28th, 2009 - 1:43pm

    Did you hear the one about the food company executive who learned the hard way how an ill-advised joke can turn into no laughing matter?

    Date Published: 
    28.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    The Globe and Mail
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  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 10:02pm

    Tahlia means "sent from heaven", and when their daughter overcame enormous odds to survive severe meningitis the Zougaibs knew they chose the right name. After a healthy pregnancy first-time parents Laura and Charlie were shocked to learn their newborn daughter was suffering an infection on her brain from the rare listeria bacteria passed from mother to baby by contaminated food.

    Date Published: 
    28.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Herald Sun
    Listeria  |  Comments
  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 10:02pm

    IMPHAL -- At least ten persons of Dolang village including a minors were hospitalized after consuming mixure curry of local eggs and Musouri dal at Dolang village under Tamenglong district yesterday .

    Date Published: 
    26.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Kangla Online
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  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 10:01pm

    LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles city attorney has filed criminal charges against three local businesses for the alleged sale of dangerous, unpasteurized cheese from Mexico.

    Date Published: 
    27.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    San Jose Mercury News
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  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 10:00pm

    aswaaq has installed sanitizer units at its supermarkets in Dubai. The units, which were installed at the trolley section, were brought in to help maintain high levels of health and safety in aswaaq’s branches.

    Date Published: 
    27.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Eye of Dubai
    Handwashing  |  Comments
  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 9:59pm

    Apple grower-shippers in New York and Pennsylvania continue to invest heavily in food safety programs. Lee Showalter, owner of Five Forks Fruit, Waynesboro, Pa., is in his third year at his “second job”: director of food safety and grower services for Gardners, Pa.-based Rice Fruit Co.

    Date Published: 
    27.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    The Packer
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 9:58pm

    Special coverage from the National Conference on Animal Identification (ID INFO) in Kansas City, Mo., Aug. 25-27

    Date Published: 
    27.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Feedstuffs
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  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 9:58pm

    Dodgy stallholders trying to cash in on the success of farmers' markets in Victoria are the target of a new accreditation system. Organisers hope the new system, which will include farm inspections, will rid markets of operators who resell produce bought from wholesale markets.

    Date Published: 
    28.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    The Age
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 9:56pm

    Poultry connection strengthens global H1N1 pandemic ROME and WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The detection of an H1N1 virus in turkeys in Chile raises concern that poultry farms elsewhere in the world could also become infected with the pandemic flu virus currently circulating in humans, FAO said today.

    Date Published: 
    27.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 9:54pm

    ATLANTA -- U.S. health authorities are turning to social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter in a bid to prepare people to be vaccinated against the pandemic H1N1 virus.

    Date Published: 
    27.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Reuters
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  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 9:53pm

    The Idaho State Department of Agriculture is proposing to update quality standards in its rules governing retail sale of raw milk and to exempt operations with three cows or fewer from meeting Grade A facility standards, a requirement for selling raw milk.

    Date Published: 
    27.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Capital Press
    Raw Food  |  Comments
  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 9:52pm

    COLUMBIA, Mo. – According to the "hardwired for news" theory, people devote more attention to information that is deviant or threatening. To test the theory, University of Missouri researchers examined the physiological effects of reading threatening health news online.

    Date Published: 
    27.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    University of Missouri-Columbia
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  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 9:50pm

    The Topeka Capitol-Journal has a great story about a fellow named Doug Powell, associate professor of food safety at Kansas State University, who has created a website at barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu designed to allow people to post their most disgusting stories about their experiences with food poisoning and its often inevitable results.

    Date Published: 
    27.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    MorningNewsBeat.com
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 12:22pm

    Michelle Marcotte, an ex-pat Canadian and regulatory affairs consultant based in Glenn Dale, Maryland, who has worked in 40 countries, eaten well, but carefully, and never been sick, writes:

    Date Published: 
    27.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
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  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 12:20pm

    A nine-year-old girl from Denbighshire is awaiting test results after being treated as a probable case of E.Coli O157. It comes a week after a seven-year-old girl, also from Denbighshire, was recovering from E.Coli after visiting Dance Camp Wales in Pembrokeshire. The nine-year-old also attended the event, held from July 29 to August 9.

    Date Published: 
    27.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Free Press
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 12:19pm

    The Globe and Mail Gloria Galloway http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/listeria-outbreak-just-a-matter-of-time/article1266087/ OTTAWA -- Liberals and Conservatives are accusing each other of playing politics over the listeriosis outbreak one year ago that resulted in 22 deaths.

    Date Published: 
    27.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    Canadian Press
    Listeria  |  Comments
  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 12:18pm

    DUBAI -- Normally, food inspectors spend their time haranguing restaurants about the need for good hygiene. Now, they are taking aim at a new group: housewives who prepare meals for their families every day.

    Date Published: 
    26.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    The National
  • Posted: August 27th, 2009 - 12:16pm

    Chef Cecil Morris Jr., 46, of Mobile, Ala., knows what it's like to be on both sides of the soup kitchen line. He was homeless and addicted to drugs and alcohol in 1992 when he entered the local Salvation Army's adult rehab center.

    Date Published: 
    26.aug.09
    Source Title: 
    USA Today
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