The number of people sickened by the Shigella outbreak traced to a Lombard sandwich shop is now at 50, DuPage County Health Department spokesman David Hass said this afternoon. Thursday's count was 49. Hass added that all 10 people who were hospitalized for the illness have been discharged. "It's still an ongoing investigation," Hass said today.

Traduzido por: Manoelita Warkentien O mais novo folheto de Segurança Alimentar, que é uma página gráfica de histórias relacionadas a segurança alimentar – direcionadas para manipuladores de alimentos, está agora disponível em www.foodsafetyinfosheets.com Destaques do novo folheto:

There are a lot of bad words out there, so bad that they can only be used in polite society by calling them the (Place first letter here) word as in the “R” word. Let me type out that one here just this one time: “Recall.” It’s a word that makes everybody in the beef industry cringe.

It’s a mystery, how various health agencies decide when to issue public warnings about particular food products. On Wednesday, Ontario health officials announced they were investigating two cases of listeriosis that appear to be linked to salami recalled from stores in Ontario and Quebec about three months ago.

The Marriage Ref is a terrible show, even with A-lister guests Madonna, Larry David and Ricky Gervais, some of my personal favorites. The scene of the couple sharing pretty much everything with a giant salmonella-shedding iguana brought no complaints, and while Entertainment Weekly has already have called the episode much better than the previous, it still sucked.

OTTAWA -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to consume the foods described below because these products may be contaminated with Salmonella. These foods contain dry powder and paste hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) ingredients which have been recalled in the U.S. and Canada by Basic Food Flavors Inc. due to Salmonella contamination.

The newest food safety infosheet, a graphical one-page food safety-related story directed at food handlers, is now available at www.foodsafetyinfosheets.com Food Safety Infosheet Highlights: - 7 of 21 linked cases required hospitalization

Sorenne and I only got through the start of The Colbert Report this morning before it was off to vaccinations, so this post is somewhat late. But Stefan did take an excellent shot at more food wackiness being peddled on the Internet and insisted on his home herb garden, because, “I refuse to live in a world where I can’t garnish.”

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By watching how energy moves across a tiny device akin to a springing diving board, Cornell researchers are a step closer to creating extraordinarily tiny sensors that can instantly recognize harmful substances in air or water.