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July 2010

  • Posted: July 23rd, 2010 - 9:15am

    JEFFERSON -- The Jefferson County Health Department is looking into what it calls an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness which has caused 34 people to get sick in recent days.

 Health officials blame norovirus, referred to as "stomach flu," as the cause of the foodborne illness.

    Date Published: 
    22.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    620 WTMJ
    Norovirus  |  Comments
  • Posted: July 23rd, 2010 - 9:14am

    CARLSBAD — Subway, 2521 S. Canal St., Unit C, was inspected by the State of New Mexico Environment Department on June 24, 2010. The facility received an approved rating with no training or follow up inspection required. The following information is from the report filed by the department. No high-risk violations were found.

    Date Published: 
    22.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    Carlsbad Current-Argus
  • Posted: July 23rd, 2010 - 9:13am

    Restaurant reports for the week ending July 18: NO CRITICAL VIOLATIONS • AFC Sushi at United Supermarket, 401 Slide Road • Burrito Tower, 3001 34th St. • Copper Rawlings Senior Center, 213 40th St. • Crazy Muffinz, 6002 Slide Road • Denny’s, 4718 Slide Road • E-Z Mart, 7402 Quaker Ave.

    Date Published: 
    23.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
  • Posted: July 23rd, 2010 - 9:11am

    When someone says Australian boarding school, all I can think of is the highlarious television show, Summer Heights High. Some researchers from Canberra report in the current issue of Foodborne Pathogens and Disease about an outbreak of Campylobacter jejuni gastroenteritis at an Australian boarding school.

    Date Published: 
    22.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
  • Posted: July 23rd, 2010 - 9:10am

    No, I wouldn’t. Wives are to be cherished, not treated like cows. I have five daughters and they were all breast-fed. Breast milk is for babies, not food porn. Daniel Angerer disagrees. Gael Greene reported back in March how Angerer (sounds like a name Stephen Colbert made up) was serving customers cheese made from his wife’s breast milk.

    Date Published: 
    22.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
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  • Posted: July 23rd, 2010 - 9:09am

    At pretty well every conference or meeting I went to in 2008 and 2009 I was given a reusable grocery bag. A decent registration gift to hold programs, promotional materials and goodies – that served some post-meeting utility as well. Not a bad replacement for the laptop bags that were ubiquitous in the five years before.

    Date Published: 
    22.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
  • Posted: July 23rd, 2010 - 9:08am

    America isn’t France, but increasingly dogs are allowed to join folks for a public meal. Sharon Peters writes in today’s The USA Today that across America, an ever-growing number of eating establishments, many of them high-end, are opening their patios to diners who want to share their eating-out experience with their pets.

    Date Published: 
    22.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
    Animals  |  Comments
  • Posted: July 23rd, 2010 - 9:07am

    The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will have more than 500 comments from the public to sift through when it begins the challenging task of writing regulations to make produce safer.

    Date Published: 
    21.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    CIDRAP
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  • Posted: July 23rd, 2010 - 9:06am

    A couple people have learned the hard way that mixing dogs and their jobs isn't necessarily a good idea. 1) A Peterborough (Ontario) Regional Health Centre employee has been disciplined for performing an ultrasound on their pregnant dog in the hospital's emergency department. This raised various concerns, including:

    Date Published: 
    22.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    Worms & Germs Blog
    Animals  |  Comments
  • Posted: July 23rd, 2010 - 9:05am

    The Food Standards Agency has released the latest results of its quarterly tracker survey, which monitors public opinion and awareness of the Food Standards Agency and key food issues.

    Date Published: 
    22.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    FSA
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  • Posted: July 23rd, 2010 - 9:03am

    OTTAWA -– The public warning issued on July 20, 2010 has been expanded to include additional products, best before codes, and distribution for the affected products.

    Date Published: 
    21.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    CFIA
    Listeria  |  Comments
  • Posted: July 23rd, 2010 - 9:02am

    OTTAWA -- The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and G. Brandt Meat Packers Ltd. are warning the public not to consume the Brandt headcheese products described below, because they may be contaminated with Salmonella. All flavours of Brandt Headcheese products, bearing Establishment number 164 and purchased up to and including July 21, 2010, are affected by this alert.

    Date Published: 
    21.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    CFIA
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: July 22nd, 2010 - 8:46am

    Food poisoning has apparently caused the postponement of Elton John's scheduled concert at Tucson Arena. The Arizona Daily Star reports that Wednesday night's show was nearly sold out with about 8,800 tickets purchased. Organizers say the British rocker will perform Thursday night instead.

    Date Published: 
    21.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
    Norovirus  |  Comments
  • Posted: July 22nd, 2010 - 8:46am

    A local salmonella outbreak affecting 26 people, one of whom had to be hospitalized, has put food safety high on the public agenda. The Kenosha County Health Department last week closed the Baker Street restaurant, 6208 Green Bay Road, because some of those who became sick had eaten there. The restaurant reopened Tuesday with the Health Department’s blessing.

    Date Published: 
    20.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    Kenosha News
  • Posted: July 22nd, 2010 - 8:45am

    A new form of paper with the built-in ability to fight disease-causing bacteria could have applications that range from anti-bacterial bandages to food packaging that keeps food fresher longer to shoes that ward off foot odor. A report about the new material, which consists of the thinnest possible sheets of carbon, appears in ACS Nano, a monthly journal.

    Date Published: 
    21.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    American Chemical Society
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  • Posted: July 22nd, 2010 - 8:44am

    A 42-year-old Italian woman was reported as the second ever case of mad cow disease in humans in the country and is currently hospitalised in desperate conditions, the ANSA news agency said on Wednesday.

    Date Published: 
    22.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    The Sydney Morning Herald
  • Posted: July 22nd, 2010 - 8:44am

    WETASKIWIN, Alta. — With the Canadian cattle industry still recovering from the aftermath of the mad cow disease outbreak, a group of farmers in B.C. has hit upon a unique niche product — wine-fed beef. And if an Oliver, B.C.-based producer had his way, this delicacy would soon show up on dinner plates at high-end Alberta steakhouses.

    Date Published: 
    21.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    Toronto Sun
  • Posted: July 22nd, 2010 - 8:43am

    CHICAGO -- Many people like the taste of raw – as in unpasteurized – milk. The problem, of course, is that germs may infect raw milk, so food safety regulations require that commercial milk producers heat-treat their product. But food scientists at Louisiana State University think they’ve stumbled onto a tastier way to sterilize milk. They bombard it with sound waves.

    Date Published: 
    21.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    ScienceNews
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Posted: July 22nd, 2010 - 8:42am

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    Date Published: 
    21.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    Food Control
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  • Posted: July 22nd, 2010 - 8:41am

    Abstract

    Date Published: 
    21.jul.10
    Source Title: 
    Food Control
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