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September 2010

  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:43pm

    A company founded by Adelaide food identity Maggie Beer is recalling some of its chicken, beef and vegetable stock because of fears of bacteria contamination. A cook and writer, Beer also stars with Simon Bryant in The Cook and the Chef on ABC television.

    Date Published: 
    03.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    Courier Mail
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:43pm

    Today's Highlights * From May 1 to August 31, 2010, approximately 1,469 illnesses were reported that are likely to be associated with this outbreak. * FDA identified Salmonella with PFGE patterns indistinguishable from the outbreak strain in egg farm environmental samples.

    Date Published: 
    02.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    CDC
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:39pm

    Alison Young of USA Today reports today U.S. Department of Agriculture staff regularly on site at two Iowa egg processors implicated in a national salmonella outbreak were supposed to enforce rules against the presence of disease-spreading rodents and other vermin, federal regulations show.

    Date Published: 
    03.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:38pm

    Salmonella is everywhere. And while the salmonella-in-eggs-from-Iowa outbreak is capturing media attention, other outbreaks continue. The LaCrosse Tribune reports that salmonella poisoning did sicken about 30 people in Vernon County, Wisconsin late last week, but the illness is not thought to be connected to the recent nationwide egg recall.

    Date Published: 
    03.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:37pm

    Traverse City, Michigan, is not in the upper peninsula, or UP. I’m sorry.

    Date Published: 
    03.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
    E. coli  |  Comments
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    Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:37pm

    William Neuman of the New York Times writes this morning that for the first time in the U.S., public health officials have linked ground beef to illnesses from a rare strain of E. coli, adding fuel to an already fierce debate over expanding federal rules meant to keep the toxic bacteria out of the meat supply.

    Date Published: 
    03.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:36pm

    Translated by Albert Amgar

    Date Published: 
    02.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    bites
    None  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:34pm

    In September 2009, the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH) identified an outbreak of Salmonella gastroenteritis among attendees at a reception. A case-control study and environmental and laboratory investigations were conducted. Nine case-patients and 14 control subjects were identified. Potato salad consumption was strongly associated with illness (odds ratio [OR] = 84.0).

    Date Published: 
    03.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    CDC
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:33pm

    China's food monitoring and risk assessment systems are to be upgraded with new technologies and more funding, said a government report received by Xinhua Friday. The report was submitted to China's top legislature by a food safety office under the State Council, or the Cabinet, which gave an account of the government's work in implementing the Food Safety Law.

    Date Published: 
    03.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    CriEnglish
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:33pm

    Restaurant reports for the week ending Aug. 29: No critical violations: • Bean Elementary School, 3001 Ave. N • Cafe J (Bar No. 2), 2605 19th St. • Carillon (Hobnob), 1717 Norfolk Ave. • Carillon (Skilight), 1717 Norfolk Ave. •Carillon (Starlight), 1717 Norfolk Ave.

    Date Published: 
    03.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:31pm

    Grub Street New York reports the city’s No. 1 restaurant, Le Bernardin, featuring celebrity Top Cheferer Eric Ripert, received 32 demerits (4 points above the C mark) on an inspection last Friday.

    Date Published: 
    02.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:30pm

    Traducido por Gonzalo Erdozain

    Date Published: 
    01.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    bites
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  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:29pm

    The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) warned the public last night not to consume the raw beef products described below because these products may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.

    Date Published: 
    02.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
    E. coli  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:29pm

    The criminal division of the Food and Drug Administration and the Justice Department have joined the probe of the Iowa farm at the heart of the recent egg recall linked to an outbreak of salmonella, according to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg.

    Date Published: 
    01.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    Wall Street Journal
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:28pm

    To some shoppers, the meaning of the "USDA Grade A" shield on egg cartons seems pretty obvious. "It means that the rabbi's blessed this as kosher, right?" said Stephen Potter, an early-morning shopper at a Safeway store in Alexandria, Va.

    Date Published: 
    02.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    Wall Street Journal
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:26pm

    Columnist Kristof  says the latest salmonella outbreak, underscoring the failures of industrial farming, and that while inspections of Iowa poultry farms linked to the salmonella outbreak have prompted headlines about infestations with maggots and rodents, the larger truth is: industrial agriculture is itself unhealthy.

    Date Published: 
    01.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    New York Times
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:25pm

    My Thursday column is about the cost of industrial farming practices. I’m thinking not so much the price we pay in the store but the price we pay in pollution, in antibiotic-resistant diseases and in food poisonings such as the salmonella outbreak now in the headlines. It’s not so much eggs that sicken people with salmonella — it’s industrial farming models.

    Date Published: 
    01.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    Nicolas Kristof
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:25pm

    Federal inspectors are investigating the Minnesota rendering operation that supplies an ingredient used in hen feed at the Iowa egg farms linked to the national salmonella outbreak. Central Bi-Products, part of Farmers Union Industries, produced meat and bone meal that tested positive for salmonella at a feed mill operated by Quality Egg LLC in Galt, Ia.

    Date Published: 
    02.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    Des Moines Register
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:24pm

    The Allegheny County Board of Health received a draft proposal Wednesday for plans to assign area restaurants grades based on their annual inspections and post the results prominently in restaurant windows.

    Date Published: 
    02.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • Posted: September 3rd, 2010 - 7:23pm

    Costco released a statement Wednesday in response to a video of veal calves in individual crates on an Ohio farm, made surreptitiously by a group called Mercy for Animals (MFA) and teed up as cruel and inhumane treatment of the animals.

    Date Published: 
    02.sep.10
    Source Title: 
    Meatingplace
    Animal Welfare  |  Comments