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March 2011

  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 7:24pm

    Although details are limited at this point, officials believe sausage from a Frederick County 4-H Country Butchering event back in late January is to blame for an outbreak of salmonella connected back to a benefit pancake breakfast earlier in March in Thurmont, MD.

    Date Published: 
    31.mar.11
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    barfblog
    Salmonella  |  Comments
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    Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 7:23pm

    I hate to armchair quarterback videos especially because it's easy to nitpick them and pretty tough to make them, but a video posted by the Vancouver Sun as part of a new at home food safety campaign (RUHotEnuf?) struck me as a bit ironic (but maybe I'm getting that definition wrong).

    Date Published: 
    31.mar.11
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    barfblog
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 7:18pm

    Is cooking food until it’s ‘piping hot’ a science-based recommendation? The Food Standards Agency has published its updated Strategy to 2015: Safer food for the nation with five core principles: • putting the consumer first; • openness and transparency; • science and evidence-based; • acting independently; and,

    Date Published: 
    31.mar.11
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    barfblog
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 7:16pm

    Those hands-free electronic water faucets that seem to be in every public bathroom may not be that great at keeping us germ free after all. A study of newly installed fixtures at Johns Hopkins Hospital showed the faucets were more likely to be contaminated with a common and hazardous bacteria than the old fashioned faucets with separate handles for hot and cold water.

    Date Published: 
    31.mar.11
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    barfblog
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 7:14pm

    A new notice from the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) indicates that it is going to take a harder look at slaughter plants that continue to accept animals from livestock suppliers that have had repeated violative residues.

    Date Published: 
    31.mar.11
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    Dairy Herd Network
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 7:12pm

    The genetic similarity of Campylobacter jejuni isolates from pets, compared to human clinical cases and retail food isolates collected in Ireland over 2001-2006 was investigated by cluster analysis of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) fingerprinting profiles.

    Date Published: 
    31.mar.11
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    Irish Veterinary Journal 2011, 64:6
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 7:11pm

    Researchers commonly employ strategies to increase participation in health studies. These include use of incentives and intensive reminders.

    Date Published: 
    31.mar.11
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    BMC Medical Research Methodology 2011, 11:33
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 7:10pm

    The Food Standards Agency is reminding local authorities and dairy businesses about the rules on the sale of raw drinking milk and unpasteurised dairy products. This follows the announcement by Defra that cattle testing positive for bovine tuberculosis, known as TB reactors, are to be tracked using their DNA to further strengthen controls to prevent the spread of TB.

    Date Published: 
    31.mar.11
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    Food Standards Agency
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 7:09pm

    CARSON, Calif. -- Carson, Calif.-based Frankly Fresh, Inc. is voluntarily recalling its seafood salad products packed under the Frankly Fresh label in a variety of sizes in plastic containers with affected code dates between March 19 and April 23, 2011, because they could possibly be contaminated with Listeria.

    Date Published: 
    30.mar.11
    Source Title: 
    Associated Press
    Listeria  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 7:08pm

    Nutrition Express of Torrance, CA is voluntarily recalling specific products containing whey protein isolate sourced from one supplier because they have the potential to be contaminated with Salmonella, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.

    Date Published: 
    29.mar.11
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    FDA
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 7:07pm

    All information from restaurant inspections is provided by the health departments in Christian, Todd and Trigg counties. A minimum score of 85 with no critical violations is considered passing. Restaurants have a chance to increase their scores by correcting critical problems while the inspector is on site.

    Date Published: 
    30.mar.11
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    The Eagle Post
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 6:05pm

    The number of suspected cases of salmonella linked to a Rhode Island bakery has increased to 43 people, the Health Department reported Wednesday. Health officials said 22 of those people have been hospitalized. 

    Date Published: 
    30.mar.11
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    barfblog
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 6:04pm

    CBC News asked hockey goon and University of British Columbia microbiology type Kevin Allen to test 44 packages of sprouts for bacteria from across the country and he found lots. There was no salmonella but Allen found 93 per cent tested positive for bacteria, and in some cases, high levels of enterococci bacteria, which is an indicator of fecal contamination.

    Date Published: 
    30.mar.11
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    barfblog
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 6:03pm

    In the wake of a massive egg recall in August 2010, an investigation by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) into the role of its egg graders recently found that communication breakdowns between producers, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the egg graders led to problems in another egg recall 3 months later.

    Date Published: 
    30.mar.11
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    CIDRAP
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  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 6:02pm

    Des piments ont été la cause première de l’intoxication alimentaire à Salmonella en 2008 avec plus de 1 500 personnes malades Des salades de piments et de tomates, qui sont restées à température ambiante, ont pu rendre l’intoxication alimentaire plus importante

    Date Published: 
    28.mar.11
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    bites
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  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 6:02pm

    PUTRAJAYA -- A total of 311 food poisoning cases were reported last year of which 157 or about 50 per cent involved school canteens, Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said. He said the 311 cases was an increase of 29 cases from the previous year and mostly due to contamination of food during preparation, transportation or serving.

    Date Published: 
    30.mar.11
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    BERNAMA
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 6:01pm

    The staff from Invima [National Institute for Drug and Food Surveillance by its initials in Spanish] and from laboratories of the Cauca department [state or province equivalent] Secretariat of Health have been conducting a series of studies to identify the causes of an outbreak of gastroenteritis that affected about 128 people and was linked to a well-known fast food restaurant.

    Date Published: 
    30.mar.11
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    ProMED
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 6:00pm

    French police were investigating today how a bag of hashish resin blocks, eaten by kids who mistook them for breakfast cereal bars, came to be left in the grounds of a school. The students told teachers that they found the package containing the "leafy-flavored breakfast bars" hidden between a bush and the school fence during recess Friday, Le Progres newspaper reported.

    Date Published: 
    30.mar.11
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    barfblog
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  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 5:59pm

    The Pingo Doce supermarket chain has denied that frozen shrimp which is sold in their premises contains any bacteria. The Spanish multinational Pescanova also came out in defense of their products.

    Date Published: 
    31.mar.11
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    FIS
  • Posted: March 31st, 2011 - 5:58pm

    Critical violations of state sanitation and safety laws determined by inspectors at five South Florida restaurants last week prompted the Florida Department of Business & Professional Regulation to temporarily close them.

    Date Published: 
    30.mar.11
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    Sun Sentinel