Each year, food-borne pathogens cause an estimated 48 million illnesses (affecting one in six people), 128,000 hospitalizations and 3,000 deaths, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Variant E.

Aerosmith frontman, American Idol judge and androgynous scarf-model Steven Tyler fell in his shower this morning in a Paraguay hotel, requiring treatment for injuries to his face, including loss of teeth. Sources connected with Tyler told TMZ dude was suffering from dehydration caused by a bout of food poisoning.

Killing customers is bad for business. Especially the valued repeat customer. It’s also bad for business to make customers barf. But, companies do it all the time, so there is a need for regulation, a legal system, and public oversight to at least embarrass so-called leaders into providing safe food.

A youngster who enjoyed a paddle in the water at a Lancashire beauty spot ended up being struck down with the E.coli bug. Jude Chambers, four, of Great Park Drive, Leyland, went to Cuerden Valley Park near Bamber Bridge with his parents Steve and Simone three weeks ago.

Taypack Potatoes, based near Inchture, supplies Mackie's crisps and the firm is aiming to break into the lucrative export market. However, this move has received a major setback with Mackie's Aberdeen Angus beef-flavoured crisps being banned in America over fears about BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy), which can cause the brain condition known as 'mad cow disease.'

The newest food safety infosheet, a graphical one-page food safety-related story directed at food businesses, is now available at www.foodsafetyinfosheets.com Food Safety Infosheet Highlights: - An estimated 7,700 diners may have been exposed to Hepatitis A in Texas.

Today's Highlights As of 9am EDT on October 24, 2011, a total of 133 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported to CDC from 26 states. Twenty-eight deaths have been reported. In addition, one woman pregnant at the time of illness had a miscarriage.

MLST extended with flaB typing of 425 Campylobacter jejuni and 42 C. colirevealed a quite low overlap between human isolates from travel-associated and domestic cases in Switzerland. Men were more frequently affected byCampylobacter than women, but strains from women and overall from travel-associated cases more frequently showed mutations conferring quinolone resistance.

YAMAYA USA, INC of Torrance, CA is recalling Masago (Capelin Roe), because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems.