Salmonella

Posted: November 13th, 2008 - 3:27pm by Doug Powell

The PBS news video is a couple of months old, but is a decent instructional tool for what various government agencies did during the Great Salmonella Outbreak of 2008. 

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Posted: November 7th, 2008 - 4:47am by Doug Powell

Kansas State University president Jon Wefald likes my dogs.Four times a week, I walk Amy to her office, and we pass by the admin types in Anderson Hall, which is next door to Amy’s building. Yesterday was typical. President Wefald was standing in his corner office and gave a big wave to Amy and me and the dogs as we walked by

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Posted: October 24th, 2008 - 9:11am by Doug Powell

At least 15 children have been hospitalized and nearly 30 children and adults as part of a Salmonella outbreak at several preschools in the San Fernando Valley and East Los Angeles.The outbreak was traced to a North Hollywood kitchen that supplies food to the 29 preschools operated by the Volunteers of America of Greater Los Angeles, a faith-based nonprofit organization, said David Dassey of the L

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Posted: October 18th, 2008 - 5:11pm by Doug Powell

Hartz chicken-basted rawhide chips for dogs are being voluntarily recalled due to concerns that one or more bags within the lot are potentially contaminated with Salmonella.The company announced the recall Friday, saying the two-pound plastic bags of chips with lot code JC23282, UPC number 3270096463 were distributed to a national retail customer it did not identify

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Posted: October 15th, 2008 - 12:00am by Doug Powell

That’s what a frustrated Kirk Smith, head of the foodborne disease unit of the Minnesota Department of Health, suggested to USA Today today as he described how people are still getting sick with Salmonella by microwaving raw, frozen, breaded chicken, despite the lack of microwave instructions."We wish the labels would be even more emphatic

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Posted: October 10th, 2008 - 8:38am by Doug Powell

The microwaving raw frozen breaded chicken thingies turned out to be a huge media story. An outbreak picked up by the Minnesota State Department of Health turned into 32 people sick with the same Salmonella in 12 states, and led to numerous calls for people to be careful with this kind of meal solution, especially when using microwaves

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Posted: October 7th, 2008 - 7:04am by Doug Powell

Syrup sorta goes with pancakes. But not when it’s the source of Salmonella that led to three separate outbreaks at the same IHOP restaurant.KFDA -- NewsChannel10 – reports that health officials have identified a warm water basin used to keep syrup containers hot was the source of salmonella in the restaurant

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Posted: October 6th, 2008 - 4:38pm by Doug Powell

A television show recently showed parents how to make chicken strips for their children in a short amount of time. The recipe was simple enough: strips of chicken were rolled in crumbs and placed in the oven for 10 minutes. The host of the show went on to explain, as the strips came out of the oven, simply squeeze the strips to determine the doneness of the product

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Posted: October 6th, 2008 - 8:16am by Doug Powell

An outbreak of salmonella in raw, frozen, breaded stuffed chicken has sickened 32 people in 12 states. As the number of frozen, meal solutions increase – chicken kiev, cordon blue, strips, nuggets and others – a Kansas State professor is warning consumers to be careful with that entrée

Posted: October 5th, 2008 - 3:09pm by Doug Powell

I was a fan of Quebec agriculture minister Laurent Lessard.After two separate outbreaks  -- one listeria, one salmonella – in Quebec-made cheese that killed two, caused one miscarriage, sickened six other pregnant women and their newborn babies, and sickened a total of about 120 people, Lessard ordered a crackdown

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