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April 26, 2006 • Listeria
Moveable Feast recalls products because of possible health risk: Product was distributed through retail stores, home delivery grocers, and direct delivery
April 26, 2006 Kansas City infoZine Moonachie, NJ – infoZine – Moveable Feast, Inc. of Moonachie, New Jersey is recalling Smoked Scottish and Smoked Norwegian Salmon, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children …
April 25, 2006 • Outbreaks
April 24, 2006 • Salmonella
Chew on this: Food news you can use
Edie Sutton, educator at Purdue University Cooperative Extension in St. Joseph County, says grade AA or A eggs should be fresh and properly refrigerated, have a sound shell and be clean to help prevent salmonella. Some Tribune readers with recipes that include eggs say they use gelatin or whipping cream …
April 24, 2006 • Outbreaks
April 22, 2006 • Events & Speaking Engagements
Washington State Bar Association 4th Annual Animal Law CLE (2006)
Dave Babcock discussed E. coli O157:H7 litigation and the as-yet improbability of Mad Cow Disease litigation in a presentation for the Washington State Bar Association. …
April 21, 2006 • Salmonella
Tech researcher’s mixture reduces E. coli, salmonella
Consumers soon should be able to buy beef and poultry products that have an added level of safety against two sometimes fatal sources of food poisoning. Mindy Brashear, a researcher at Texas Tech University applied a mixture of four different lactic acid bacterium to ground beef and found the combination …
April 21, 2006 • Hepatitis A
Health Department Says Over Two Dozen High School Students Exposed To Hepatitis A Virus
LEXINGTON April 20, 2006 More than two dozen students at Tates Creek High School have been exposed to Hepatitis A, and now the health department wants them to get checked out. Officials with the health department have determined that 26 students, all freshmen, at the school tutored a third grade …
April 21, 2006 • Hepatitis A
Dozens of high schoolers exposed to hepatitis A
April 20, 2006 WKYT.com (Kentucky) New information on the Hepatitis A outbreak that’s hit some Fayette county schools. The Health Department says it now appears some Tates Creek High School students may have been exposed. 26 freshmen tutored a third grade class at Tates Creek Elementary while a student with …
April 21, 2006 • Salmonella
There’s something in the water, and it’s not just fish
Fish tanks can harbour a gastric bug capable of causing illness serious enough for infected children to have to go to hospital, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Australian researchers proved the link between gastroenteritis and fish tanks by showing that the strains of salmonella in patients and in their home …
April 21, 2006 • Salmonella
Dirty fridges cause food poisoning
Irish scientists have warned the public to be more careful about how they store food in household fridges to avoid the risk of a serious form of food poisoning. They also say that fridges should be cleaned and disinfected regularly and old food emptied out to help prevent the spread …
April 20, 2006 • Hepatitis A
Lawsuits filed over Hepatitis-A outbreak
April 20, 2006 Jacksboro, Campbell County (WVLT) – Concerns over a Hepatitis-A outbreak last spring in Campbell County are resurfacing. Four people have filed lawsuits against a Jacksboro restaurant they believe may have helped spread the outbreak. Whitney Daniel has the details of each lawsuit and explains why these people …
April 20, 2006 • Outbreaks
April 19, 2006 • Outbreaks
Toledo E. coli outbreak linked to contaminated fruit served by caterer
A preliminary investigation report released by the Ohio Department of Health pointed to contaminated fruit served at seven catered events in the Toledo area as the source of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that sickened 14 people and killed one woman last September. Two people developed hemolytic uremic syndrome, a …
April 19, 2006 • Hepatitis A
Get the 411 on hepatitis
April 19, 2006 Airdrie Echo Karen Lazaruk Do you know that hepatitis is a form of liver disease? If you do, you are more informed than about 50 per cent of Canadians, according to a recent survey. The Canadian Liver Foundation recently commissioned a study to gauge Canadians’ knowledge about …
April 19, 2006 • Listeria
Proper precautions ensure food safety
April 19, 2006 The Republican (MA) Carrie Taylor Q:I recently found out that I’m pregnant and was told I shouldn’t eat lunch meat anymore. Is this true? A:When it comes to the issue of lunch meat and pregnancy, the topic is really about food-borne infection or illness. Food-borne illness occurs …
April 19, 2006 • Outbreaks
April 18, 2006 • Salmonella
Now wash your hands…
A new study has found that some aquariums contain bacteria that are capable of producing serious infections in humans. The presence of Salmonella and other enteric pathogens such as Aeromonas in aquarium water has been known about for some time. According to the results of a study by a team …
April 18, 2006 • Salmonella
Battle against foodborne diseases gaining ground, study shows
Incidents of many foodborne illness have declined since statistical collection began in 1996, with rates for some of the most common pathogens falling by up to 32 per cent. However, Listeria infection rates have started to climb again, according to preliminary data published by the federally-funded Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance …
April 18, 2006 • Outbreaks
April 17, 2006 • Salmonella
Study: Cut antibiotic use in food animals
Scientists say Australia’s restricting of antibiotic use in food-producing animals may be linked with lower levels of drug-resistance among its citizens. Government scientists say Campylobacter jejuni is a leading bacterial cause of foodborne illness in industrialized nations. Drug resistance can make Campylobacter infections difficult for physicians to treat, and can …
April 17, 2006 • Salmonella
Salmonella found in state plants’ ground turkey
Half the ground turkey that federal inspectors tested last year at the largest Jennie-O Turkey Store plant in Willmar contained salmonella bacteria, one of the highest rates in the nation and close to failing the federal standard, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Salmonella levels at two other Jennie-O ground turkey …
April 17, 2006 • Listeria
US fails to meet goal on Listeria as rate rises
Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:14pm ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States fell short of its 2005 goal to reduce cases of the foodborne bacteria Listeria by 50 percent, according to a government report released on Thursday. …
April 17, 2006 • Outbreaks
April 17, 2006 • Outbreaks
April 17, 2006 • Hepatitis A
Hepatitis A found again, this time in Tates Creek third-grader
By Raviya H. Ismail HERALD-LEADER EDUCATION WRITER Health department officials said yesterday that a third-grader at Tates Creek Elementary School has been diagnosed with hepatitis A. The infected student is a sibling to a preschool student at Yates Elementary School who was diagnosed with the virus last month. …
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