October 31st, 2008 laurie
The toxic chemical melamine is probably being routinely added to Chinese animal feed, BBC News reports. Correspondents say the unusually frank reports in several news outlets are an admission that contamination could be widespread throughout the food chain.
The melamine scandal began early in September, when at least four Chinese babies were killed by contaminated […]
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October 31st, 2008 joshua
Minnesota turkeys are suspected of spreading salmonella poisoning at a Syracuse, N.Y., restaurant.
The Nature’s Fair Restaurant in Plainville will be closed until next Friday while employees will be tested and the restaurant will be cleaned.
Twenty people at the restaurant, customers and employees, have contracted salmonella poisoning since mid-August, according to WSYR-AM in Syracuse.
Health officials aren’t […]
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October 29th, 2008 joshua
A second restaurant in Ontario, Canada’s Niagara region has voluntarily closed its doors because it is suspected in an E. coli outbreak.
The Globe and Mail reports M.T. Bellies shut its doors Tuesday after two people who contracted E. coli poisoning said they ate there. It is the second restaurant to close in that region in […]
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October 29th, 2008 laurie
Since melamine-tainted eggs turned up in Hong Kong, China authorities on Wednesday promised to crack down and severely punish those responsible, Reuters reports.
At least four children have died and tens of thousands were made ill amid the melamine scandal, the latest in a series of health scares to sully the “made in China” label. Chinese […]
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October 29th, 2008 joshua
A $3.2 million food poisoning verdict awarded to a Florida woman who suffered permanent nerve damage after eating raw tuna has been upheld by an appeals court.
Alexis Sarti, a 25-year-old woman from Costa Mesa, Fla., sustained permanent nerve damage after she ate raw tuna at a restaurant in Florida.
Soon after eating an appetizer which had […]
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October 28th, 2008 laurie
Mars Petcare has announced another Special Kitty cat food recall for salmonella, this time of Gourmet Blend dry cat food sold at Wal-Mart in Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia, Vermont, and West Virginia.
Salmonella can cause serious infections in dogs and cats, […]
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October 27th, 2008 laurie
The Valley News reports that Fulton Mayor Ron Woodward believes that the E. coli bacteria found in a sampling of water in the northeast quadrant of the city might have been caused by water-main breaks in that area during the routine flushing of hydrants.
“We had three water main breaks during the flushing on the east […]
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October 24th, 2008 joshua
A salmonella outbreak at several San Fernando Valley and East Los Angeles pre-schools has sickened more than two dozen children and adults and sent at least 15 to the hospital for treatment.
All the cases have been reported in the past week, according to L.A. County officials and KTLA-TV News.
The salmonella outbreak has been traced to […]
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October 24th, 2008 joshua
A Seattle Mexican restaurant is open again after an E. coli outbreak sickened at least 19 people.
The Ixtapa restaurant opened its doors on Wednesday, the same day a lawsuit was filed on behalf of a 9-year-old girl who needed to be rushed to a local emergency room a few days after eating at the restaurant.
According […]
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October 23rd, 2008 laurie
The E. coli outbreak in North Bay, Ontario, which stemmed from Harvey’s restaurant, has jumped to 36, the Ontario region’s health authority reported Wednesday. Canwest News reports that North Bay/Parry Sound District Health Unit is now investigating a total of 190 E. coli cases, 36 of which have been lab-confirmed to have originated from the […]
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