Meadow Gold Dairies in Hawaii is under order to stop distributing and selling its 2 percent reduced fat milk because state tests during the past four weeks have repeatedly showed more than 10 times the allowed level of coliform bacteria it the product.
The order from the Hawaii State Department of Health on Monday will remain in effect until the company can prove its 2 percent reduced fat milk is safe. No other Meadow Gold products are implicated.
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More than a dozen staff members contracted food poisoning at a lecture held at St. Boniface Hospital.
The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority said it happened last Tuesday, when 19 staff became ill from food served at the Grand Rounds lecture.
According to the WRHA, patient and cafeteria food were not impacted by the contamination.
The food poisoning was only confined to the one event, a spokesperson said.
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Shoppers should wash their hands after leaving the supermarket thanks to dangerous bacteria lurking on millions of packs of chicken, experts say.
The plastic wrapping around one in every 100 raw chickens sold in British supermarkets are harbouring the bacteria campylobacter.
The bug is the country’s leading cause of food poisoning, and causes 100 deaths a year.
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On 27 February, WHO published its first ever list of antibiotic-resistant ‘priority pathogens’ – a catalogue of 12 families of bacteria that pose the greatest threat to human health.
The list was drawn up in a bid to guide and promote research and development (R&D) of new antibiotics, as part of WHO’s efforts to address growing global resistance to antimicrobial medicines. The list highlights in particular the threat of gram-negative bacteria that are resistant to multiple antibiotics. These bacteria have built-in abilities to find new ways to resist treatment and can pass along genetic material that allows other bacteria to become drug-resistant as well.
The WHO list is divided into three categories according to the urgency of need for new antibiotics: critical, high and medium priority.
The most critical group of all includes multi-drug resistant bacteria that pose a particular threat in hospitals, nursing homes, and among patients whose care requires devices such as ventilators and blood catheters. They include Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas and various Enterobacteriaceae (including Klebsiella, E. coli, Serratia, and Proteus). These can cause severe and often deadly infections such as bloodstream infections and pneumonia.
These bacteria have become resistant to a large number of antibiotics, including carbapenems and third generation cephalosporins – the best available antibiotics for treating multi-drug resistant bacteria.
The second and third tiers in the list – the high and medium priority categories – contain other increasingly drug-resistant bacteria that cause more common diseases such as gonorrhoea and food poisoning caused by Salmonella. [Source: WHO News Release, 27 February 2017. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2017/bacteria-antibiotics-need…]
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A public health alert issued Friday warns people who recently bought Premo brand meat or chicken wraps in 10 states to monitor themselves for symptoms of Listeria infection.
The ham, chicken and Italian wraps had best-by dates of Feb. 12 and Feb. 14 and were made with cheese that has been recalled because of possible Listeria contamination.
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Out of an abundance of caution and with an emphasis on customers’ wellness and safety, Lakeview Cheese and Bashas’ Family of Stores are proactively recalling various types of Colby cheese due to a potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes. It’s important to note that no illnesses have been reported to date.
The affected products were manufactured by Guggisberg Cheese, Inc. and by Deutsch Kase Haus, LLC of Middlebury, Indiana. The affected products were distributed by Las Vegas-based Lakeview Cheese to Bashas’ Family of Stores, and sold in Bashas’ and Food City supermarkets’ Arizona meat departments under the grocery brands’ private label.
The recall consists of nine Colby cheese products, including fixed-weight and bulk- cut, random-weight items. The products being voluntarily recalled are:
| Food City Colby Longhorn Cheese | 12 oz. |
| Food City Colby Jack Cheese | 12 oz. |
| Food City Colby Monterey Cheese | 12 oz. |
| Random Weight Longhorn Colby Cheese | |
| Random Weight Cut Co-Jack Cheese | |
| Random Weight Cut Monterey Jack Cheese | |
| Random Weight Cut Pepper Jack Cheese | |
| Random Weight Colby Quarter Longhorn | |
| Random Weight Colby Horn | |
Bashas’ and Food City customers who have purchased these products between September 1, 2016 and February 21, 2017 can return them for a full refund. Customers with questions can call Bashas’ Family of Stores’ Customer Service Department at 480-883-6131.
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With global temperatures on the rise, preventing temperature abuse is more important than ever. I have several clients who have witnessed guests afflicted with scombroid poisoning right there in their dining room, during service.
Scombroid fish, especially those as common as Tuna and Mahi-mahi, can produce a nasty combination of substances known as scombrotoxin, which, when consumed, can lead to scombroid poisoning. Scombroid poisoning, in turn, sickens your guest almost immediately, results in lawsuits or insurance claims, and the Dept of Health will dispatch their foodborne illness inspectors to conduct a thorough audit of your restaurant.
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RASFF – aflatoxins (B1 = 25; Tot. = 36 µg/kg – ppb) in pistachios from Turkey in the Netherlands
RASFF–aflatoxins (B1 = 12.97; Tot. = 14.00 / B1 = 13.48; Tot. = 14.54 µg/kg – ppb) in pistachios in shell from the United States in Cyprus
RASFF–aflatoxins (B1 > 24; Tot. > 24 µg/kg – ppb) in pistachios in shell from Iran in Spain
RASFF – aflatoxins (B1 = 3.9; Tot. = 10.9 / Tot. = 6.7 µg/kg – ppb) in shelled peanuts from China in Spain
RASFF–aflatoxins (B1 = >24; Tot. = >24 µg/kg – ppb) in pistachios in shell from Iran in Spain
RASFF–aflatoxins (B1 = 18.5; Tot. = 21.5 µg/kg – ppb) in shelled groundnuts from China in Spain
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RASFF – organic fruit puree (smoothies) from Italy infested with moulds in Denmark
RASFF-mandarins from Morocco infested with moulds in Spain
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RASFF – shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (stx1+ O87:H8) in frozen deer meat from New Zealand in Germany
RASFF – shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli (stx2+ O113:H21 /25g) in frozen leg of lamb without bone from Uruguay in Germany
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