Monthly Archives: January 2018

Radio Liberty

Dozens of people have been stricken with salmonella after eating at a cafe in the capital of Russia’s Far Eastern region of Buryatia.

The region’s Health Ministry told RFE/RL on January 13 that 57 people, including an unspecified number of children, are being treated and all are expected to recover in the next few days.

All of the patients reported eating at the Shulen Do cafe between January 8 and January 11.

After the outbreak, the cafe was inspected and closed down when numerous violations were allegedly uncovered.

CFIA

Ottawa, January 12, 2018 – The food recall warning issued on January 11, 2018 has been amended to correctly identify the affected product. The corrections for this product are marked by an asterisk (*) below.

Imperial Caviar & Seafood is recalling Imperial Caviar & Seafood / VIP Caviar Club brand Golden Whitefish Roe / Whitefish Roe from the marketplace because it may permit the growth of Clostridium botulinum. Consumers should not consume the recalled product described below.

Channel News Asia

Sports Mole

Borussia Dortmund reportedly face the prospect of being without a number of players for this weekend’s meeting against Wolfsburg due to a batch of dodgy kebabs.

Roman Burki, Roman Weidenfeller, Marc Bartra, Christian Pulisic, Omer Toprak, Jacob Bruun Larsen, Nuri Sahin, Dominik Reimann and Andre Schurrle are all understood to have fallen ill.

Dortmund’s players were given permission to tuck into chicken kebabs during their training camp in Marbella, but Bild claims that the nine aforementioned names are suffering with a stomach illness.

Wiley Online Library

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BarfBlog

As a new survey shows 95% of chefs cite customers getting sick as their top concern, a computer system developed by Columbia University with Health Department epidemiologists can detect foodborne illness and outbreaks in New York City restaurants based on keywords in Yelp reviews.

Using Yelp, 311, and reports from health care providers, the Health Department has identified and investigated approximately 28,000 complaints of suspected foodborne illness overall since 2012 and helped Health Department staff identify approximately 1,500 complaints of foodborne illness in NYC each year, for a total of 8,523 since July 2012.

Improvements to the computer system are the subject of a joint study published this week by the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. The Health Department and Columbia continue to expand the system to include other social media sources, such as Twitter, which was added to the system in November 2016. The computer system allows the Health Department to investigate incidents and outbreaks that might otherwise go undetected. New Yorkers are encouraged to call 311 to report any suspected foodborne illness.

Outbreak News Today 

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An old drug supercharged by University of Queensland researchers has emerged as a new antibiotic that could destroy some of the world’s most dangerous superbugs.

The supercharge technique , led by Dr Mark Blaskovich and Professor Matt Cooper from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience (IMB), potentially could revitalise other antibiotics.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria – superbugs – cause 700,000 deaths worldwide each year, and a UK government review has predicted this could rise to 10 million by 2050.

Dr Blaskovich said the old drug, vancomycin, was still widely used to treat extremely dangerous bacterial infections, but bacteria were becoming increasingly resistant to it.

Wiley Online Library

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Food Poison Journal 

The week started with 41 reports of ill diners, which led to the closure of El Toro in Tacoma’s Westgate neighborhood Monday.

The restaurant reopened Tuesday after sanitizing and taking other preventive measures.

By Wednesday, reports of ill customers had extended to its sister restaurant in University Place and that location also closed for sanitizing.

That location reopened Thursday.