Monthly Archives: January 2018

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Food Safety News  

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Hom/Ade Foods Inc. is the latest food company to recall biscuits because of potential Listeria contamination. All of its Mary B’s brand biscuits with dates through Sept 23 are now recalled.

Recalls in the past month included biscuits under brands including Food Lion, SEG and Southern Home, and T. Marzetti Company’s Marshalls brand.

As with the other recalls, Hom/Ade Foods reported the potential Listeria monocytogenes contamination involved another company in the food supply chain.

“The problem was discovered in a product sampling conducted by an outside co-packer, who manufactured the product,” according to the recall.

Food Poisoning Journal

Price Chopper and Market 32 Supermarkets are issuing a voluntary recall by AFC Sushi on all varieties of packaged sushi made with tuna that were sold at delis within their stores.The companies say the manufacturer is recalling the products because of possible listeria contamination of the tuna.

“To date, affected sushi has only been found at the Price Chopper stories in Edwardsville, PA (180 Westside Mall, Edwardsville, PA) and Rotterdam, NY (1879 Altamont Avenue, Rotterdam, NY) but, as a precaution, the sushi made with tuna manufactured by AFC Sushi has been recalled from all of the chain’s stores,” the companies said in a release.

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A Texan woman has died after contracting a flesh-eating bacteria after eating raw oysters on a trip to the the Louisiana coast.

Jeanette LeBlanc died after a three-week battle with vibriosis, an illness typically caused by eating raw seafood, CBS reported. 

After shucking and eating roughly two dozen raw oysters with her wife and a friend, LeBlanc began having respiratory distress and a rash, which she and her wife initially assumed were signs of an allergic reaction. But, when she went to the hospital, doctors said she had been infected by Vibrio bacteria.

“It’s a flesh-eating bacteria,” her wife, Vicki Bergquist, told local news station KLFY. “She had severe wounds on her legs from that bacteria.”

The CDC estimates that vibriosis causes 80,000 illnesses each year in the US, most caused by consuming contaminated food. While most people recover from the infection, one variant — the Vibrio vulnificus infection — is often deadly. One in four infected people die, often within just a day or two of becoming ill.

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Outbreak News Today

Health officials in the Bio Bio Region of Chile are reporting a large outbreak of Salmonella that has affected scores of people, according to local media (computer translated). The outbreak has been linked to homemade mayonnaise from the local “Dulce y Salado” in the city of Lota.

The Seremi de Salud Bío Bío confirmed 174 cases of salmonella making it the largest outbreak of the last 4 years nationwide and the largest recorded in the Bío Bío Region.

The outbreak has affected people ages 1 to 91 and 25 people required hospitalization for their illness.

Health officials are investigating whether raw egg was the source of the salmonella and the strain is being identified. In addition, since the local “Dulce y Salado” was closed last week, they don’t expect any significant rise in cases.

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HYDERABAD: More than 20 people, 10 of whom were members of the same family, fell sick due to food poisoning after consuming the popular roadside snack in Hyderabad – Shawarma, at a restaurant named Bhukkad located at Yapral.

Charlie, a resident of Yapral, said, “On Friday night many of my family members ate shawarma bought from Bhukkad. Soon the next day all of them started experiencing nausea and vomiting. About 5 of them got admitted in hospital as they got very weak and had to be administered glucose.”

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Salt Lake County health officials announced that customers of the 7-Eleven convenience store at 2666 West 7800 South in West Jordan who used the restroom at the store or consumed certain items on specific dates should contact the health department for information about receiving an injection to prevent hepatitis A. This possible exposure affects only this single 7-Eleven location.

Poultry Med 

Almost half of all campylobacter infections in Denmark are caused by consumption of domestic chicken meat. Campylobacter is the leading cause of foodborne infections in Denmark. A total of 4,677 campylobacter infections were registered in 2016, but these are only the tip of the iceberg: estimates suggest that for every registered case of campylobacter, another 12 cases go unreported.
Researchers from the National Food Institute have produced a report for the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration, which show what proportion of cases acquired in Denmark can be attributed to eight different food and environmental sources.
Consumption of domestic chicken meat continues to be the most important source accounting for 46% of campylobacter infections acquired in Denmark, followed by cattle (beef, milk or direct contact), which accounts for 19% of cases and consumption of imported chicken meat (9%). Contact with dogs and exposure to contaminated seawater each account for approximately 4% of infections.