Category Archives: Food Illness

UK – Former pub owner fined £14,000 after nearly 200 people suffer food poisoning on Mother’s Day

Posted on January 14, 2019 by | Leave a comment

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The former owner of a North Somerset pub has been fined £14,000 after nearly 200 people fell ill after eating at his venue on Mother’s Day.

Hundreds of people ate a meal at The Old Farmhouse in Nailsea on March 11, 2018, but 186 fell ill with food poisoning after their visit.

The case, brought to North Somerset Magistrates’ Court on Friday (January 11), revealed that tests on the samples taken from the pub showed that both the beef and lamb contained the bacteria Clostridium perfringens.

In a letter to the court Mr Montgomery said: “I am truly sorry for the harm caused to our patrons.”

Mr Montogomery was fined £4,000 for failing to ensure the relevant food safety documentation was in place.

He was fined a further £10,000 for placing unsafe food on the market.

He was also ordered to pay the £4,765 costs of the investigation and a £170 victim surcharge.

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USA – Royal Caribbean Norovirus Outbreak Sickens 475 Passengers

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Norovirus outbreaks increase during the winter months because more people are together indoors. But some venues, such as nursing homes, schools, and cruise ships, can be struck by this virus at any time. A Norovirus outbreak on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship has sickened 475 passengers.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 129,678 passengers were sickened on cruise ships from 2008 to 2014. That seems like a large number, but just 10% of those illnesses were norovirus. And the number of people on those cruses was 74,000,000

 

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USA – CDC Reports Romaine Lettuce Outbreak Over – E.coli

Posted on January 11, 2019 by | Leave a comment

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Although FDA is continuing its investigation into the source of the E.coli outbreak involving romaine lettuce grown in California, the CDC has declared the outbreak over. Contaminated romaine that caused illnesses should no longer be available, FDA stated in an outbreak update. Consumers will not need to avoid romaine lettuce, and retailers and restaurants do not need to avoid selling or serving the product, according to the agency. Suppliers and distributors need not avoid shipping or selling any romaine that is on the market either.

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RASFF Alert- STEC E.coli – Raw Sausage

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RASFF -shigatoxin-producing Escherichia coli in raw sausage from Austria in Austria

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Cambodia – Two South Korean students die of suspected food poisoning

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Khmer Times

Medical doctors are seeking the cause of the death of two South Korean female students who died on Wednesday afternoon and Thursday morning over suspected food and water poisoning in Phnom Penh.

The victims in their 20 and 21 were among the 16 volunteer students and three professors from Konyang University who built facilities or products for rural people from Monday to January 19, according to an official at the South Korean embassy.

The official said that the victims and two more other friends were eating pizzas and drink beers at a foreign-owned restaurant in front of the hotel after having their dinner on Monday night.

“Except for the two, the students are known to have no health problems. The students explained that they had immunized against malaria, typhoid and tetanus before going to Cambodia,” the official said.

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USA- Oasis of the Seas: 277 sickened on cruise, voyage cut short – Norovirus?

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Health officials are reporting some 277 passengers and crew onboard Royal Caribbean’s vessel, Oasis of the Seas, have fell ill with vomiting being the predominant symptom.

According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 266 of 6,285 (4.23%) passengers and 11 of 2,169 (0.51%) crew were sickened.

While media reports state the cause of the outbreak as Norovirus, CDC officials report the causative agent as being “unknown” as of Jan. 10.

The ship left left Port Canaveral on a seven-day Western Caribbean cruise on Sunday. The ship will return to Port Canaveral on Saturday, one day ahead of schedule.

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Bengal – Bengal food poisoning scare: Primary school students hospitalised after eating mid-day meal

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Times Now News

30 students of a primary school in Burdwan district of West Bengal were hospitalized after consuming mid-day meals. The showed symptoms of nausea, vomiting and mild fever and are now recovering in a government hospital.

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Information – The Contagion® Outbreak Monitor

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Contagion Live

I came across this which is quite an interesting tool for looking at outbreaks.

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The Contagion® Outbreak Monitor provides details on the number of confirmed cases, deaths, and recent website articles on infectious disease outbreaks.
Use the Contagion® Outbreak Monitor to learn about infectious disease outbreaks in your geographical region and manipulate the map to find out the latest information on global outbreaks. Click on “Trends” to learn more about trends in the number of cases and deaths.

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Norway – 13 sick: Some had eaten rakfish: — more affected by mysterious listeria outbreaks in eastern Norway

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News Beezer reports that shortly before Christmas, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health announced that there had been six reports of a new outbreak of Listeriosis. Today it was known that this number has increased significantly and that the affected area is also larger than previously known. So far, five patients have detected bacteria with a similar DNA profile.

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Canada -Raw milk believed to be source of E. coli contamination in cheese: BCCDC

Posted on January 9, 2019 by | Leave a comment

Cowichan Valley Citizen

The BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC) believes raw milk was the likely source of an E. coli contamination in Little Qualicum Cheeseworks’ Qualicum Spice cheese.

On Nov. 13, five people in B.C. became sick after consuming products from Little Qualicum Cheeseworks, prompting a warning from the BCCDC.

For several months, the BC Centre of Disease Control and Vancouver Island Health Authority worked with Little Qualicum Cheeseworks, going through the cheese-making process with the company, checking procedures, ingredient and equipment, said Sion Shyng, food safety specialist with the BCCDC.

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