Category Archives: Food Illness

Canada – Gaspésien brand ham products recalled due to Listeria monocytogenes

Posted on April 5, 2018 by | Leave a comment

CFIA CIFA

Recall details

Ottawa, April 4, 2018 – Les Cuisines Gaspésiennes de Matane Ltée. is recalling Gaspésien brand ham products from the marketplace due to possible Listeria monocytogenes contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.

Recalled products

Brand Name Common Name Size Code(s) on Product UPC
Gaspésien Handmade Le P’tit Picnic – Boneless Smoked Pork Shoulder 1.5 kg BB/MA 2018-MA-20
BB/MA 2018-MA-24		 0 68553 10049 3
Gaspésien Handmade Old Fashioned Smoked Ham Variable BB/MA 2018-MA-18
BB/MA 2018-MA-24		 None
Gaspésien Le P’tit Classique Smoked Ham 750 g BB/MA 2018-MA-19
BB/MA 2018-MA-23
BB/MA 2018-MA-24		 0 68553 10042 4

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UK – British school kids hit by ‘mass food poisoning outbreak’ are on their way home from the US after ‘dropping like flies’ with a mystery illness – Norovius?

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The Sun

A GROUP of British school kids who fell ill during a trip to New York are now on their way home, according to reports.

City health officials say the group of 48 secondary school teens and three teachers from Crookhorn College in Waterlooville, near Portsmouth, were hospitalised shortly after arriving in Washington DC on Sunday.

The group were nauseous and vomiting when they checked into their hotel in the capital following a short stay in New York.

It was initially believed they had contracted chronic food poisoning when firefighters and dozens of medics were dispatched to the Harrington Hotel in DC.

However, it has since been suggested that norovirus could be behind the mass illness, NBC New York said.

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USA – More reports of illness from Norovirus at Vt. restaurant – 114 Cases

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WCAX Norovirus Food Safety kswfoodworld

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) It turns out twice as many people as first reported were sickened by that norovirus outbreak at the Windjammer Restaurant.

Health officials now say 114 cases can be tied to the South Burlington restaurant. They say 108 people got sick by eating there. The other six fell ill by coming into contact with someone who ate at the restaurant.

The Vermont Department of Health says it is hearing about more cases but they happened prior to the restaurant closing down last Friday.

The eatery reopened Sunday

 

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Norway – Over 20 people affected by outbreak of stomach virus at Hardangervidda – Norovirus?

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Norway Today

The Norwegian Tourist Association (DNT) reported on Sunday that cases of a contagious stomach virus have broken out at some cabins at Hardangervidda. A total of 23 people were affected, reported the association

“It’s a hard problem when our people at our cabins get sick. We do our best to take care of them,” said Henning Hoff Wikborg, CEO of DNT Oslo and Omegn in a press release on Sunday.

Those who are ill have been isolated in their own room, and have access to their own toilet, or have been transported and accommodated in hotels, according to Wikborg.

Hordaland Red Cross have taken 15 people from Hardangervidda, and the municipality in Eidfjord fears an outbreak of ‘norovirus’, wrote Bergens Tidende newspaper on Sunday. Symptoms of the stomach virus are nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhoea.

The Infectious Epidemic Centre in Eidfjord stated that those who are ill can be infectious for up to 48 hours after the last symptoms have disappeared and that those who are ill should not move on to other cabins the first day that they are healthy again.

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USA – More kratom capsules recalled for Salmonella amid outbreak

Posted on April 3, 2018 by | Leave a comment

Food Safety News

A Texas company is recalling various lots of multiple kratom supplements because samples have tested positive for Salmonella. The recall notice on the FDA’s website does not specify what strain of the pathogen inspectors found, but 87 people in 35 states are infected in an outbreak traced to kratom products.

Other companies have already recalled kratom products because they tested positive for Salmonella. Kratom is a plant consumed for its stimulant effects and as an opioid substitute. Kratom is also known as Thang, Kakuam, Thom, Ketom, and Biak.

In the most recent recall, Nutrizone of Houston, TX, seeks to pull back products sold to consumers in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Washington, Missouri, Florida, Mississippi, California and Texas.

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USA -Norovirus Suspected – 50 Ill Washington DC Tour Group

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NBC Washington 

 

More than 50 tourists were hospitalized for possible food poisoning Sunday night after arriving in Washington, D.C. from New York.

The D.C. health department said Monday they suspect members of the group have norovirus, which is highly contagious.

Firefighters were called to the Hotel Harrington in downtown D.C., blocks east of the White House, for a report of multiple people exhibiting symptoms of food poisoning. A large number of medics and police officers responded, temporarily blocking traffic.

Forty-eight teenagers and three adults were taken to hospitals. There were so many patients that the D.C. fire department had to use ambulance buses.

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USA – New York raw milk cheese company ordered to stop sales for food safety violations – Listeria monocytogenes

Posted on April 3, 2018 by | Leave a comment

FDA

A New York raw milk cheese company whose products were linked to a multi-state outbreak of Listeria monocytogenes (L. mono) has been ordered by a federal court not to manufacture its ready-to-eat aged soft, semi-soft and hard cheeses until it complies with food safety regulations.

On March 30, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York entered a consent decree of permanent injunction against Vulto Creamery LLC (Walton, N.Y.) and its owner and manager Johannes “Jos” H. Vulto. The defendants cannot prepare, process, manufacture, pack and/or hold FDA-regulated food products until they can ensure that L. mono is not present in their facility and their food.

 

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Canada – Salmonella Enteritidis Outbreak in Canada Linked to Poultry Updated, Frozen Raw Breaded Chicken Nuggets Suspected

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Food Poisoning Bulletin

The Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak in Canada that is linked to poultry has been updated to include a product that has been recalled: frozen raw breaded chicken nuggets. That product, Harvest Creek Chicken Nuggets, has been recalled from the marketplace.

Food Poisoning Bulletin

Harvest Creek brand Chicken Nuggets are being recalled in Canada for possible Salmonella contamination. There are illnesses associated with this product; the Public Health Agency is investigating. The product is made by Erie Meat Products Ltd.

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Ireland – Woman died from food poisoning due to Salmonella, inquest hears

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Extra IE

A woman who contracted food poisoning at a First Communion function died due to salmonella, an inquest heard.

Investigations into the outbreak are continuing, an inquest into the death of 55-year-old mother of one Sandra O’Brien heard.

Mrs O’Brien, from Rivervalley, Swords, Co Dublin died on May 21 last following the consumption of food prepared at O’Dwyers Pub, Strand Road, Portmarnock, Co Dublin.

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Turkey -112 university students in Bursa hospitalised amid food poisoning suspicion

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Hurriyet Daily News

A total of 112 university students in the northwestern Turkish province of Bursa were hospitalized on suspicion of food poisoning on March 28.

The students, who are staying at a dormitory linked to Uludağ University, fell sick after eating and were rushed to the university’s hospital suffering from nausea and vomiting.

An official from the provincial dormitories directorate said the general condition of the students is stable and they have started to be discharged from the hospital.

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