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UK – Scottish Nursery Children Ill with Salmonella

Posted on October 13, 2013 by | 2 comments

Evening Telegraph

Several children who attend the same Dundee nursery have been hit by salmonella.

Eight children at Technotots Nursery in Brunel Road, Wester Gourdie Industrial Estate, were struck down with the bacteria last month.

NHS Tayside’s health protection team, environmental health officers and Health Protection Scotland have been called in to identify the source of exposure. As yet the investigation has not revealed what caused the salmonella infections but the owner of Technotots denies it originated in the nursery.

The children involved were not believed to have been taken seriously ill.

An NHS Tayside spokeswoman said none had to be hospitalised as a result of their condition.

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USA – Foster Farms Salmonella Chicken Over 300 Sickened

Posted on October 13, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Food Poisoning Bulletin

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now says that 31 people in 20 states and Puerto Rico have been infected with seven outbreak strains of Salmonella Heidelberg. But no recall. That is an increase of 39 from the last update on October 87, 2013.

Forty-two percent of ill persons have been hospitalized. No deaths have been reported. Seventy-three percent of patients are from California. Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback investigations by local, state, and federal officials indicate that consumption of Foster Farms chicken is the likely source of this outbreak.

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USA – Salmonella Issues – Mexican Restaurant – Fundraising Dinner – Raw Chicken

Posted on October 8, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Food Poisoning Bulletin

Many Americans are unaware that Salmonella poisoning causes real illness with real costs. In the U.S., direct medical cost associated with the treatment of Salmonella poisoning total about $1 million each day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

“We need to understand the true burden of Salmonella in our food,’’ said Fred Pritzker, a national food safety lawyer, who is publishes Food Poisoning Bulletin. “If we don’t raise awareness, we’ll never get the interventions we need to stop food poisoning.’’

Each year, about 1.5 million Americans are sickened by Salmonella poisoning.

Food Poisoning Bulletin

Public health officials in Illinois and Kentucky are investigating separate outbreaks of Salmonella associated with independent Mexican restaurants. Combined, the Hacienda Don Villo outbreak in Channahon, Illinois, and the Casa Mexicana outbreak in Madisonville, Kentucky, have sickened about 50 people. In Kentucky, one of the outbreak patients has died.

“Every outbreak of Salmonella carries the prospect of life-long illness for unsuspecting families,’’ said Fred Pritzker, founder of national food safety law firm Pritzker Olsen Attorneys. Pritzker said too many people downplay the burdens of Salmonella infection, which can trigger an assortment of long-term illness in some patients. In others, Salmonellosis resolves itself with no medical attention and the illness is over.

Food Poisoning Bulletin

Several news outlets are reporting that a Salmonella outbreak in Limestone County, Alabama is associated with an annual bean dinner fundraiser in Athens at the First Baptist Church Family Life Center, held by the Limestone County Foundation on Aging. At least six people have been confirmed ill with the pathogenic bacteria.

The dinner was held on Friday night, October 4, 2013. The hospital then saw “dozens of people” over the weekend with symptoms including diarrhea, vomiting, and nausea. The Alabama Department of Public health is now involved and will testing food that is left over from the meal.

Food Safety News

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) issued a public health alert Monday after an estimated 278 illnesses in 18 states caused by Salmonella Heidelberg were linked to consumption of raw chicken produced at three Foster Farms facilities in California.

FSIS said while the illnesses had not been been linked to a specific product or production period, raw chicken from the company’s California facilities bear one of the these establishment numbers inside a USDA mark of inspection or elsewhere on the package: “P6137,” “P6137A,” and “P7632.” The products were mainly distributed to retail outlets in California, Oregon and Washington state.

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Canada – CFIA – Chutney Powder – Salmonella

Posted on October 8, 2013 by | Leave a comment

CFIA

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Incan Global Corp., are warning the public not to consume the Nirapara brand Chutney Powder described in the link above because it may be contaminated with Salmonella.

This product has been sold at Kairali’s Thousand Spices in Edmonton, Alberta.

There have been no reported illnesses associated with the consumption of this product.

The importer, Incan Global Corp., Edmonton, Alberta, is voluntarily recalling the affected product from the marketplace.  The CFIA is monitoring the effectiveness of the recall.

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USA – FDA Recall- Bell Peppers – Salmonlla

Posted on October 8, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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Orange County Produce, LLC (“OC Produce”) is voluntarily working with the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) and California Department of Public Health (“CDPH”) to coordinate a recall of fresh red and green Bell Peppers for potential contamination with Salmonella. The FDA has advised that a random sample of OC Produce Bell peppers has tested positive for Salmonella.

Salmonella is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy persons infected with Salmonella often experience fever, diarrhea (which may be bloody), nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. In rare circumstances, infection with Salmonella can result in the organism getting into the bloodstream and producing more severe illnesses such as arterial infections (i.e., infected aneurysms), endocarditis and arthritis.

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RASFF Alerts – Salmonella -Turkey – Poultry

Posted on October 7, 2013 by | Leave a comment

RASFF -Salmonella spp. (presence /25g) in frozen boneless turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) from Brazil in Italy

RASFF-Salmonella in frozen chicken meat (Gallus gallus) from Brazil in Italy

RASFF -Salmonella (present /25g) in frozen poultry meat preparation from Brazil in the Netherlands

RASFF -Salmonella Agona in frozen turkey meat preparation from Brazil in the Netherlands

RASFF -Salmonella Agona (presence /25g) in frozen turkey meat preparation from Brazil in the Netherlands

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Europe – Reference Laboratory for Salmonella News Letter Oct 2013

Posted on October 4, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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The working programme of EURL-

Salmonella consists of the following activities (the duration of the activities are indicated between brackets):

1. Organisation of interlaboratory comparison studies (yearly);

2. Organisation of a workshop with the NRLs-

Salmonella (yearly);

3. Performance of supporting activities (depending on the subject: yearly or for a limited period);

4. Giving assistance to the Commission and ad hoc activities (yearly);

5. Communication (every 3 months and yearly);

6. Training (duration dependent on the subject);

7. Molecular typing of

Salmonella spp. (depending on the subject: yearly or for a limited period).

 

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Research – Salmonella – Listeria Harvest Contamination

Posted on October 4, 2013 by | Leave a comment

Applied and EnvironmentalSalmonella

Identification of management practices associated with preharvest pathogen contamination of produce fields is crucial to the development of effective Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs). A cross-sectional study was conducted to (i) determine management  practices associated with a Salmonella or Listeria monocytogenes positive field and (ii) quantify the frequency of these pathogens in irrigation and non-irrigation water sources. Over five weeks, 21 produce farms in New York State were visited. Field-level management practices were recorded for 263 fields, and 600 environmental samples (soil, drag swab, and water) were collected and analyzed for Salmonella and L. monocytogenes. Management practices were evaluated for their association with the presence of a pathogen-positive field. Salmonella and L. monocytogenes were detected in 6.1% and 17.5% of fields (n=263), and 11% and 30% of water samples (n=74), respectively. The majority of pathogen-positive water samples were from non-irrigation surface water sources. Multivariate analysis showed that manure application        within a year increased the odds of a Salmonella-positive field (odds ratio [OR] 16.7), while presence of a buffer zone had a protective effect (OR 0.1). Irrigation (within 3 days of sample collection, OR 6.0), reported wildlife observation (within 3 days of sample collection, OR 6.1), and soil cultivation (within 7 days of sample collection, OR 2.9) all increased the likelihood of an L. monocytogenes-positive field. Our findings provide new data that will assist growers with science-based evaluation of their current GAPs and implementation of preventive controls that reduce the risk of preharvest contamination.

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RASFF – Salmonella – Poultry Sausage – Bovine Halfe – Pate – Salad – Turkey Meat

Posted on September 30, 2013 by | Leave a comment

RASFF – Salmonella Montevideo (presence /25g) in frozen poultry sausages made with mechanically separated meat from France

RASFF –Salmonella spp. (positive /25g) in bovine halfe from Germany

RASFF-Salmonella spp. (presence /25g) in pate from France

RASFF -Salmonella spp. (presence /25g) in baby spinach and rucola salad with raw material from Italy, packaged in Sweden

RASFF -Salmonella spp. (presence /25g) in frozen turkey meat preparation from Brazil

 

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UK – FSA – Salmonella Gold Coast

Posted on September 27, 2013 by | Leave a comment

FSASalmonella

The Food Standards Agency, with Public Health England and local authorities, is investigating an outbreak of a particular strain of salmonella, called Salmonella Gold-coast, which is known to have caused 18 cases of illness.

The investigation has identified potential links between the outbreak and the consumption of whelks from independent shops, market stalls and mobile seafood vans, largely in the East Anglia area. As part of this investigation, Lynn Shellfish Ltd of King’s Lynn (formally known as Heiploeg or Heiploeg and Lynn Shrimpers) has issued a recall of all batches of frozen and chilled whelks.

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