The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture has warned consumers to discard raw milk purchased at a dairy in the Northeastern area of the state.
It says anyone who purchased raw milk from Gross Family Dairy in South Sterling, PA, located in Wayne County, should toss the product immediately due to the risk of Listeria.
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This time of year, most fridges are stocked up with food and drinks to share with family and friends. Let’s not make ourselves and our guests sick by getting things wrong when preparing and serving food.
As the weather warms up, so does the environment for micro-organisms in foods, potentially allowing them to multiply faster to hazardous levels. So put the drinks on ice and keep the fridge for the food.
But what are some of those food safety myths we’ve long come to believe that aren’t actually true?
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The Contes Pasta Company has recalled Metro Brand Irresistibles Gluten Free Cheese Ravioli for possible Salmonella contamination. This information was included in the December 23, 2015 Enforcement Report released by the FDA. This company recalled Conte’s Gluten Free Ravioli for possible Salmonella contamination in November 2015, but these products were not mentioned during that original recall.
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The Emirates National School in Sharjah, where 25 students recently suffered food poisoning, has been found not guilty of negligence.
According to a report issued by the public health department at Sharjah Municipality, the children became unwell after eating food they had bought during a charity bazaar.
Shaikha Shaza Al Mualla, director of the public health department at Sharjah Municipality, stressed that the school is not at fault as it doesn’t have a canteen to serve food. The students brought food from their houses. Some of them bought readymade food from restaurants and bakeries which caused the illness.
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ZANU PF has been rocked by fears of plots to poison officials in rival factions, as the succession conundrum within the ruling party turns nastier, NewsDay has learnt.
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Cruise Law News 
The accounts of the gastrointestinal outbreak on the P&O Pacific Eden portrayed in today’s Daily Mail are disgusting: overflowing toilets on a dirty ship with barfing, sick kids. Ill passengers, who paid handsomely for a family cruise vacation over Christmas, complain that not only did their complaints fall on the deaf ears of surly cruise staff members but the cruise captain blamed them for the outbreak in the first place.
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CBS News just reported that the Department of Justice has started an investigation into Blue Bell after their ice cream was linked to a deadly Listeria outbreak earlier this year that killed three people. Sources told CBS News that the Department of Justice is trying to determine what Blue Bell management knew about potentially deadly hazards in their plants, and when they knew it.
Blue Bell earlier this year was linked to a Listeria outbreak that resulted in three deaths. The company shutdown all three of its production facilities and recalled its regionally popular ice cream. It has only recently been returning to the market on a staged basis.
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Hundreds of workers at a Hong Kong-owned garment factory in Vietnam which makes lingerie for labels like Victoria’s Secret and Wacoal have been hospitalised with food-poisoning, state media reported Tuesday,
More than two-thirds of the 650 victims, mostly female workers at Regina Miracle International Vietnam Co. Ltd, were rushed on Monday to hospitals and clinics in Hai Phong City, 100 kilometres (60 miles) from Hanoi, Thanh Nien newspaper said.
Most of them suffered from dizziness, stomach pain and headaches after eating a lunch of rice, fish, meat, vegetables and yoghurt in the factory canteen.
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TIEN GIANG (VNS) — Cai Lay District’s general hospital in the southern province of Tien Giang has treated 47 workers suffering from food poisoning, hospital director Nguyen Van Nguu said.
The workers were employees of Ecoway Garment Co. Ltd, who were hospitalized on Tuesday afternoon after having lunch at the company’s canteen.
Of those treated, 37 workers were discharged from the hospital by the evening. The remaining workers are expected to be released from the hospital soon.
Workers complained of suffering from headaches and vomiting after eating a meal of Chinese braised pork, Chinese peas, and papaya soup.
The director said an initial examination of the workers confirmed their having symptoms of food poisoning, such as headache, stomach pain, vomiting and dizziness.
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Uoriki Fresh of New Jersey is recalling its Octopus Salad sold at one Wegmans Food Market store in that state because it tested positive for Listeria monocytogenes. The store is located in Manalapan, NJ. No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with the consumption of this product, but listeriosis, the illness caused by this bacteria, can take up to 70 days to appear.
The Octopus Salad was packaged in an 8 ounce plastic tray or sold by the pound in the seafood department with the label Wegmans Fresh Octopus Salad. It was sold from December 18 – 24, 2015, and labeled with “best before” dates ranging from December 21 – 24, 2015.
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