This week’s Conversation That Matter features Steve Burton, who after having a terrifying bout of food poisoning, is now working with food producers to help them ensure the food you eat is safe. When you go to the grocery store you can read the labels to see if it is gluten-free, non-GMO or organic but there is no information on the food safety protocols taken by the manufacturing company. This is episode 64 in a series of videos by Stu McNish.
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Cornell University will be home to a comprehensive center combining food safety research and training for New York growers and producers, offering a farm-to-fork bulwark against foodborne illness in compliance with new, stricter federal regulations.
The Institute for Food Safety at Cornell, announced Dec. 15 with a $2 million state grant, establishes a center unique in its comprehensive approach connecting training and applied research to check the rise of foodborne illness. The institute will harness Cornell’s existing strengths across food production systems in fruits, vegetables and dairy foods to help growers and processors comply with the demands of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Food Safety Modernization Act.
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Diners at Freddie’s in Adelaide Street, St Albans, have made three separate complaints to the district council’s environmental health department after eating at the restaurant last Friday lunchtime.
A member of a party of 10 who dined there on Friday lunchtime but did not wish to be named said one of their number had been hospitalised after the meal.
Those who had eaten the Christmas lunch had also been ill as had members of their group who had eaten other meals. She described the food as cold and served only at room temperature.
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Fifty-three people infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O26 have been reported from nine states. The majority of illnesses have been reported from Washington and Oregon during October 2015. The number of ill people reported from each state is as follows: California (3), Illinois (1), Maryland (1), Minnesota (2), New York (1), Ohio (3), Oregon (13), Pennsylvania (2), and Washington (27). Among people for whom information is available, illnesses started on dates ranging from October 19, 2015 to November 14, 2015. Ill people range in age from 1 year to 94, with a median age of 21. Fifty-nine percent of ill people are female. Twenty (38%) people reported being hospitalized. There have been no reports of hemolytic uremic syndrome and no deaths.
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Three sisters, aged between three and six, died allegedly due to food poisoning in Shahi area, health department officials said here today.
Hemlata (6), Madhubala (4) and Dharmeshwari (3) fell ill in Dod Alampur village on Friday night and their condition deteriorated, they said.
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PUNE: About 40 girl students in a school here were taken ill after they had their dinner in the hostel mess and were admitted to a hospital.
The girls, aged between 10 and 16, are students of ‘Sevasadan’. They complained of stomach ache and nausea after having their meal on Saturday night and were taken to hospital yesterday for treatment, school and hospital officials said Monday.
The school authorities said they had set up an inquiry to probe suspected food poisoning.
Police have collected samples of the food served to the students from the mess which contained beans and buttermilk curry, for analysis, inspector Hemant Bhat, who is probing the incident, said.
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The Swinomish Fish Company is initiating a voluntary recall of packages of both Traditional and Peppered flavors of NATIVE CATCH SALMON BACON with a “BEST BY” date of 1/23/16 and 3/16/16 distributed in the Western Washington and Florida areas. The Native Catch Salmon Bacon has the potential to be contaminated with Clostridium botulinum, a bacterium which can cause life-threatening illness or death. Consumers are warned to not use the product even if it does not look or smell spoiled.
Botulism, a potentially fatal form of food poisoning, can cause the following symptoms: general weakness, dizziness, double-vision and trouble with speaking or swallowing. Difficulty in breathing, weakness of other muscles, abdominal distension and constipation may also be common symptoms. People experiencing these problems should seek immediate medical attention.
No illnesses or reactions have been reported to date and no other Native Catch products are involved in this recall. The potential for contamination was noted after a routine Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) inspection discovered that the product had potentially been under processed.
The Native Catch Salmon Bacon products subject to this recall are:
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Animal contact is a potential transmission route for campylobacteriosis, and both domestic household pet and petting zoo exposures have been identified as potential sources of exposure. Research has typically focussed on the prevalence, concentration, and transmission of zoonoses from farm animals to humans, yet there are gaps in our understanding of these factors among animals in contact with the public who don’t live on or visit farms. This study aims to quantify, through a systematic review and meta-analysis, the prevalence and concentration of Campylobacter carriage in household pets and petting zoo animals. Four databases were accessed for the systematic review (PubMed, CAB direct, ProQuest, and Web of Science) for papers published in English from 1992–2012, and studies were included if they examined the animal population of interest, assessed prevalence or concentration with fecal, hair coat, oral, or urine exposure routes (although only articles that examined fecal routes were found), and if the research was based in Canada, USA, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. Studies were reviewed for qualitative synthesis and meta-analysis by two reviewers, compiled into a database, and relevant studies were used to create a weighted mean prevalence value. There were insufficient data to run a meta-analysis of concentration values, a noted study limitation. The mean prevalence of Campylobacter in petting zoo animals is 6.5% based on 7 studies, and in household pets the mean is 24.7% based on 34 studies. Our estimated concentration values were: 7.65×103cfu/g for petting zoo animals, and 2.9×105cfu/g for household pets. These results indicate that Campylobacter prevalence and concentration are lower in petting zoo animals compared with household pets and that both of these animal sources have a lower prevalence compared with farm animals that do not come into contact with the public. There is a lack of studies on Campylobacter in petting zoos and/or fair animals in Canada and abroad. Within this literature, knowledge gaps were identified, and include: a lack of concentration data reported in the literature for Campylobacter spp. in animal feces, a distinction between ill and diarrheic pets in the reported studies, noted differences in shedding and concentrations for various subtypes of Campylobacter, and consistent reporting between studies.
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A popular restaurant has closed as part of an investigation by health experts into an outbreak of salmonella poisoning.
The Grove Farm, near junction 21 of the M1, will be shut until after Christmas and all bookings over the festive period have been cancelled.
Public Health England said it first became aware of a problem at the venue in April after several people went to their GPs with stomach bugs and were found to have salmonella poisoning. It said some of those affected were diners at Grove Farm, but was unable to confirm how many.
Read more: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Gorse-Farm-Inn-shut-salmonella-outbreak/story-28390657-detail/story.html#ixzz3ux2vhPSv
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