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CFIA 

Future Seafoods Inc. is recalling oysters from the marketplace due to possible Salmonella contamination. Consumers should not consume the recalled product described below.

Barf Blog

More than 500 trainees of National Defence Academy in Khadakwasla were admitted to hospital yesterday for food poisoning.

Due to lack of ambulance service, the trainees were taken to hospital by officers’ personal vehicles, and trucks. A local media house reported, since the hospital was not spacious enough to accommodate 700 people, some trainees were made to sleep on hospital floors also.

Doctors suspect it was egg curry that poisoned the trainees since those who did not consume egg curry reported to be fine.

Outbreak News Today

The number of Vibrio vulnificus cases in Florida has risen to 30 for the year with additional cases reported from Hillsborough and Bay counties, health officials report.

Hillsborough County, in west-central Florida now has 5 cases, while Bay County in the panhandle has now recorded 3 cases.

The state death toll due to the bacterial infection remains at 11.

In 2014, Florida reported 32 cases of V. vulnificus with 7 deaths.

USDA 

A U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist in Pennsylvania has developed a sanitizing wash that could reduce the number of foodborne illnesses caused each year by E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria from fresh-cut produce.

Dike Ukuku, a food technologist at the ARS Food Safety and Intervention Technologies Research Unit in Wyndmoor, Pa., has developed a solution that works better than water, chlorinated water, or hydrogen peroxide at ridding surface bacteria from produce. The solution rids cantaloupes, honeydew melons, and other produce of bacteria that migrate on to cut pieces.

wtop 

Fig & Olive restaurant in City Center closed Thursday night amid concerns following an outbreak that hospitalized four people with salmonella-like symptoms.

The D.C. Department of Health is trying to determine the source of the outbreak. Environmental and food samples have been collected.

Three of those cases occurred over Labor Day weekend, as people were admitted to Sibley Memorial Hospital.

MDH 

State health and agriculture officials are investigating an outbreak of salmonellosis associated with eating at Chipotle restaurants in Minnesota.

Forty-five (45) cases of Salmonella Newport infection have been reported to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) since Wednesday, Sept. 2. Since many cases of salmonellosis do not seek health care and get tested, the number of ill people that are part of this outbreak is likely to be larger than the identified number of cases. Consequently, health officials want to bring this outbreak to the attention of people who have become ill with symptoms of salmonellosis but who have not yet consulted a health care provider. These people should mention this outbreak to their health care provider should they consult one.

DHMH 

The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) is warning consumers not to eat products made by Picnic Gourmet Spreads because these products might be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The potentially contaminated products include Red Pepper Feta Cheese Spread, Moroccan Cilantro Cheese Spread, Tandoori Garlic Cheese Spread, Herbed Goat Cheese, Parmesan Cheese Spread, and Chipotle Sage Cheese Spread. These products were distributed to retail stores in Maryland and other states including Kentucky, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

The contamination was discovered after routine retail sampling by the DHMH Office of Food Protection, and subsequent analysis by the DHMH Laboratories Administration revealed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes in the product.

PHAC

The Public Health Agency of Canada is collaborating with provincial public health partners, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans and Health Canada to investigate 81 Canadian cases of Vibrio parahaemolyticus infections in British Columbia, Alberta,  Saskatchewan and Ontario linked to raw shellfish. The majority of the illnesses have been linked to eating raw oysters.

Daily Post

Two young children are recovering at home after being tested for the potentially deadly E.coli bug.

Public Health Wales and Conwy County Borough Council say both children, who visited childcare settings in the region, have been tested for the infection.

The affected childcare providers have closed voluntarily, and relevant children and staff are being screened for the infection as a precaution to prevent the risk of spread in these settings.

Public Health Wales say the source of infection is believed to be outside of the childcare settings.

The Advertiser

A MOTHER of two is among at least 11 Burnside Hospital patients struck down with salmonella caused by imported fish, and authorities are investigating a second source of the potentially deadly infection.

The woman, who wants to remain anonymous, said she “felt like death” and “like I was going to die”.

Testing confirmed she had contracted the infection from eating fish in the hospital.