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RASFF Alert – E.coli – Live Oysters

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RASFF – too high count of Escherichia coli (490 MPN/100g) in live oysters from France in Italy

RASFF Alert – Histamine – Frozen Tuna Belly

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RASFF – histamine (151.7 mg/kg – ppm) in frozen tuna belly with skin from Vietnam in Portugal

RASFF Alerts -Norovirus – Live Oysters

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RASFF – norovirus in live oysters (Crassostrea gigas) from France in Italy

RASFF – foodborne outbreak suspected to be caused by norovirus in live oysters from France in Denmark

RASFF– withdrawal of live bivalve molluscs harvested in France because of possible contamination with norovirus in France

RASFF Alerts – Ochratoxin A – Preserved Plums – Dried Raisins – Organic Dried Figs

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RASFF – ochratoxin A (21 µg/kg – ppb) in preserved plums from China in the Netherlands

RASFF – ochratoxin A (21.78; 19.6 µg/kg – ppb) in dried raisins from Uzbekistan in Slovakia

RASFF – ochratoxin A (102.5 µg/kg – ppb) in organic dried figs from Turkey, packaged in Austria in Germany

RASFF Alerts – Listeria monocytogenes – Chilled Horse Salami – Chilled Raw Ham

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RASFF – Listeria monocytogenes (<10 CFU/g) in chilled horse salami from France in France

RASFF – Listeria monocytogenes (presence /25g) in chilled raw ham from Italy, packaged in Belgium in Belgium

RASFF Alerts – Animal Feed – Salmonella – Raw Petfoods – Dog Chews – Complementary Feed for Puppies- Horse Meal Mix

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RASFF – Salmonella enterica ser. Typhimurium (presence /25g) and too high count of Enterobacteriaceae (>30000 CFU/g) in raw petfood from the Netherlands in Belgium

RASFF – Salmonella (presence /25g) in dog chews (dried boar ears) from Poland in Poland

RASFF – Salmonella (presence /25g) in complementary feed for dog puppies from Germany in Germany

RASFF – Salmonella (presence /25g) in horse meal mix from Mexico in the Netherlands

RASFF- Mycotoxin -Ergot Alkaloids – Wheat

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RASFF -ergot (Claviceps purpurea) alkaloids (1400 mg/kg – ppm) in wheat from France in Belgium

 

USA – Lipari Foods Issues Voluntary Recall Expansion on Additional Sandwiches Due to Potential Contamination of Listeria Monocytogenes

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Lipari Foods is expanding its January 6, 2020 and January 13, 2020 recalls of Premo and Fresh Grab sandwiches to include all sandwiches with a Best By date of 2/6/20 and prior, due to potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes.

The products were distributed exclusively by Lipari Foods in Warren, Michigan to food service and retail stores throughout Alabama, Florida, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.

This recall was brought to our attention by JLM, who is further expanding their recent recall to include additional sandwiches with additional Best Buy dates due to potential contamination of Listeria monocytogenes. The company has ceased production at the producing facility while continuing to work in close collaboration with the FDA to further investigate the issue. No illnesses have been reported to date in relation to this recall.

Lipari Foods began shipping this product on December 20, 2019

Consumers who have purchased these recalled products should not consume them. Consumers should discard the products or return them to the point of purchase. Consumers with questions should call Customer Service at 800-729-3354, 8:15 am – 4:30 pm, EST, Monday through Friday.

Link to 1st Expanded Recall

Link to Original Recall

Research -Climate change could unlock new microbes and increase heat-related deaths

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The Journal of Clinical Investigation (JCI) recently published “Viewpoint” articles by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine professors who warn that global climate change is likely to unlock dangerous new microbes, as well as threaten humans’ ability to regulate body temperature.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Distinguished Professors Rexford Ahima, M.D., Ph.D., and Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D., M.S., along with William Dietz, M.D., Ph.D., director of the George Washington University’s Sumner M. Redstone Global Center for Prevention and Wellness, and Susan Pacheco, M.D., associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, authored journal articles relevant to their fields that detail how rising temperatures around the world pose dangerous threats to humanity.

Ahima, director of Johns Hopkins’ Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, wrote in the journal that “global warming threatens human thermoregulation and survival.”

 

Research -The microbes in your gut could predict whether you’re likely to die in the next 15 years

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The microbes in our guts have been linked to everything from arthritis to autism. Now, scientists say they can even tell us about our future health. Two new studies find that our “microbiome”—the mix of microbes in our gut—can reveal the presence of many diseases better than our own genes can—and can even anticipate our risk of dying within the next 15 years.

“I am hopeful and enthusiastic that the community will reach a point where we’re able to develop microbiome-based therapeutics and diagnostics,” says Samuel Minot, a microbiome researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center who was not involved in the research. “I think that this is within the realm of possibility.”

In the first study, researchers reviewed 47 studies looking at associations between the collective genomes of the gut microbes and 13 common diseases. These included schizophrenia, hypertension, and asthma—all of which are considered “complex” because they are caused by both environmental and genetic factors. They then compared these studies with 24 genome-wide association (GWA) studies, which correlate specific human genetic variants with diseases.

Overall, the genetic signature of gut microbes was 20% better at discriminating between a healthy and an ill person than a person’s own genes, the team reports in a paper posted this month on the preprint server bioRxiv.