KOZHIKODE: 43 students of Guruvayoorappan College were hospitalised due to food poisoning after they were served food in their college hostel.
Some of the students who had their exams on Wednesday were badly affected after they had the vegetable biryani served in the hostel.
The students were admitted to MIMS and other private hospitals in the city. The food security officials also inspected the college hostel on Thursday
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Twelve Haggen stores are voluntarily recalling some deli products that contain raw Taylor Farms brand yellow onions. Taylor Farms recalled that product for possible Salmonella contamination. No illnesses have been reported to date in connection with this recall.
The following products were sold from the deli from the full-service and/or self-service cases and packaged in clear containers. These products have sell-by dates from 3/15/18 up to and including 3/19/18: Old Fashion Potato Salad with UPC number that starts with 202932; Cashew Chicken Salad with UPC number that starts with 202928, and Turkey Curry Salad with UPC number that starts with: 202986.
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Ferhat Aras, 36, was prosecuted by Fenland District Council after he failed to improve food safety standards at Baltic International Food in Hill Street, Wisbech, following inspections by environmental health officers.
Aras, of Granby Street, Littleport, a director of the company, pleaded guilty to eight food safety and hygiene offences and was sentenced at Peterborough Crown Court.
Aras used to run a store in Littleport before moving his business to Wisbech in around 2016 when he was granted a licence to sell alcohol despite fierce objections from the police and trading standards.
Councillor Mike Cornwell, the council’s cabinet member for environmental health, said of the food offences: “These were serious issues which could have led to a food poisoning outbreak had enforcement action not been taken.
“It is disappointing the defendant did not take the support offered to him to avoid the council having to take legal action.
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A new multistate surveillance study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that the incidence of a multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogen capable of causing severe infections and spreading easily is low and mainly confined to healthcare facilities. And CDC officials would like to keep it that way.
In a paper today in Emerging Infectious Diseases, a team of researchers from the CDC and public health departments across the country report that the overall annual incidence of carbapenem-nonsusceptible Acinetobacter baumannii is 1.2 cases per 100,000 persons, and that nearly all the cases were healthcare-associated. The incidence rate is lower than those reported for other invasive, healthcare-associated bacterial pathogens, including carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and Clostridium difficile.
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The World Health Organization has reached out to 16 African nations to provide support for preparedness and response to a listeriosis outbreak that started in South Africa in 2017 but is now threatening other countries on the continent.Nearly 200 South Africans have died since January 2017 as a result of contaminated ready-to-eat meat products that are widely consumed in South Africa and may also have been exported to two West African countries and 14 members of the South African Development Community (SADC).[1]
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Radagast Pet Food, Inc. of Portland, OR is recalling one lot of Free-Range Chicken and one lot of Free-Range Turkey Recipe because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. Listeria monocytogenes can affect animals eating the products and there is risk to humans from handling contaminated pet products, especially if they have not thoroughly washed their hands after having contact with the products or any surfaces exposed to these products.
This recall includes only the two lots listed below.
Listeria monocytogenes is pathogenic to humans. Healthy people exposed to Listeria monocytogenes should monitor themselves for some or all of the following symptoms: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramping, fever. Consumers exhibiting these signs after having contact with this product should contact their healthcare providers.
Listeria monocytogenes can affect animals eating the product. Animals exposed to Listeria monocytogenes can display symptoms such as: diarrhea, fever, muscular or respiratory signs and anorexia. If your pet has consumed the recalled product and has these symptoms, please contact your veterinarian.
No pet or human illnesses have been reported.
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In Bridgeview, IL, SMI Holdings Inc., doing business as Stampede Meat, has recalled approximately 484,800 pounds of beef products that may be contaminated with Salmonella, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS).
The raw beef products were incorporated into a non-meat ingredient, Au Jus Seasoning, which tested positive for the presence of Salmonella. The frozen raw beef top sirloin steak items were produced on various dates from Feb. 19, 2018 through March 14, 2018.
The CDC is working with several states to investigate an outbreak of Salmonella illnesses, an agency spokesperson said Monday evening. Earlier in the day the FDA posted a recall notice from Natural Grocers for its branded “Coconut Smiles Organic” because of Salmonella contamination.Six illnesses have been reported in connection with the Natural Grocers coconut, according to the company’s recall notice. The Lakewood, CO, company and the Food and Drug Administration both found Salmonella in packages of the coconut
Natural Grocers distributed the implicated “Coconut Smiles Organic” to 145 stores in 19 states.
Maputo — The Mozambican government’s National Inspectorate of Economic Activities (INAE) last week incinerated 55 tonnes of assorted types of processed meat from South Africa, valued at about 13 million meticais (about 210,000 US dollars)
INAE general inspector Acácio Foia confirmed the incineration at a Maputo press conference on Monday.
The products are chicken derivatives, such as polony, produced by the companies Enterprise and Rainbow Chicken, following an outbreak of listeriosis in South Africa.
The South African Health Ministry traced the outbreak to an Enterprise food facility in Polokwane, the capital of Limpopo province. The bacterium listeria, which causes the disease, has also been traced to a Rainbow Chicken facility in Free State province.
According to Acácio, the products were removed from the formal and informal market but there are still 40 tonnes of these processed meats still to be incinerated.
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Namibia health officials are reporting a confirmed case of Listeriosis in a 41-year-old man from Tsumeb town in Oshikoto Region.
The patient with a known chronic co-morbidity, was admitted to a private hospital in Windhoek on 5 March 2018. He had travelled from Tsumeb to Windhoek on 4 March 2018. On 12 March 2018, abdominal fluid bacterial culture isolated Listeria monocytogenes. The patient remains admitted in a stable clinical condition.
Preliminary investigations reportedly indicated that the patient consumed meat products (Viennas) purchased from a local butchery in Tsumeb two weeks prior to onset of illness.
