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Business Standard

About 50 villagers were taken ill after consuming food at a private event in Raigarh’s Gerwani village on Tuesday.

Out of them, 30 people were referred to a nearby hospital.

The cause of the food poisoning is still under investigation.

Food Safety News

K.J. Foods Inc. is recalling KJ brand sweet and sour chicken and sesame chicken because incorrect cooking instructions on the packages could result in food poisoning.

“These products may contain harmful bacteria that may not be eliminated by following the cooking instructions on the label. Consumers should not consume the recalled products,” according to the recall notice posted by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) Wednesday evening.The company shipped the recalled products to retailers in Ontario.

This company initiated the recall, according to the CFIA. No illnesses had been reported in association with the recalled products as of the posting of the notice. The CFIA is conducting a food safety investigation, which may lead to the recall of other products.

Food Safety News

New York officials again today warned the public to immediately dispose of unpasteurized Breese Hollow Dairy raw milk because of Listeria monocytogenes contamination. The state has issued Listeria alerts for the dairy’s raw milk at least three other times since 2007.

The David Phippen Farm, which operates under the Breese Hollow name, suspended operations on Feb. 2, when state agriculture officials informed the owners that a routine test sample showed preliminary positive results for Listeria monocytogenes.

Food Poisoning Bulletin

Food workers at a restaurant and senior living center in Erie County, New York have been diagnosed with hepatitis A, according to the Health Department. Anyone who consumed foods and/or beverages from Al-e-oops Restaurant at 5389 Genessee Street in Lancaster, New York, or from the Brookdale Senior Living Community at 6076 Main Street in Williamsville, New York may be at risk.

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CFIA

Ottawa, February 7, 2018 – K.J. Foods Inc. is recalling KJ brand Sweet & Sour Chicken with Rice and Sesame Chicken with Rice from the marketplace due to incorrect cooking instructions. These products may contain harmful bacteria that may not be eliminated by following the cooking instructions on the label. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.

Science Daily

Recent cases of listeria in food ranging from frozen vegetables to ice cream bars have reinforced the need for better methods of gauging the risk of foodborne pathogen contamination in processing plants. Researchers at the South Dakota State University Department of Dairy and Food Science are responding to the industry’s need for a more comprehensive approach in Listeria risk-assessment.

Food Poisoning Bulletin  

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The Journal of Food Protection has released a study looking at an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in Canada in 2013 that was linked to raw milk  cheese. In that outbreak, 29 people in five provinces were sickened with the outbreak strain of bacteria.

Five people were hospitalized in that outbreak, and one person died. Officials interviewed patients and found that twenty-six of twenty-seven people, or 90%, ate Gouda raw milk cheese that came from a dairy plant in British Columbia. All of the 22 patients who provided details about the cheese said that the Gouda cheese was made with raw milk.

Most raw milk cheese that has been aged is likely to not contain enough pathogenic bacteria to make someone sick. But this cheese had been aged for a minimum of 60 days. Officials found the outbreak strain of bacteria from the cheese, including “one core sample obtained from an intact cheese wheel 83 days after production.”