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Eastern Mirror

IMPHAL, NOVEMBER 3: Around 200 people have reportedly fallen ill after consuming food during a traditional feast at Thanga, a village surrounded by Loktak Lake in Manipur’s Bishnupur district on Monday, reports reaching here have said.
Convenor Heisnam Kulachandra of Thanga Kendra Development Committee told the media here that the victims had common complaints such as acute stomach ache, fever, and loose motion.
They fell sick after attending a traditional feast that was organised in connection with the death anniversary of one Oinam Mangi’s late father at Thanga Khunjem Leikai under Moirang police station, on October 31, Kulachandra said.
Expert from the state’s food safety establishment collected samples of the food and ingredients that were understood to have been used in making the dishes for the feast, to ascertain the cause of the illness.

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UPI 

IRVINE, Calif., Nov. 3 (UPI) — Special proteins secreted by gut microbes may inhibit the bacteria known to cause salmonella, researchers at the University of California, Irvine suggest.

Salmonella is a disease characterized by intestinal inflammation, abdominal cramps, fever and diarrhea. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates the illness affects 1.2 million people in the United States. While few treatments are available, UCI researchers say their latest findings may lead the development of new approaches.

Eleven

At least 70 people suffered from food poisoning on November 4 after they ate milk noodles and vegetable sauce served at a wedding reception in Paukkaung Township, Bago Region.

Guests, including children and elderly people, fell sick hours after eating the contaminated food at the reception and were taken to hospital, their families said.

“My brother-in-law was the first one to suffer. And others started to show symptoms later. Some were unaffected,” said a family member.

Sixty people were treated at Paukkaung Township Public Hospital and the rest were at Pyat Township Public Hospital. Some already returned home.

“Food poisoning can be caused by bacteria or chemicals in food processing. It may have been caused by milk noodles and vegetable sauce. Chemicals can cause immediate food poisoning,” said Dr Han Nyunt of Paukkaung Public Hospital.

An official inspection is under way.

CDC

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Food Poisoning Bulletin

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The St. Clair County Health Department is investigating a Salmonella Newport outbreak that has sickened people who attended the Belleville Chili Cook-off on October 8, 2016. That event was held on October 7 and 8 in downtown Belleville, Illinois. More than 60 vendors attended the event. Those sickened live in multiple Illinois counties of St. Clair, Madison, and Lake, and one ill person lives in Missouri.

FDA

OLMA-XXI, Inc. of Brooklyn, NY is recalling Premium Norwegian Salmon Smoked, Sliced 8 oz (227g), Best by 02/23/2017 and Salmon, Turbot, Butterfish, Smoked, Sliced 8 oz (227g), Best by 10/20/2016, because it has the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

• Premium Norwegian Salmon Smoked, Sliced 8 oz (227g), UPC #856687004288, lot  #606002 – best by 02/23/2017
• Salmon, Turbot, Butterfish Smoked, Sliced 8 oz (227g), UPC #856687004448, lot #529910- best by 10/20/2016

The items were distributed by refrigerated trucks through retail stores and warehouses between December 2015 to October 2016 in NY, NJ, MD, PA, MA, CA VA, FL, CT, TX, IL, GA & WA.

Both items are packaged in a plastic vacuum packed bag.

No illnesses have been reported to date.

The recall was the result of a routine sampling program by the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Food Safety which revealed the presence of Listeria monocytogenes.

Consumers who have purchased the products are urged to return them to OLMA-XXI, Inc. for a full refund. Consumers with questions may contact the company at 718-675-0706, Monday – Friday, 8am – 6pm, ET.

FDA

Santa Barbara, CA – Out of an abundance of caution, McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams is undertaking a voluntary recall of selected, 16 oz. (pint size) packages of ice cream produced by a contract manufacturer because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.

The seven affected flavors, available only in pints, accounts for approximately 15% of the pint-packaged ice cream products carrying the McConnell’s brand label. All of the recalled products were manufactured and packaged in a facility owned by a contract manufacturer, Dr. Bob’s of Upland, LLC. No other products were affected. Ice cream produced at McConnell’s Santa Barbara facility are not included in the recall. No illnesses have been reported.

Listeria monocytogenes is an organism that can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, listeria infections can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) found samples positive for Listeria monocytogenes in the contract manufacturer’s facility and in finished product of another company’s brand, leading the contract manufacturer to recall all ice cream products it produced for McConnell’s and other ice cream companies this year.

Because this recall affects only McConnell’s products manufactured by the contract manufacturer facility, it is important that consumers carefully check the following flavor/code date combinations to be certain the correct products are removed.

The following flavors and “Best By” code dates are being recalled:

The recalled ice cream was distributed in AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, HI, IA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MS, NV, NH, NJ, NM, NY, NC, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA and WI to retail stores.

The product comes in a 16-ounce (pint size) paper package marked with “Best By” lot numbers listed above and printed in black on the bottom of the carton.

Consumers who have purchased any of the seven 16-ounce (pint size) packages of McConnell’s ice cream should not eat these products and are urged to return them to the place of purchase for a full refund.

Consumers with questions may contact the company recall hotline at 866-723-2454 between the hours of 8 am and 8 pm E.S.T., Monday through Friday. Customers may also contact McConnell’s by email at recall@mcconnells.com.

Food Safety News

Health officials are urging foodservice operators — including schools and restaurants across the country — to check their freezers for recalled strawberries from Egypt that may be contaminated with Hepatitis A.

The strawberries, produced and exported from Egypt by the International Company for Agricultural Production and Processing (ICAPP), are implicated in a nine-state Hepatitis A outbreak that has already sickened at least 134 people.

Although the frozen, imported strawberries were identified as the source of the outbreak in early August, the Egyptian company did not issue a recall until this past week, several days after the Food and Drug Administration imposed an Import Alert on the company’s strawberries citing Hepatitis A contamination. The recall includes all frozen strawberries ICAPP has sent to the U.S. since Jan. 1.