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RASFF – too high count of Enterobacteriaceae (up to 1600 CFU/g) in processed animal protein cat III from Lithuania in Italy

RASFF – Salmonella (presence /25g) in processed animal protein cat 3 from Poland it Italy

Food Safety News

Two new confirmed cases of Hepatitis A were recorded in Hawaii in the past week, bringing the total number of people sickened to 291. And, another restaurant worker has been identified as a victim, raising concerns about the possibility of additional exposures.

Food Poisoning Journal

CDC collaborated with public health and regulatory officials in several states and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS)  to investigate a multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 (STEC O157:H7) infections.

Eleven people infected with the outbreak strain of STEC O157:H7 were reported from five states. A list of the states and the number of cases in each can be found on the Case Count Map page.

The Sun Daily

BUKIT MERTAJAM: A total of 72 students of SM Sains Tun Syed Sheh Shahabudin here were rushed to the Bukit Mertajam Hospital on Tuesday night for suspected food poisoning.

Penang Health Department director Datuk Dr M. Sukumar said 70 of them received outpatient treatment while two were warded for fever.

He said the 41 male and 31 female students complained of stomachache and suffered from vomiting after taking their dinner.

The Indian Express

More than 300 children have been struck with food poisoning in China, all are from the Hongwen Primary School in Zhengding Province – the incident is being investigated.

Fox News

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia –  Officials say more than 80 schoolchildren in Cambodia have fallen ill after eating contaminated food distributed by a local volunteer group.

The primary school students in the southern province of Takeo became sick Tuesday after eating fried rice, sausage and milk.

Science Daily

Information could be the key to winning the race against antibiotic resistance. If we lose, a UK-funded analysis predicts a frightening future where drug resistant bacterial infections kill more people worldwide than cancer.

Princeton EDU 

Princeton researchers have for the first time revealed the mechanics of how bacteria build up slimy masses, called biofilms, cell by cell. When encased in biofilms in the human body, bacteria are a thousand times less susceptible to antibiotics, making certain infections, such as pneumonia, difficult to treat and potentially lethal.

In a study published Sept. 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team at Princeton tracked a single bacterial cell as it grew into a mature biofilm of 10,000 cells with an ordered architecture. The findings should help scientists learn more about bacterial behavior and open up new ways of attacking biofilms with drugs.

Food Poisoning Bulletin 

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries have announced that the shellfish beds in the town of Wellfleet on Cape Cod have been closed because of a large norovirus outbreak believed linked to the consumption of shellfish in that area. At least 75 suspect cases of norovirus were reported over a two day time period last week, mostly associated with eating raw shellfish at weddings and restaurants in the Outer Cape Cod area.