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The Straits Times

SINGAPORE – Good food can be passed off as food worth eating – only if it is safe to consume.

The current case involves Pow Sing restaurant, which, as of July 12, had 29 verified cases of gastroenteritis and investigations are currently ongoing.

This is just the latest case of a food establishment being suspended after outbreaks of food poisoning among its diners.

http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/food/feeling-ill-after-meals-5-recent-cases-of-food-poisoning-at-eateries

Food Safety News

Eleven people who attended a July 3 event in Seattle and ate pork provided by Kapowsin Meats became sick and health officials say they have laboratory evidence linking them to a Salmonella outbreak in 2015 that sickened almost 200 people and was traced to pork from Kapowsin Meats.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2016/07/seattle-salmonella-victims-ate-pork-from-kapowsin-meats/#.V5CF6005DsY

Food Poisoning Journal

Bar-S Foods Company, an Altus, Okla. establishment, is recalling approximately 372,684 pounds of chicken and pork hot dog and corn dog products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The ready-to-eat, chicken and pork hot dog and corn dog items were produced on July 10, 11, 12, and 13, 2016

http://www.foodpoisonjournal.com/food-poisoning-information/listeria-recall-bar-s-foods-company/#.V5CFUU05DsY

mBiosphere

The anaerobic, Gram-positive Clostridium difficile is a big problem. It causes rampant diarrhea and tissue necrosis, with more than 150,000 annual cases in the United States alone. Many of the disease manifestations of C. difficile are mediated by two exotoxins that C. difficile produces: TcdA and TcdB. Researchers have long been working at toxin inhibition as an approach to disarm C. difficile and improve treatment, and new research in Clinical and Vaccine Immunology shows promise in blocking toxin activity in vivo.

http://mbioblog.asm.org/mbiosphere/2016/07/disarming-a-pathogens-ability-to-cause-disease.html

FDA

Agave Dream of Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA is recalling 389 cases Cappuccino Ice Cream 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.

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm512109.htm

FSA

http://www.food.gov.uk/news-updates/news/2016/15327/lytham-foods-recalls-freshbite-wraps

Food Poisoning Bulletin

At least 11 support team members of the California delegation at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland have been stricken with a foodborne illness that appears to be norovirus, according to the Erie County Health Department.  Two of them are pregnant and required hospitalization, according to local news reports.

The delegation is staying at the Kalahari Resorts in Sandusky, Ohio about an hour away from the convention. Those sickened have been asked to stay put to contain the spread of illness.

https://foodpoisoningbulletin.com/2016/norovirus-strikes-republican-national-convention/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FoodPoisoningBulletin+%28Food+Poisoning+Bulletin%29

FSIS

Bar-S Foods Company, an Altus, Okla. establishment, is recalling approximately 372,684 pounds of chicken and pork hot dog and corn dog products that may be adulterated with Listeria monocytogenes, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The ready-to-eat, chicken and pork hot dog and corn dog items were produced on July 10, 11, 12, and 13, 2016.

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/FSIS-Content/internet/main/topics/recalls-and-public-health-alerts/recall-case-archive/archive/2016/recall-061-2016-release

Daily Mail

Hospitals are risking patients’ lives by serving them sandwiches contaminated with a lethal bug, say experts in a shocking report.

The danger comes in pre-packed sandwiches, a popular menu option with many patients – and one that NHS managers like because they are cheap and easy to serve.

But food safety advisers are warning that they can contain the deadly bug listeria, which can trigger meningitis. It also kills up to 30 per cent of those it infects.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3693951/NHS-hospital-sandwiches-kill-scientists-blames-patients-food-cases-lethal-listeria-infection.html

Daily Mail

Children are among scores of victims taken ill after eating rocket leaves infected with a deadly strain of E.coli in an outbreak that has already claimed two lives, it emerged last night.

More than 150 people across Britain have been affected by the bug, which is being linked with rocket imported from Mediterranean countries.

The outbreak has now left more than 60 patients needing hospital treatment.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-3693957/Children-fall-victim-deadly-E-coli-rocket-leaves-Two-people-killed-150-Britons-affected-bug.html

BBC

People in the UK have been advised to thoroughly wash mixed salad leaves amid concern that this food could be the source of a recent E. coli outbreak. The bug has affected more than 150 people and killed two.

Public Health England advises people to remove any loose soil before storing vegetables, and wash all vegetables and salads thoroughly that will be eaten raw unless they have been pre-prepared and are specifically labelled “ready to eat”.

Health officials admit that washing foods is not 100% fail-safe, but it gives people the best chance against infection.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36822962

Science Direct – Cost, quality, and safety: A nonlinear programming approach to optimize the temperature during supply chain of leafy greens

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002364381630370X