The Texas State Health Department states that there are 64 confirmed cases of Salmonella food poisoning in Dalhart, most from the X10 Texas Wood Fired Grill restaurant (otherwise known as 10 in Texas). Twelve additional cases have been reported since the restaurant voluntarily closed after illnesses were reported.
It has been reported that a tuna cannery in Thailand is being investigated by Australian Government authorities after seven people who ate canned tuna at an inner Sydney cafe were stuck down with suspected scombroid poisoning.
Scombroid poisoning occurs where fish like tuna have not been subject to satisfactory temperature control, such as correct chilling, and levels of histamine increase causing food poisoning.
Only one batch of tuna implicated
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E. coli O26 has been discovered in a raw milk cheese with the brand name Roquefort. This is according to the Netherlands Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA) based on information received from the Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF).
The cheese in question has the brand name Roquefort, barcode EE1632, identification FR 120203 022CE and the expiration date May 8th, 2015. The cheese was sold in various supermarkets in 100 grams units.
Consumers who have already purchased the cheese are urgently advised to throw it away immediately. If in doubt, more information can be obtained from the store where the cheese was purchased.
Food poisoning is an illness caused by eating contaminated food. Most people get better without the need for treatment.
In most cases, food that causes food poisoning is contaminated by bacteria, such as salmonella or Escherichia coli (E. coli), or a virus, such as the norovirus.
The symptoms of food poisoning usually begin 1-3 days after eating contaminated food. They include:
Some toxins can cause food poisoning within a much shorter time. In these cases, vomiting is the main symptom.
Foods particularly susceptible to contamination if not handled, stored or cooked properly include:
Food can become contaminated at any stage during production, processing or cooking. For example, food poisoning can be caused by:
Read more about the causes of food poisoning.
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A Salmonella outbreak linked to Wonton Foods bean sprouts sickened 115 people in 12 states in 2014. The outbreak, which was declared over in January 2015, was traced back to the Wonton Foods facility. Traceback investigations found that there were five clusters of illnesses initially, in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Vermont, but the outbreak spread as time went on.
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IF BRISBANE wants to be the world-class city it aspires to be, put aside obsessions with TV cooking shows, with political inanities, with imports and focus on what makes people — such as 175 delegates at a school principals’ conference — sick.
After decades of food safety research, I can conclude anyone who serves, prepares or handles food, in a restaurant, nursing home, day care centre, supermarket or local market needs some basic food safety training. And the results of restaurant and other food service inspections must be made public and mandatory.
THE Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre will continue to source food from the same suppliers, but has suspended the use of poultry and eggs, after the second-worst outbreak of salmonella poisoning in Queensland’s history.
Despite the indication of potential food poisoning, poultry and eggs weren’t struck off the menu until late yesterday.
Up to six events were held at the centre yesterday.
Public health authorities are concerned after two new cases of salmonella emerged at aged care facilities in the Illawarra this week, bringing the total number of patients to 31.
Last week authorities were hopeful the outbreak of the food-borne illness at 10 facilities in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven, south-eastern Sydney and the ACT had been contained.
Two elderly residents have died and 16 residents have been hospitalised after contracting a rare strain of salmonella, with the onset of the first case on January 21.
An E. coli outbreak has sickened at least six children in Lodi, California. The children all attend the same elementary school, but the principal says health officials have ruled out the school as the source of the outbreak.
Two of the children in the same class have confirmed cases of E.coli poisoning , one of them, a second grader, was hospitalized. The school has done a thorough cleaning of affected classrooms and health investigators say no E.coli bacteria was found in the cafeteria.
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A tinned tuna product linked to four cases of food poisoning has been removed from the market, according to the NSW Food Authority.
Earlier this week, four people reported symptoms of scombroid, or histamine poisoning soon after consuming a takeaway tuna salad from Soul Origin, a cafe located at Town Hall station in Sydney’s CBD. Symptoms include skin rashes, dizziness, tingling in the mouth and nausea.
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Fairway “Like No Other Market” of New York is recalling raw hazelnuts (filberts) because they may be contaminated with Salmonella bacteria. No illnesses have been reported to date.
The recalled product, Fairway brand Raw Hazelnuts (Filberts) was distributed to Fairway stores in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. It was also sold to the public through home delivery programs by Google and Instacart. It is packaged in clear, plastic cello bags of varying weights. Each package weighs less than one pound. It has the item code 228119 XXXXXX. All “sell by” date codes of May 15, 2015 and earlier are recalled.
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