Japan’s Heath Ministry says the detection of E. Coli in beef liver may result in the banning of raw liver from the country’s dining menus.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will consider a ban on selling raw beef liver following food poisoning deaths from raw beef served at barbecue restaurants earlier this year, Kyodo
When The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report last week citing romaine lettuce as the source of a multi-state 60-person E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Schnucks supermarkets, it indicated that the E. coli O157:H7 contamination most likely occurred before the lettuce reached Schnucks stores. While the CDC did not name
Hannaford, a Scarborough, Maine-based grocery chain, is recalling an undetermined amount of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with a strain of Salmonella Typhimurium, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
The products subject to recall are any size package of the following:
“73% Hannaford Regular Ground
On Tuesday, July 13, 2010, the Estes Park office of the Larimer County Department of Health and Environment (LCDHE) was contacted by several members of the Summer Residents Association (SRA) who had attended a July 12, 2010 group meal at Wild Basin Lodge in Allenspark, Colorado. The members called to inform the health department that
Yesterday I was speaking to a mother of a child who recently developed Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome as a result of consuming a raw milk product. It is evident from her grief that she felt she was doing something healthful for her child and had no idea of the risks that a raw milk product contain.
As I picked the sprouts off my sandwich today, I asked the waiter if she had ever heard about sprout related outbreaks – especially this last Summer’s outbreak in Germany, that left 50 dead, nearly 1,000 with acute kidney failure and another 3,000 sickened. Clearly annoyed, she said “no.”
The CDC says that children, the elderly, and persons whose immune systems are not functioning well should not eat raw sprouts, because current treatments of seeds and sprouts cannot get rid of all bacteria present.
Persons who are at high risk for complications from foodborne illness should probably not eat raw sprouts, according to an article in the current issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, CDC’s peer-reviewed journal, which tracks new and reemerging infectious diseases worldwide.
Although sprouts are often considered a “health food,” the warm, humid conditions needed for growing sprouts from seeds are also ideal for bacteria to flourish. Salmonella, E. coli, and other bacteria can grow to high levels without affecting the appearance of the sprouts.
Researchers have treated both seeds and sprouts with heat or washed them in solutions of chlorine, alcohol, and other chemicals. Some of these disinfectants reduced the levels of bacteria, but a potential hazard remained, especially for persons with weak immune systems. High temperatures that would kill the bacteria on the seeds would also keep them from sprouting. Until an effective way is found to prevent illness from sprouts, they should be eaten with caution, if at all.
Perhaps it really is time for a warning label of more risky foods, like the on below. What other foods or drinks would qualify?
Sprout Outbreaks*Continue Reading Sprouts Not Healthy Food for Everyone – How about a Warning Label?
The Mississippi State Department of Health says 59 customers and employees of Don Julio Mexican Restaurant in Corinth have tested positive for salmonella. The department says Tuesday that the restaurant remains closed until an improvement plan is approved by health officials. Dr. Jessie R. Taylor, a district health officer, says the source of the salmonella
I remember being at a international food safety conference last year and talking to someone from the EU Food Safety Authority about the difficulty of coordinating foregin states in foodborne illness outbreaks. We do have the same problems – at times – here in the US with at least 50 Ministries of Health. However, many
Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak Tops List in Annual Survey Commissioned by Hunter Public Relations
According to Hunter Public Relations, Food safety tops the list of its annual survey asking Americans to choose the most significant food story of 2011. Even in a year when global food prices hit record highs and both restaurant menus and retail
While many of us have been wondering what the Kardashians will do next, or who will be cut from dancing with the stars, or what silly thing the Republican Presidential race will bring next, The CDC’s Outbreak Response Team has been busy protecting us, or at least figuring out what happened afterwards.
The CDC’s Outbreak
