The Sacramento Bee reports that food safety is serious business, as the recent E. coli outbreak has shown. But a food toxicologist from the University of California-Davis is using a light blend of music and parody to get important food-safety messages across to the public.
As director of the university’s FoodSafe Program, Carl K. Winter
KRLD News Radio reports that a Dallas resident has died after eating raw oysters. Jamie Nicolay with the Collin County Health Department says the victim ate the oysters at a restaurant in Plano. Oysters can be contaminated with the bacterium Vibrio vulnificus.
The Saginaw News (Michigan) reports that Saginaw County’s lead health official has confirmed that a gastrointestinal illness that struck a group of people in Frankenmuth stemmed from a baby shower at the Frankenmuth Credit Union.
The Associated Press reports that California health officials said Thursday they still hope to find the source of the contaminated spinach that’s sickened at least 189 people, but called on farmers to be more diligent about applying food safety measures to prevent future E. coli outbreaks.
While packaged spinach has been removed from store shelves nationwide following an
The Examiner reports that authorities have traced the contaminated spinach that has killed as many as three people and sickened at least 173 to a few counties in California’s Salinas Valley, but let’s not stop the investigative work too soon.
USA Today reports that industry, consumer and patient groups and the last three secretaries of the Health and Human Services department are joining forces to lobby for more money for the Food and Drug Administration.
The Associated Press reports that a second tainted bag of spinach, found in Utah over the weekend, has helped health officials pinpoint E. coli contamination in one specific batch of fresh spinach in a California processing plant.
The Saint Paul Pioneer Press reports that a 10-year-old girl has died after eating poisonous mushrooms a relative picked at St. Paul’s Keller-Phalen Regional Park.
Joseph Ryan of The Daily Herald reports that as the tables rapidly filled for lunch at Yanni’s Greek Restaurant in Arlington Heights, TV reports were warning consumers not to eat the veggie — if it was bought in bags.