March 2008

Claudia Sanders Dinner House in Shelbyville, KY proves again that sometimes its the really popular places that can be the most dangerous for eating and drinking.

After making more than 100 people god-awfully sick with Staphylococcus bacteria on Easter Sunday, the southern landmark is going to re-open for weekend business, beginning tonight with the lounge.

The decline of the print media gets much attention.   So much so, that one sign of life for the print media goes un-noticed.   That is the rise of the number of Sunday newspapers.   We are a weekend people in this 21st Century, and newspaper publishers while often stupid are usually are not fools.

For that reason, according

The Centers For Disease Control & Prevention says we do not need get a vaccine for Typhoid Fever unless we travel to Third World countries or work in a laboratory with Salmonella Typhi bacteria.  Oh, and if you happen to come into contact with anyone who is a typhoid carrier.

That last category now applies

Before the witnesses got to testify in yesterday’s hearing of the House Subcommittee on  Oversight & Investigations,  Chairman John  D. Dingell had a few things to say, including:

Those who heard the testimony at our first food safety hearing of the parents of the children who became very sick or seriously injured from contaminated food

KVUE-TV News in Austin, Texas is reporting that one child has died and five other people are ill all due to a shiga toxin.   Since an initial report on the illnesses issued late last week by the Texas Department of Health Services, concern about the shiga toxin has become very serious.

As reported by KVUE

Seattle food safety conferenceFew subjects draw more immediate attention or concern than the safety of the food we eat. Recent years have seen a plethora of food warnings and recalls, raising new questions about the quality and integrity of our existing system for assuring food safety. In addition to explaining how our present system works, this program is

We deal with many victims of food borne illness, often while they or family members are still being treated at hospitals and clinics.   Many of them use the Internet in those moments of crisis to find an attorney.   So, we cannot rule out the possibility that victims of food borne illness will also go on-line