With at least 23 people in Minnesota sickened with the deadly E. coli O157:H7 bacterium, 8 of them hospitalized, and 1 child developing acute kidney failure, all from apparently eating bagged, “pre-washed” lettuce, one needs to ask if the convenience is worth the risk? According to the FDA, more than 245,000 bags of lettuce might be affected nationwide. An alert and recall has been launched. Some of the recalled lettuce has been found to be contaminated with the same E. coli that has sickened the 23 Minnesotans. Is the convenience worth the risk? What more needs to be done?
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Food poisoning sickens 44
The Windsor Star reports that the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit, Ontario, is, according to this story, investigating after employees of a Lakeshore factory became severely ill after eating food brought into the plant from a Tecumseh restaurant.
So far, 44 people became sick after eating the food on Sept. 30, medical officer of health Dr.
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Associated Press reports that more than 330 school children in western Ukraine were hospitalized with food poisoning, including four who were in critical condition, an emergency official said Saturday.
The first 299 children, aged between 2 and 6, became ill on Friday, possibly from food prepared at seven kindergartens in the Khmelnitsky region. An additional
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Baltimore had the fewest cases. Lubbock finished dead last.
The magazine says, “The Hub City has seen more food-borne illness outbreaks per