About 900 students at a school in northern Malaysia have fallen ill for suspected food poisoning, a local newspaper report on Saturday.
About 700 school girls and 200 boys at a school in Sungai Petani, a town in the state of Kedah, began to show symptoms of food poisoning early Saturday morning, including severe stomach
140 secondary school hostel students hit by food poisoning
Alina Simon reports that a mom-and-pop caterer may be the culprit behind the food poisoning involving 140 students of SM Teknik II.
A Kedah Health Department spokesman said the caterer, who operates from his house in Merbok, supplied the nasi lemak supper for 758 students staying at the school hostel last Thursday.
He said the
Health department announces the hiring of environmental health staff
The Clinton Daily Journal (Illinois) reports that the DeWitt/Platt Bi-County Health Department announced today the recent hiring of two new Environmental Health staff to serve the bi-county area.
“We’re very pleased to have two veteran sanitarians join our-staff to help ensure the health of our population,” said Dave Remmert, Public Realth Administrator, “these two staff
Once again Dr. Powell says it like it is – the truth
Commentary from the Food Safety Network’s Dr. Douglas Powell
In May, 1943, Edsel Bryant Ford, son of auto magnate Henry Ford, died at the age of 49 in Detroit, of what some claimed was a broken heart. Biology, however, decreed that Ford died of undulant fever, apparently brought on by drinking unpasteurized milk from the Ford dairy herd, at the behest of his father’s mistaken belief that all things natural must be good.Continue Reading Once again Dr. Powell says it like it is – the truth
Young adults not sure of food safety
Many young adults ages 18 to 31 think it’s OK to defrost frozen food on the counter — a practice that could lead to sickness, says a U.S. survey.
Thirty-five percent say how leftovers should be kept in the refrigerator is the single biggest kitchen mystery, according to a survey of 539 young Americans conducted
Ten Cape Cod tourists treated for food poisoning symptoms
The Associated Press reports that ten people visiting Cape Cod from Michigan were treated for symptoms of food poisoning on Tuesday night, Barnstable fire officials said. They are part of a group of tourists from Trenton, Mich., and are all adults, said Firefighter Stephen Iacovelli.
They were brought by ambulance from a Comfort Inn to
Lane County Health Officials Investigating Cases of Gastrointestinal Illness
Salem-News.com reports that as of 11:00 AM, Thursday, Lane County Public Health officials have received 75 reports of gastrointestinal illness.
Lane County Environmental Health is working with Faerieworlds Festival organizers and interviewing food vendors.
Public Health employees are interviewing cases to provide education to prevent further spread and to gather information which may or may
Raw milk: Fit for human consumption?
Elizabeth Weise of USA TODAY reports that John Langlois feels so strongly about the benefits of unpasteurized goat milk that he pays $19 a gallon to have it shipped from a South Carolina dairy to his home in Estillfork, Ala. He credits it with giving him more energy, curing his grandson’s chronic diarrhea when he was an infant and keeping the boy “steady” rather than “bouncing off the walls” now that he’s 5.
Elizabeth Benner of Rochester, N.Y., drives 45 minutes each way to a dairy to get a week’s worth of raw cow’s milk for nine families in the milk club she organized. She says she was “really struggling” on a low-fat, vegan diet but regained her strength when she added whole raw milk and cream to her diet.
Christina Trecaso of Copley, Ohio, is in a herd share program. She and 150 other families pay boarding costs for “their” cows and take their profits in milk, butter and cream. For her, it’s about “buying food that is minimally processed, food that is procured in a 100-mile radius. It’s about relationships and shaking the hand that feeds you.”
Each of them is a strong believer in the importance of unpasteurized milk. Each of them is also breaking the law. Selling raw milk is illegal in 25 states and the District of Columbia. In New York, dairies providing raw must be state certified. Benner’s is not.Continue Reading Raw milk: Fit for human consumption?
Cross-country: College students hit by food poisoning
Eighty-three college students had food poisoning after eating sardine sandwiches from the canteen on Thursday.
Ten of the Maktab Rendah Sains Mara Kuala Berang students were admitted to the Kuala Terengganu hospital and 50 at the hospital here. The others received outpatient treatment.
Form Four student Siti Fatimah Sulaiman, 16, said those affected had eaten
Is the meal you’re buying safe to eat?
The Georgetown Independent (Ontario) reports that using provincial criteria, all food premises in Halton are ranked high, medium or low riskdepending on the type of food provided and to whom the food is served. The number of times each year that a food premise is inspected depends on its ranking. All food premises in Halton are inspected at least once per year, but some are inspected more frequently.
Public health inspectors’ visits to food premises are unannounced. During inspections, public health inspectors monitor and evaluate how staff handle, prepare, and servefood to ensure they use safe food handling practices and follow basic sanitation rules.Continue Reading Is the meal you’re buying safe to eat?