WTEM (New York) reporter Allison Walker recently did a story on food poisoning in the home.
September is National Food Safety Education Month. The point of the annual campaign is to make sure you don’t get sick because of things you’re doing – or not doing – in your kitchen. There are a few
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The CDC estimates that 76 million foodborne illness, or food poisoning, cases occur in the United States every year, which means that one in four Americans contracts a foodborne illness annually after eating foods contaminated with such pathogens as E. coli O157:H7, Salmonella, Hepatitis A, Campylobacter, Shigella, Norovirus, and Listeria. Approximately 325,000 people are hospitalized
People’s Daily (China) reports that at least 22 Filipino students in a central province were ill and rushed to hospital on Tuesday after they ate a kind of local popular street snack, officials said.
The ill students, aged 12 to 14, are from Emilio Gaston Elementary School, Silay City, Negros Occidental province, said Senior Superintendent
Clostridium perfringens
Clostridium perfringens is widely present in the environment, and often occurs in the intestines of humans and many animals. C. perfringens is one of the most common foodborne illnesses in the United States. Institutional foodservice areas such as school cafeterias, hospitals, and nursing homes are primary targets for populations of the organism.
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The New Zealand Medical Association released a paper on food-associated Campylobacteriosis in August, 2006. It can be found at http://www.nzma.org.nz/news/media-releases/flies.pdf.
China Daily reports that city authorities have threatened to close schools that fail to meet strict new hygiene standards, brought in after a series of food poisoning cases. Chengdu Municipal Education Bureau in Sichuan Province yesterday issued an emergency circular calling for improved efforts to ensure food safety in the city’s kindergartens, and primary and high schools.
Kindergarten, primary and high school canteens that fail to meet hygiene standards will be closed and can reopen only after making improvements, the circular said. The bureau is to send 38 groups of supervisors to districts, cities and counties under Chengdu’s administration over the next week to ensure the new rules are followed. Last week, pupils at Dunyi Primary School, in Wangsi township near Chengdu, started vomiting after lunch in the school canteen.Continue Reading New rules to prevent school food poisoning
Per the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive, and Kidney Diseases, foodborne illness results from eating food contaminated with bacteria (or their toxins) or other pathogens such as parasites or viruses. The illnesses range from upset stomach to more serious symptoms, including diarrhea, fever, vomiting, abdominal cramps, and dehydration. Although most foodborne infections are undiagnosed and unreported, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that every year about 76 million people in the United States become ill from pathogens in food. Of these, about 5,000 die.
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The Associated Press reports that eight diners who came down with a rare lung infection after eating raw shellfish consumed live sawagani crabs on a dare, health officials said Friday.
Health investigators said the crabs, which are usually served fried, were eaten at various restaurants including Riptide Rockin’ Sushi & Teppan Grill in Mission Viejo and
The Sunday Telegraph reports that Sydney’s filthiest restaurant has remained open for business despite being caught with a rats’ nest in its kitchen, live cockroaches in noodles and rat droppings in a serving bowl.
The Sun Garden Chinese Restaurant, at Lidcombe, has been caught seriously breaching food safety laws three times in three years –
The Health and Community News reports that the Centre for Health Protection is investigating a suspected food poisoning case involving 10 women who fell sick after consuming take-away food from a restaurant in Sham Shui Po and home-made food.
The patients, aged 26 to 55, developed stomach pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and fever from about
