Ruths Blogboard has a post all about botulism.
"With foodborne botulism, symptoms begin within 6 hours to 2 weeks (most commonly between 12 and 36 hours) after eating toxin-containing food. Symptoms of botulism include double vision, blurred vision, drooping eyelids, slurred speech, difficulty swallowing, dry mouth, muscle weakness that always descends through the body: first
KFYR-TV reports that your mother probably told you about the importance of eating your veggies, but with all the attention given lately to E. coli, and other foodborne illness, a lot of people are wondering if that`s such a good idea. Although most healthy adults can recover from foodborne illness within a week, young
September’s spinach scare and the new warnings on Salinas Valley, Calif., lettuce are reminders to home cooks to keep food safety in mind.
It’s an issue that I’ve been watching since I noted last spring that a few recipes, such as those calling for raw eggs, are outdated.
Specifically, I’ve found recipes for chocolate mousse,
The recent outbreak of E. coli in spinach from California exposed a weakness in the nation’s food chain.
DEADLY EFFICIENCY: A system that quickly delivers meat, fruits and vegetables to consumers just as easily can spread potentially deadly bacteria.
NATIONWIDE OUTBREAK: Like most food, spinach travels from the field to a central facility where it
In response to a fourth case of botulism being linked to Bolthouse Farms, Bakersfield, California brand carrot juice, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers not to drink Bolthouse Farms Carrot Juice, 450 ml and 1 liter plastic bottles, with "BEST IF USED BY" dates of NOV 11 2006 or earlier. Consumers should
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Two Toronto residents are paralyzed in hospital after they drank toxic carrot juice purchased in Toronto that has been recalled across North America.
"There are two adults who are severely ill in hospital and they had a history of drinking the exact same juice that’s been part of the carrot juice recall," said Dr. Elizabeth
A popular city restaurant that catered a United Illuminated event at which at least 19 people got sick is off the hook as a source of the pesky pathogen, city health experts said Wednesday.
"None of the lab results indicate that the food served at the event was the source," said Bill Quinn, the city
On October 8, 2006, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) became aware that The Nunes Company, Inc., of Salinas, California initiated a voluntary recall of green leaf lettuce distributed under the Foxy brand. The company reported to FDA that it initiated the recall because of E.coli contamination of water used to irrigate the lettuce plants
The Catalyst Online reports that the recent spinach-implicated E. coli outbreak has many people talking about food safety—as they should be. According to an article published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 76 million cases of foodborne illness and 5,000 foodborne illness-related deaths occur in the United States each year.
A food safety scare such as the E.coli outbreak often prompts people to practice higher levels of good food safety habits. This extreme level of diligence normally fades over time as the immediate threat diminishes, and things seemingly return to normal. This particular outbreak represents a food safety crisis that could occur at a nationwide level. However, the biggest threat of foodborne illness and food safety is probably much closer to home—in your own kitchen.
Some of the most common mistakes made in the home kitchen that are associated with food safety issues are:Continue Reading Practice safe food handling in your own kitchen
Yahoo! News, Agence France Presse, reports that American farmers got a new set of tips from the US Department of Agriculture this harvest season: how to protect themselves from a terrorist attack.
Few were likely to worry much in the quiet rural communities that have so far been untouched by the low cloud of anxiety that has settled over urban areas with the dense populations, which offer anonymity to outsiders and potentially high casualty counts.
"Out here things are still pretty quiet," said cattle rancher Rod Findley as he finished feeding his Hereford heifers in an early morning fog that drifted across the Missouri hillsides. "I would think a terrorist would be a little out of place around here."Continue Reading US officials warn of terrorist attacks on food supply