An employee at a Whataburger restaurant in Texas was diagnosed with hepatitis A, a sometimes fatal foodborne illness that can lead to liver failure. According to www.about-hepatitis.com:
Hepatitis A is a communicable (or contagious) disease that spreads from person to person. It is transmitted by the “fecal – oral route.” This does not mean,
An article from the Des Moines Register quoted business owners and state health officials who are at odds over how restaurant and other food service establishment inspections should be paid for.
Iowa restaurants and grocery stores are, according to this story, being inspected about half as often as the law requires, and food inspectors are
The Chattanoogan is reporting on a foodborne illness outbreak that the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Health Department is investigating.
Health Department officials said, "We received reports of persons that have become ill after attending an event Chattanooga Marriott Convention Center Friday, April 13, and Saturday, April 14. Reported symptoms include nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.
"On Monday, environmental
More than a hundred people are still in hospital in Harbin following a mass food poisoning incident which proved fatal for a 77 year-old patient. The incident occurred on Monday at the Heilongjiang Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Harbin, the provincial capital. According to Song Chunhua, deputy chief of criminal investigation at the
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The FDA has issued a warning to consumers about olives that have been recalled due to a possible contamination of a deadly bacterium. The olives were produced by an Italian company and sold nationwide under brand names such as Borrelli, Vantia and Roland. The olives may be contaminated with a botulism causing bacterium. All the
According to HealthDay News, capsules of dried rattlesnake meat — a Hispanic folk remedy purported to cure a host of health problems including acne, impotence, AIDS and cancer — can be contaminated with a potentially lethal strain of salmonella bacteria, a U.S. infection control expert warns.
John James, a microbial epidemiologist at Children’s Hospital in
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A 15th person has tested positive for E. coli as authorities continue to investigate what caused the outbreak linked to an Orange County restaurant.
Fourteen customers and one employee at the restaurant in Lake Forest have tested positive for the dangerous bacterium, officials with the county Health Care Agency said Thursday. All were at the
MSNBC reported today that the wave of American pet deaths linked to contaminated food is bringing home a frightening new fact: China’s chronic food safety woes are now an international concern.
The list of Chinese food exports rejected at American ports reads like a chef’s nightmare: pesticide-laden pea pods, drug-laced catfish, filthy plums and crawfish
Health officials confirm a 12th case of E. coli and learn an employee also tested positive
Mary Ann Milbourn of the Orange County Register reported this morning that the restaurant in Foothill Ranch has been closed after a 12th case of E. coli was confirmed among customers and one employee tested positive for the bacteria
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Commentary from the International Food Safety Network Douglas Powell
Spinach and lettuce is once again being harvested in California and it’s as safe as it was before the food poisoning outbreaks of last fall. Or 2005. Or after any of the other 29 leafy green outbreaks over the past 15 years.
But there is some hope that the safety of leafy greens will improve. And it has nothing to do with calls for government inspections, new technology, or even pledges by growers to be extra super special careful.
The final report on the fall 2006 outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 in spinach, which sickened 205 and killed three, has come and gone, interesting those in the business but largely a yawn to the salad-eating public — a public that is skeptical and is buying 20-to-30 per cent less of the leafy green stuff than a year ago.Continue Reading Don’t eat poop — and other lessons from spinach