King’s Hawaiian is voluntarily recalling its Pretzel Slider Buns, Pretzel Hamburger Buns and Pretzel Bites products out of an abundance of caution following a recall of an ingredient used in the pretzel products from one of its suppliers, Lyons Magnus. Lyons Magnus is recalling this ingredient due to the potential for it to cause microbial
FSIS reports that is is following both an E. coli and a Botulism outbreak.
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Although it is a rare illness, infant botulism is incredibly serious. For this reason, parents of newborns are being reminded to refrain from feeding honey, even the smallest amount, to any child under the age of 1.
If the botulism spores are ingested, they begin to multiply in the infant’s gastrointestinal tract, producing a toxin.
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It was announced today that Ohio company, Amish Wedding Foods, Inc., is recalling all lots of 9, 16, and 18-ounce pumpkin butter, and 16 and 18-ounce sweet potato butter due to possible botulism contamination. Thus far no illness have been reported.
The pumpkin and sweet potato butters were sold around the US under
The FDA has announced the recall of Haifa Smoked Fish brand vacuum packaged Whole Schmaltz Herring with the lot number 20, because the product was found to be uneviscerated. The risk to consumers is that, due to the errors in production, the fish may be contaminated with clostridium botulinum.
The lot being recalled is
For those who spend any time at all thinking about botulism, it’s probably with respect to foods, particularly canned and low-acid foods. But being, all at once, an avid bird hunter with two pointing dogs who also thinks about botulism a good bit of the time, I thought i’d simply issue this warning to any expensive hunting-dog-owning
It may surprise some people to learn that the often-lethal toxins produced by the Clostridium botulinum bacteria, which cause botulism illnesses, are a chief ingredient in certain cosmetic/medical products. In fact, the FDA recently updated its safety warnings about medical products that contain botulism toxins. The FDA advisory concerns four drugs specifically: Botox, Botox Cosmetic, Myobloc, and Dysport. The safety warning states, in part, as follows:
The boxed warning cautions that the effects of the botulinum toxin may spread from the area of injection to other areas of the body, causing symptoms similar to those of botulism. Those symptoms include potentially life-threatening swallowing and breathing difficulties and even death.
These symptoms have mostly been reported in children with cerebral palsy being treated with botulinum toxin for muscle spasticity, a use of the drugs that has not been approved by FDA. Symptoms have also been reported in adults treated both for approved and unapproved uses.
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No definitive serious adverse event reports of distant spread of toxin effect have been associated with dermatologic use of Botox/Botox Cosmetic at the recommended doses (for frown lines between the eyebrows or severe underarm sweating). As well, no definitive serious adverse event reports of distant spread of toxin effect have been associated with Botox when used at approved doses for eyelid twitches or for crossed eyes.
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I moved to Seattle in 2002 and have never experienced a heat wave in late May and early June like the one we are enjoying now. There are few places I’d rather be than Seattle in the summertime, and to our benefit this year, everyone in the Seattle area who planted their garden around Mother’s
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