Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Feb 9, 2012, 9:47 am
It’s the second most common food illness in the United States and it makes more than a million people sick every year. Salmonella is something you can get right in your own kitchen. When you ingest the salmonella bacteria it’s usually through contaminated surfaces. Your hands come in contact w...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Feb 8, 2012, 9:04 am
A new report published by the European Commission (EC) recently reveals that more than 9,000 tonnes of food were irradiated in the European Union in 2010. The main findings are summarised by senior editor, Jackie Linden. According to the report, entitled Report from the Commission to the European P...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Feb 6, 2012, 10:36 am
A cruise ship operated by Carnival Corp. the world’s biggest cruise company, now has more than 100 people onboard that have ... informed of the virus and cleanup. The Crown Princess, another Carnival-operated ship, was infected by the same virus last week ... crew members out of the 3,100 peopl...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Feb 6, 2012, 1:57 am
Looks good – tastes good for meat eaters. But how much of that meat patty is pink slime? Ever wonder what makes the meat patties used in hamburgers in fast food eateries like McDonald’s, and Burger King seem so fresh? The secret is not really how much meat glue, or whether the meat patty used i...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Feb 3, 2012, 4:21 am
... that the watermelon pack was infested with salmonella. The Health Protection Agency officials told that ... evident. Reports revealed that 70% are female who have been infected from salmonella poisoning and also includes an infant ... . Five people have got infected with salmonella infection ...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Feb 3, 2012, 4:21 am
... that the watermelon pack was infested with salmonella. The Health Protection Agency officials told that ... evident. Reports revealed that 70% are female who have been infected from salmonella poisoning and also includes an infant ... . Five people have got infected with salmonella infection ...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Feb 2, 2012, 9:02 am
An outbreak of salmonella which struck 68 people across the U.S. originated at Taco Bell, it has emerged. A government agency had previously announced that a Mexican-style fast-food chain was behind the disease, but refused to confirm which one was the source, referring to it only as ‘Restaurant ...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Jan 31, 2012, 4:36 am
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), approximately 75 percent of the newest emerging infectious diseases affecting humans are diseases of animal origin. They also report that approximately 60 percent of all human diseases are zoonotic – meaning they can spread from an animal to a hum...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Jan 31, 2012, 4:36 am
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), approximately 75 percent of the newest emerging infectious diseases affecting humans are diseases of animal origin. They also report that approximately 60 percent of all human diseases are zoonotic – meaning they can spread from an animal to a hum...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Jan 29, 2012, 7:53 am
Australian chicken farmers say the discovery of bird flu at two Victorian duck farms is not a food safety risk and chicken products are still safe to eat. At least 10,000 ducks will have to be destroyed to contain the outbreak, despite the virus being a low pathogenic avian influenza and not the de...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Jan 28, 2012, 9:14 am
More than 4,600 Japanese cattle from 15 prefectures suspected of being fed rice straw contaminated by radioactive substances released during nuclear crisis. The Japanese Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry has been unable to track the distribution routes of nearly 3,000 cows whose meat is suspected ...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Jan 24, 2012, 12:00 am
Food recall of mung beans and alfalfa sprouts due to Ecoli contamination There’s been another food recall of mung beans grown in Victoria Australia. For the second time this month, mung beans and mung bean and alfalfa sprout mixes have been recalled due to E. coli contamination. The salad mixes ...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Jan 24, 2012, 12:00 am
Food recall of mung beans and alfalfa sprouts due to Ecoli contamination There’s been another food recall of mung beans grown in Victoria Australia. For the second time this month, mung beans and mung bean and alfalfa sprout mixes have been recalled due to E. coli contamination. The salad mixes ...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Jan 21, 2012, 9:39 am
Snaresbrook Crown Court Police investigate allegations that urine has been found in food served at Snaresbrook Crown Court Canteen staff at Snaresbrook Crown Court are being questioned by police after traces of urine were allegedly found in food served to judges and barristers. According to a rep...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Jan 21, 2012, 9:39 am
Snaresbrook Crown Court Police investigate allegations that urine has been found in food served at Snaresbrook Crown Court Canteen staff at Snaresbrook Crown Court are being questioned by police after traces of urine were allegedly found in food served to judges and barristers. According to a rep...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Jan 18, 2012, 7:00 pm
A now former employee at a McDonald’s in Philadelphia claims he saw the rodent while on the job and whipped out his cell phone camera. He’s talking only to Fox about what his manager told him to do with that food. The man says this happened when he worked for the McDonald’s on Stenton Avenue...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Nov 3, 2011, 10:49 pm
Drums of apple juice concentrate are stored at China Haisheng Juice Holdings Co. facility in Xian, Shaanxi province,China. U.S. food and drug regulators are requesting Beijing's help in implementing a new food-safety law requiring stricter oversight of exported food, a sign of China's growing impor...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Nov 2, 2011, 9:25 am
Investigators were looking into a possible link between salad bars at a major grocery chain and 33 suspected E. coli cases in the St. Louis area, a state health official said Tuesday. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said 26 people have tested positive for the E. coli strain 01...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Nov 1, 2011, 12:00 am
Inspectors with the commercial authority in Rongan county, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, test samples of cooking oil on Oct 17 The latest quarterly report from the China Consumers' Association shows that the public is becoming more concerned about food quality. And at a time wh...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 29, 2011, 9:21 am
It has been confirmed that two people from Helsinki, Finland contracted the very dangerous botulinum toxin after consuming Gaudiano Organic Olives Stuffed with Almonds. Lab tests confirmed that the jar from which they had eaten the olives contained botulinum toxin. The tainted olives were in 314ml...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 29, 2011, 8:06 am
Green rice snack “Cốm” (grilled rice snack) produced in Hanoi has been found containing malachite green, a chemical banned from use in food production, in quantities that are thousands of times higher than the European limit. The Hanoi Health Department has found the presence of malachite gr...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 27, 2011, 9:21 am
The Ministry of Health of Indonesia has announced two new confirmed cases of human infection with avian influenza A(H5N1) virus. The first case is a 5-year old female from Bangli district, Bali Province. She developed symptoms on 27 September, and was first admitted to a local general hospital on 5...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 25, 2011, 9:21 am
Meat in a German market European consumers and industry will get increased protection against dioxin contamination if a draft regulation governing the handling of crude vegetable oils is approved by the European Commission. The measure was endorsed Friday by the member states at the Standing Commi...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 24, 2011, 12:10 am
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Shanghai started off the New Year with a city-wide inspection of various hotpot restaurants after a practice of adding poppy shells in the soup was discovered in other cities in China. According to Du Bing, an official of the Shanghai FDA, the illegal use of po...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 23, 2011, 8:28 am
China will launch nationwide checks on school canteens in an attempt to prevent occurrences of food poisoning, said the State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) and Ministry of Education (MOE) on Saturday. The SFDA and MOE ordered local health and education administrations to immediately carry out...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 21, 2011, 12:10 am
China has pledged to hold people more accountable for their actions following a string of scandals involving everything from food safety to fakes. China’s State Council, or cabinet, said business fraud, the sale of fake products and “improper academic behaviour” persisted, despite government ...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 19, 2011, 10:40 pm
A nationwide listeria outbreak that has killed 25 people who ate tainted cantaloupe was probably caused by unsanitary conditions in the packing shed of the Colorado farm where the melons were grown, federal officials said Wednesday. The Food and Drug Administration recalled 300,000 cases of melons ...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 17, 2011, 12:41 am
Netizens have questioned the safety of the box lunches with extra-long guarantee periods supplied on high-speed trains, though scientific test have proved the food is safe to eat. A passenger, surnamed Su, from Hefei of Anhui province, purchased a box lunch on a bullet train from Shanghai to Hangzh...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 14, 2011, 10:36 pm
The rat lungworm parasite, also known as Angiostrongylus cantonensis, is passed to slugs from rodent droppings An Australian man is gravely ill in hospital after eating two slugs as part of a dare. Doctors believe that the 21-year-old, who has not been named, contracted the rare rat lungworm paras...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 14, 2011, 4:01 am
Listeria-tainted cantaloupes are now to blame for 23 deaths across the U.S. It’s the latest in a string of foods blamed for spreading deadly diseases. The cantaloupes are by far the deadliest outbreak of a food-borne illness in more than two decades, but there are still foods you shouldn’t forg...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 12, 2011, 9:50 am
The warm, moist environment necessary for growing sprouts provides the perfect conditions for bacteria to multiply. Recent headlines about contaminated foods, from peanut butter and salad to turkey and eggs, are enough to make even the most intrepid eater a little bit paranoid. But before you comm...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 11, 2011, 4:10 am
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 7, 2011, 10:16 pm
A death in Ontario County linked to the national listeria outbreak has been reported. The Ontario County Public Health Department said Friday that the death of an elderly person with underlying health conditions is connected to listeria in Colorado cantaloupes. This is the first confirmed case in ...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 7, 2011, 10:16 pm
A death in Ontario County linked to the national listeria outbreak has been reported. The Ontario County Public Health Department said Friday that the death of an elderly person with underlying health conditions is connected to listeria in Colorado cantaloupes. This is the first confirmed case in ...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 6, 2011, 3:45 am
A pregnant Iowa woman has suffered a miscarriage after contracting a listeria infection tied to tainted cantaloupe, underscoring the seriousness of the ongoing outbreak in mothers-to-be, state health officials said. The woman, who is an adult between the ages of 18 and 40 from northwest Iowa, came ...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 4, 2011, 10:49 am

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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 2, 2011, 5:26 am
China said Friday it has halted the import of raw oysters from the U.S. State of Washington after reports of an illness outbreak. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said it has also recalled raw oysters already imported from the state by Chinese com...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 2, 2011, 5:26 am
China said Friday it has halted the import of raw oysters from the U.S. State of Washington after reports of an illness outbreak. The General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) said it has also recalled raw oysters already imported from the state by Chinese com...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Oct 1, 2011, 12:33 am
With several food recalls in recent weeks many are worried their food is not safe. Fruits, vegetables and meat have all been recalled in recent weeks because of e-coli, salmonella and listeria Leesa Wood-Calvi, an area food safety expert says avoiding illnesses when it comes to food all starts in ...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Sep 29, 2011, 4:11 am
The rotavirus is the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis (GE) in children below the age of five in Singapore. It accounted for close to 40 per cent of GE-related hospitalisations in Singapore. This finding was revealed in a local hospital-based study led by Professor Phua Kong Boo. He’s...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Sep 27, 2011, 8:23 am
The malpractice of preserving fish in formalin is widespread in Andhra Pradesh and in Delhi. Food adulteration in India seems to be getting deadlier by the day. First we had some unscrupulous dairy farmers in western Uttar Pradesh inventing synthetic milk – a deadly cocktail of urea, caustic soda...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Sep 24, 2011, 9:17 am
The China Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said Wednesday that more of the country’s meat products are free of clenbuterol, an illegal fat-burning drug that is sometimes used as an additive in pig feed, thanks to the country’s four-month crackdown on the usage of the additive. According to the MOA...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Sep 23, 2011, 4:12 am
A peddler selling breakfast in Xicheng district in Beijing is ordered to close by the health department on Aug 3 due to safety problems. The capital’s food safety watchdog is offering large rewards to informants who expose hazards and scandals, it was announced on Thursday. Callers whose tips he...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Sep 22, 2011, 8:57 am
Three children have died and more than 50 others are seriously ill in Peru after eating a school meal contaminated with pesticide, officials say. The children were being fed by a government nutrition programme for the poor, at a remote mountain village in the north of the country. It is thought th...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Sep 20, 2011, 4:33 am
A Chinese journalist who had been following a scandal involving the sale of cooking oil made from leftovers taken from gutters has been stabbed to death, police and state media said Tuesday. Li Xiang, 30, a reporter with Luoyang Television Station in the central province of Henan, was knifed more t...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Sep 18, 2011, 9:50 am
An outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe that has killed as many as four people is a mystery to disease specialists who are used to seeing the pathogen in deli meats and soft cheeses. About 800 cases of listeria are found in the United States each year, according to the federal Centers for Disease Con...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Sep 18, 2011, 9:50 am
An outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe that has killed as many as four people is a mystery to disease specialists who are used to seeing the pathogen in deli meats and soft cheeses. About 800 cases of listeria are found in the United States each year, according to the federal Centers for Disease Con...
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Sep 14, 2011, 10:19 pm
Related article: 13/09/11: Police in China seize 100 tons of ‘gutter oil’
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Sep 14, 2011, 10:19 pm
Related article: 13/09/11: Police in China seize 100 tons of ‘gutter oil’
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Suen C. posted an article on Food Safety Net - Sep 13, 2011, 3:09 am
An employee of a Biotech company skims gutter oil from a tank. His company in Zhejiang Province manufactures gutter oil into biotech diesel oil. Chinese police have detained 32 people in a nationwide crackdown on “gutter oil,” or old kitchen oil that has been illegally recycled, authorities sai...
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