16.mar.07
from a press release
Concord, MA -- According to a study published in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry, grape juice made from Concord grapes may be an outstanding source among popular juices and juice drinks.
18.mar.07
Associated Press
Libby Quaid
WASHINGTON -- Millions of children, according to this story, eat in school cafeterias that don't get the twice-yearly health inspections required by Congress to help prevent food poisoning.
Agriculture Department data obtained by The Associated Press was cited as saying that schools are supposed to get two visits from health inspectors every year, but one in 10 schools didn't get inspected at all last year, and 30 percent were visited only once.
18.mar.07
The Wichita Eagle (KS)
Phyllis Jacobs Griekspoor
MANHATTAN -- Pat Roberts Hall, home of the new $50-million Biosecurity Research Institute, is scheduled to open this month at Kansas State University, the only full-size, agricultural and food safety biosecurity laboratory in the world.
Researchers there, led by Randy Phebus -- a food microbiologist and professor of food safety and security at K-State -- will study pathogens considered possible terrorist weapons, including anthrax, and staphylococcus and botulinum toxins.
14.mar.07
Bloomberg.com
John Lauerman
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601202&sid=a242F8w0MpvA&refer=healthcare
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will, according to this story, study the potential for bird flu to contaminate prepared foods, including fish, animal feed and poultry.
15.mar.07
Herald Sun (Australia)
Carly Crawford
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21384307-2862,00.html
Yao Jai Chen, 50, a Chinese takeaway owner who served up a steamed dim sim crawling with cockroaches has, according to this story, been slugged $9000 after he admitted delivering the appetiser teeming with live cockroaches and littered with the insects' faeces.
The Sunshine Magistrates' Court yesterday heard the offending parcel was delivered free with a $20 order of fried rice and beef skewers.
13.mar.07
WLWT.com
http://www.wlwt.com/news/11234092/detail.html
MASON, Ohio -- Health officials from Warren County and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health are, according to this story, continuing to investigate what may have caused visitors of the Great Wolf Lodge indoor water park to get sick.
Warren County health Commissioner Dwayne Stansbury was quoted as saying, "They did a walk-through to get the layout and the design and look at equipment."
13.mar.07
wcco.com (MN)
http://wcco.com/local/local_story_072090333.html
Skime, Minn. -- Federal sharpshooters have, according to this story, killed about 225 whitetails in the last three weeks in an effort to measure and control an outbreak of bovine tuberculosis in the area.
Michelle Powell, wildlife health program coordinator for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, was cited as saying it will take about three months to find out whether the tissue from any of the deer tested positive for TB.
13.mar.07
FAO News Release
"This guide has been developed to assist food safety regulators’ understanding and use of risk analysis in national food safety frameworks, and provides essential background information, guidance and practical examples. The primary audience is food safety officials at the national government level. The publication is currently available in English, with French and Spanish versions forthcoming in mid-2007."
Download at:
ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/009/a0822e/a0822e00.pdf
10.mar.07
Baltimore Sun
Gina Davis
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/dining/bal-md.co.digest10mar10,0,1332832.story?coll=bal-artslife-dining
County inspectors were cited as saying Friday that a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant in eastern Baltimore County, where members of a family say they dined before becoming ill last weekend, will remain closed until it has hired a certified food handler and completed decontamination.
10.mar.07
The Gazette (Montreal)
Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University's Office for Science and Society (www.OSS.McGill.ca) who can be heard every Sunday from 3-4 p.m. on CJAD, writes that antioxidant supplement manufacturers are circling the wagons and taking aim at the messenger. In this case the target is Goran Bjelakovic, leader of a research group that has published a study on the effectiveness of antioxidant supplements in disease prevention.
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