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NORTH CAROLINA: Tests find mold, fecal bacteria in children's lunch boxes

bites News — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:52:37 +0000

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Parents wouldn’t serve their children peanut butter and jelly with mold or a ham sandwich with a side of fecal coliforms, but those combinations are popping up in lunch boxes, according to a 5 On Your Side investigation with North Carolina State University.

NEVADA: Dirty dining: Thai Original BBQ on 3rd Street

bites News — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:51:50 +0000

Las Vegas, NV -- Frozen food stored in men's restroom area. That is just one of the violations that the Southern Nevada Health District found at Thai Original BBQ on 3rd Street, just off Las Vegas Boulevard South.
Inspectors slapped the restaurant with 63 demerits. And shut it down.
Any restaurant that receives more than 40 demerits is closed automatically.

FIJI: Deadline on food safety

bites News — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:51:03 +0000

ALL food establishments in the country have to be Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points certified by 2015.
Under the Food Safety Act 2003, all food processors, restaurants, eateries and other food sellers have to be HACCP certified.

AUSTRALIA: Pigs battered with metal pole at abattoir

bites News — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:49:27 +0000

Video footage from a western Sydney abattoir under investigation for animal cruelty shows pigs being battered over the head with a metal pole.
The NSW Food Authority on Thursday halted slaughtering at Hawkesbury Valley Meat Processors at Wilberforce after it received video footage showing "acts of gross animal mistreatment".

AUSTRALIA: Rogue abattoir not representative: govt

bites News — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:48:39 +0000

A Sydney abattoir that has been shut down because of gross animal mistreatment is a rogue operator and not representative of the industry, the NSW Food Authority says.
The Authority suspended operations at Hawkesbury Valley Meat Processors at Wilberforce on Thursday after it received video footage depicting "acts of gross animal mistreatment".

INDIA: Mangalore: Food poisoning - 50 students of St Joseph's school taken ill

bites News — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:47:48 +0000

Mangalore -- Speaking to Daijiworld, Sr Sheryl of St Joseph Higher Primary School said that all students who were admitted for food poisoning are out of danger, and one by one, they are getting discharged. A few students who are still in the hospital will be out by evening, she added.

CHINA’s ’s Li urges tough food-safety rules as Guangzhou tests eggs

bites News — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:46:44 +0000

Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang called for harsh punishments against food-safety violations as officials removed eggs that a shopper claimed were fake in southern China’s Guangzhou city.

KENTUCKY: Stomach bug outbreak follows youth basketball tournament

bites News — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:45:08 +0000

They came from across the state for a youth basketball tournament, but many fans, players, and family members went home sick.

US: Outbreak of illness forces early end to Princess cruise

bites News — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:45:58 +0000

Princess Cruises has ordered an early end to a Caribbean cruise that has been marred by an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness.
The line today announced that the 3,080-passenger Crown Princess is returning to its home port of Ft. Lauderdale, which it departed on Saturday, and will undergo an extensive, two-day sanitization.

From farm to fork: Direct supply chain relationships in the hospitality industry in the south east of Ireland

bites News — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:44:20 +0000

Abstract:
Purpose - This paper seeks to explore the attitudes and behaviour of the hospitality sector, in the south east of Ireland, with regard to direct selling relationships with primary food suppliers. The paper also presents the motivations and challenges for hospitality practitioners in developing and maintaining direct relationships with primary suppliers.

From farm to fork: Direct supply chain relationships in the hospitality industry in the south east of Ireland

bites News — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:44:20 +0000

Food safety knowledge, attitude and food handling practices of students

bites News — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:41:52 +0000

Abstract:
Purpose - The number of reported food borne illnesses has increased recently in the world. In this respect, our study was carried out to investigate the food safety knowledge, attitude and food handling practices of university students in Turkey.

Food safety culture is more than just training

bites News — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:49:16 +0000

Most of the stuff I've worked on in the past ten years has something to do with evaluating and supporting food safety culture. bites, barfblog, infosheets and reality-based research are all about providing information to make risk-based decisions and assessing where there might be gaps.
The ultimate goal is less sick people.

I want to buy food from a market vendor who worries about killing their customers

bites News — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:48:35 +0000

When I was in high school, nerding it up with some other high school kids at the obviously-exciting annual Ontario Model Parliament simulation, I met Hilary Weston. She was the Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario (that's in Canada) and she and Galen, her husband, owned a bunch of huge food businesses including Weston Foods (Canada's largest bakery) and most of food retailer Loblaws.

Political rally in Mexico ends with 650 barfing

bites News — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:47:01 +0000

Officials of a Mexican political party are apologizing to 650 indigenous people who suffered food poisoning after attending a campaign rally in southern Mexico.
Authorities in the indigenous town of Chilapa had to open an auditorium on Wednesday to treat people who became sick after eating rice tacos and eggs handed out by former mayor Sergio Dolores, who is running for congress.

Jersey schools battling norovirus; students not always the best at handwashing

bites News — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:46:23 +0000

Universities have a tough time with norovirus. Close quarters, not-the-best-personal-hygiene and cafeterias are all factors in spreading the pathogen around. Brae Surgeoner, Doug and I had a paper published in the September 2009 Journal of Environmental Health about some research we conducted in the Winter of 2006.

Hepatitis A alert at Gonzalez restaurant in Dallas

bites News — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:45:39 +0000

If you’ve eaten at Gonzalez Restaurant, 8121 Bruton Road, in Dallas, between January 25-28, you may want to see a doctor.
An employee who was diagnosed with hepatitis A went to work and may have come in contact with customers.
Health-types are working to alert medical care providers to be on the lookout for any customers who may have been infected.

US: 90 day delay for testing by FSIS for non-O157:H7

bites News — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:44:59 +0000

Wow. Who did not see this one coming?
When FSIS announced they were extending the comment period for the proposed rule to December 21, 2011, most of whom have been around awhile and following FSIS recognized that move as the not so secret way to delay implementation.

US: UNL scientists receive grant to research E. coli, partner with Kansas State, USDA

bites News — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:44:09 +0000

Just a month after Jim Keen submitted a proposal to receive a $25 million grant to research strains of E. coli in beef, his own niece was infected with the dangerous infection.
His niece, who contracted the bacteria at a Kentucky petting zoo in October 2010, nearly died.

Poultry as a host for the zoonotic pathogen Campylobacter jejuni

bites News — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:43:19 +0000

Abstract