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Chili’s restaurant cook fired for shirtless kitchen selfies in Florida
One of my favorite food writers, Tina Nguyen, reports for Mediate, that a Chili’s line cook in Florida was fired this week after photos emerged of him taking shirtless photos in a restaurant, and no,...
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Salmonella spurs peanut butter recall in Philippines
The Philippines Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the recall of several batches of Arrowhead Mills Peanut Butter products over possible contamination from Salmonella. Based on FDA...
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Science and blogs: Gelman vs. Case-Deaton
Case and Deaton, welcome to the blogs. Prominent academics are often astonished at the rapidity with which the blogosphere occasionally pounces on and dissects their research findings. In this case, it...
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Aldi recalls smoked trout on Listeria concerns
Supermarket chain Aldi issued a recall on smoked trout products made by H. van Wijnen B.V. after Listeria was found in the product. In certain quantities (actually, U.S. has a zero tolerance) Listeria...
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Not everything is wrong in Kansas (just most things): FDA takes action...
The U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas entered a consent decree of permanent injunction today between the United States and Native American Enterprises, LLC, located in Wichita, Kansas; its...
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Stomach bug outbreak at Fort McMurray wildfire evacuation centres declared over
After 307 cases of gastro-intestinal illnesses were reported at evacuation centres between May 6 and June 1, health officials declared the outbreak over Monday. Alberta Health Services said it was no...
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32,000 hospitalized over contaminated water in Turkey
The number of people hospitalized due to contaminated water in the Elbistan district of the Mediterranean province of Kahramanmaraş has risen from 5,000 to some 32,000, while a group of officials...
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Power of going public: 30 children in Jerusalem daycare sick with Salmonella
Arutz Sheva of Israel National News reports that on April 30, a report was received from the mother of an infant enrolled in an Emunah daycare in Jerusalem claiming infants and toddlers in one of the...
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Cyclosporiasis – France ex Mexico
This case of cyclospora may have no relation to the Canadian outbreak; or may. A 64-year-old French [female] with type 2 diabetes mellitus was referred to our department on [Mon 3 Jul 2017] because she...
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Handwashing is never enough, bureaucrats have no spine: E. coli O157 from...
The EKKA, Queensland’s agricultural showpiece, concluded last week in Brisbane, about the same time an uncomfortable memory was finally published in the peer-reviewed cyber-sphere. In Aug. 2013, 56...
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