http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- Two girls who swam with pet turtles in a backyard pool were among 107 people sickened in the largest salmonella outbreak blamed on turtles nationwide, researchers report. http://www.physorg.com/news175141782.html Medicine & Health Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:30:24 EST news175141782 (AP) -- New safety standards aimed at reducing salmonella and E. coli outbreaks are part of a government effort to try to make food safer to eat. http://www.physorg.com/news166181417.html Medicine & Health Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:30:45 EST news166181417 (AP) -- Each day, skeleton crews of doctors, nurses and pharmacists field almost 900 calls a day around California from people such as a mother whose child swallowed flea repellant and an elderly man who accidentally doubled up on his medication. http://www.physorg.com/news165137283.html Medicine & Health Thu, 25 Jun 2009 08:29:28 EST news165137283 (AP) -- Americans didn't suffer more food poisoning last year despite high-profile outbreaks involving peppers, peanut butter and other foods, according to a government report released Thursday. http://www.physorg.com/news158504012.html Medicine & Health Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:54:09 EST news158504012 (AP) -- A nationwide recall of 2 million pounds of pistachios in the wake of a salmonella scare has increased calls for more stringent food testing laws. http://www.physorg.com/news157829830.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:39:00 EST news157829830 (AP) -- In another food scare sure to rattle consumers who watched the national salmonella outbreak in peanuts unfold, federal food officials are now warning people not to eat any food containing pistachios, which could carry contamination from the same bacteria. http://www.physorg.com/news157701995.html Medicine & Health Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:07:21 EST news157701995 (AP) -- As momentum builds to rework the nation's food-safety system after a salmonella outbreak linked to peanuts, the drug industry is hoping for a happy side effect: faster approvals for new medicines. http://www.physorg.com/news156957177.html Medicine & Health Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:13:25 EST news156957177 (AP) -- The mortgage meltdown exposed the weakness of self-regulation in financial markets. Now the salmonella outbreak is doing the same for the food industry. http://www.physorg.com/news156752062.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:15:11 EST news156752062 (AP) -- It's not just consumer groups anymore that say the U.S. food safety system is broken. http://www.physorg.com/news156663460.html Medicine & Health Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:38:19 EST news156663460 Fewer than one in four consumers now believe the U.S. food supply is safer than it was a year ago, according to new data from the University of Minnesota's Food Industry Center. http://www.physorg.com/news154696126.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:09:14 EST news154696126 The recent salmonella outbreak linked to 575 illnesses and eight deaths across 43 states was shown to come from a dirty peanut processing plant in Georgia. And while it is essential for food processing plants to be clean and sanitary, Temple public health professor Jennifer Ibrahim, Ph.D., says officials need to consider other possible sources of illness. http://www.physorg.com/news154341910.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:45:51 EST news154341910 It's as if the whole nation just acquired a peanut allergy. As a salmonella outbreak sickens hundreds of people across the country, federal health officials are warning consumers not to eat products containing peanut butter until they get more information about which products are behind the outbreak. http://www.physorg.com/news152473410.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Jan 2009 17:44:19 EST news152473410 (PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Rutgers Food Policy Institute (FPI) have investigated public perceptions of the 2008 Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak, the largest foodborne illness outbreak in the United States in over a decade. http://www.physorg.com/news152464793.html Medicine & Health Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:20:52 EST news152464793