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News tagged with salmonella outbreak
Largest turtle-linked salmonella outbreak detailed
Oct 19, 2009 |
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(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.
Government tightening food safety standards
Jul 07, 2009 |
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(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.
Poison control at risk in California, other states
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(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 ...
CDC: US food poisoning cases held steady in 2008
Apr 09, 2009 |
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(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.
Tests nipped risk of tainted pistachios in bud
Apr 01, 2009 |
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(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.
FDA says to avoid pistachios amid salmonella scare
Mar 31, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Drug industry advocates join chorus to split FDA
Mar 22, 2009 |
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(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.
Private inspections of food companies seen as weak
Mar 20, 2009 |
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(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.
Kellogg CEO: Food safety must be strengthened
Mar 19, 2009 |
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(AP) -- It's not just consumer groups anymore that say the U.S. food safety system is broken.
New study finds confidence in food safety plunges in wake of peanut butter contamination
Feb 24, 2009 |
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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.
Field of germs: Food safety is in farm worker's hands
Feb 20, 2009 |
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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 ...
Avoiding peanut butter won't solve salmonella problem
Jan 29, 2009 |
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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 ...
Study: Public Perceptions and the Salmonella Outbreak of 2008
Jan 29, 2009 |
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(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 ...
