News on Food Poisoning

CDC uses shopper-card data to trace salmonella

2010-03-10T19:00:22Z

<div><p>As they scrambled recently to trace the source of a salmonella outbreak that has sickened hundreds around the country, investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention successfully used a new tool for the first time — the shopper cards that millions of Americans swipe every time they buy groceries.</p><p>With permission from the pati...

Food poisoning costs 152 billion dollars a year: US report

2010-03-04T12:16:33Z

<div><p>Some 76 million people fall ill from food poisoning each year in the United States, costing 152 billion dollars in medical costs and lost productivity, a new study has found.</p><p>The study issued Wednesday by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Reuters) - Foodborne illnesses cost the United States $152 billion in health-related expenses each year, far more than prior estimates, according to a study released by consumer and public health groups on Wednesday.</p><p>Food safety advocates are hoping the study will boost efforts in Congress to overhaul the nation's antiquated...

Study: Food-borne illnesses cost US $152 billion

2010-03-03T05:15:34Z

<div id="subtitle">New study estimates US health, other costs from food-borne illnesses are $152 billion</div><div><p>Food-borne illnesses, such as E. coli and salmonella, cost the United States $152 billion annually in health care and other losses, according to a report released Wednesday by a food safety group.</p><p>The report comes as the U.S. Senate...

More Infections From Salmonella Montevideo Outbreak

2010-02-20T00:15:21Z

<div id="subtitle">Ready-to-eat Italian style meats recalled</div><div><p>The number of people sickened by an outbreak of Salmonella Montevideo infections associated with certain Italian-style sausage products including salami/salame is on the rise.</p><p>The Centers for Disease Control and Preventi...

Sopressata recalled on possible salmonella exposure

2010-02-22T13:00:26Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Daniele Inc added more than 17,000 pounds of sopressata to an earlier recall of pepper-coated meats and ended its relationship with the spice supplier who gave it black pepper tied to a national salmonella outbreak.</p><p>The pepper, which was impo...

Daniele salami recalled over Salmonella concern

2010-02-22T15:57:25Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - Daniele Inc is recalling about 1.24 million pounds (562,500 kg) of pepper-coated salami and other meat products that may be contaminated with Salmonella, the U.S. Department of Agriculture...

The Dos and Don'ts of Food Safety

2010-02-22T17:54:55Z

<div><p>You think you have a stomach of steel—until you get a bad bout of food poisoning, that is. And while you may be tempted to throw caution to the wind, food borne illness can be serious business. According to the American Dietetic Association (ADA), millions of people are sickened, 325,000 are hospitalized and 5,000 die each year from food poisoning. So when you're lending ...

Food-borne ills can have lasting consequences: report

2010-02-24T06:14:56Z

<div><p>CHICAGO (Reuters) - More than just a bad bout of stomach flu, some food-borne illnesses can cause long-term consequences, especially for young people, a report released on Thursday has found.</p><p>Researchers at the Cente...

How to Avoid Food Poisoning

2010-02-25T17:07:04Z

If you have ever had food poisoning, then you know how awful it is to have it. Many people describe it as feeling like they are ?dying?. Food poisoning comes in all different varieties just like a jar of salsa: it can be mild all the way up to pretty serious where the ambulance may have to be called. Yes, you can actually die from food poisoning.<br><br>Food poisoning typically occurs when your body doesn't ?agree? with something that you have eaten. In all actuali...

Striving for safer food

2010-02-25T22:48:35Z

<div id="subtitle">House bill would give FDA more authority to prevent and react to bacterial outbreaks</div><div><p> Anyone who has ever had food poisoning knows how painful the experience can be. Even mild cases cause severe discomfort and more serious cases result in days of agony and sometimes death.</p><p>The chances of getting food poisoning are far too great. The federal government estimates that 76Êmillio...

Salmonella outbreak strikes 27, prompts beef recall

2010-02-25T22:59:41Z

<div><p>LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - At least 27 people, most of them in Colorado, have fallen ill from a salmonella outbreak that prompted the recall of more than 800,000 pounds (360,000 kg) of ground beef in 12 states, federal and state officials said on Friday.</p><p>Raw hambur...

Salmonella Outbreak

2009-07-31T09:46:24Z

In this 2008 file photograph provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), under a magnification of 5000X, this colorized scanning photomicrograph shows numbers of clustered Gram-negative Salmonella Typhimurium bacteria, the type linked to the salmonella outbreak that resulted in the recall of more than 1,500 foods. The head of Kellogg, the world's biggest cer...

A Short Primer on Foodborne Illness and Injury Legal Issues For Consumers

2010-02-27T07:15:38Z

<p>A Short Primer on Foodborne Illness and Injury Legal Issues For Consumers</p><p>By Mike Coren</p><p></p><p>Foodborne illness and related economic injury has become a very large and vitally pressing national level problem. Indeed, the degree, breadth and frequency of foodborne illness and injury are quite staggering. News reports and alerts about wide-scale outbreaks of food poisoning or recall...

94 Ill in Suspected Food Poisoning Case in China

2009-05-01T08:59:14Z

Apr 29, 2009 - Lanzhou, Gansu, China - Local health authorities said 94 people from 3 villages in NW China's Gansu Province were evaluated for food poisoning. The authorities in Yuzhong County, which administers the villages, said 28 of those people were hospitalized and 44 more were under observation. No deaths have been reported so far. The problem...

Minnesota man's family sues over his death

2010-03-01T13:08:38Z

<div id="subtitle">Family of 78-year-old Minnesota man sues peanut butter company over his death</div><div><p>The family of a 78-year-old man whose death may be linked to the widespread peanut butter salmonella outbreak has sued an Ohio company in connection with his death.</p><p>The family of

Salmonella Pistachios

2009-04-03T15:06:18Z

Close up of pistachios at a grocery store in Palo Alto, Calif., Tuesday, March 31, 2009. Federal food safety officials warned Monday that consumers should stop eating all foods containing pistachios while they figure out the source of a possible salmonella contamination. The company at the center of a nationwide pistachio recall says the salmonella contamination could have come from raw nuts dur...

Salmonella Outbreak Food Safety Confusion

2009-04-21T19:17:55Z

in this Feb. 4, 2009, file photo Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., speaks during a news conference regarding the peanut butter salmonella outbreak and the proposed Food Safety Modernization Act on Capitol Hill in Washington. At right is Jeff Almer, whose mother died as a result ...

Food poisoning strikes 1 in 4 Americans each year

2010-03-01T15:22:59Z

<div id="subtitle">Reality check: 1 in 4 Americans fall ill from food poisoning each year</div><div><p>Next time you have a case of diarrhea that lasts a day or more, chances are better than 1 in 3 that it was food poisoning. As many as a quarter of Americans suffer a foodborne illness each year — though only a fraction of those cases get linked to high-profile outbreaks like the recent salmonella-peanut scare, according to the

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