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Disconnect between warnings & consumption – Raw milk
Despite numerous warnings from public health officials during the month of April about raw milk from various farms across the U.S. testing positive for the likes of Campylobacter (New York ), Listeria...
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UK schoolkids sickened after farm visit; ‘an absolutely fantastic visit’ says...
Cumbrian health chiefs have issued urgent advice about farm visits after confirming that four children were stricken by cryptosporidium, carried by cattle and lambs, and were investigating an...
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Sure kids can visit the farm, but should they be hugging the cows?
Yesterday I wrote about a bunch of schoolkids in Carlisle , U.K. that have been stricken with cryptosporidium, apparently related to so called-educational visits to nearby farms. Teachers and school...
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UK family farm closes after 8 get E. coli O157
Another reminder to play safe on the farm. An open farm in West Lancashire has been temporarily closed after eight people, including three children, were struck down with E.coli O157. One of the...
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William Shatner speaks out on salmon
Montreal-native William Shatner – Captain Kirk, Boston Legal dude, Priceline negotiator and spoken-word enthusiast — has written Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper asking that salmon farms be...
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Faith-based food safety
Michael Batz sent me a link to a story that took me on a magic carpet ride to the past (Batz also says he coined the term, ‘faith-based food safety’ but maybe he’s on his own magic carpet). As an...
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UK petting zoo E. coli O157 outbreak: 36 confirmed sick; 12 in hospital all...
It’s like people in the U.K. had never heard of E. coli O157. Despite outbreak after outbreak – often involving children at nurseries — public inquiries and a single food safety agency, the Brits just...
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E. coli backlash as UK health type apologies for delay in closing farm
With 13 kids in hospital and 37 sick after visiting a UK farm, Health Protection Agency chief executive Justin McCracken has phoned parents of the children most seriously affected to apologise to them....
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