Food Fight

Today, The Center For Science in the Public Interest (CSPI)released the conclusions of a study conducted since 1990 in which scientists kept a record of the number of outbreaks and the number of reported...

E. coli Alert: President's Choice Meat Recalled

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has recalled President's Choice meat products, fearing they may contain E. coli. A news release published on Tuesday, June 30th, said that beef products such as steaks, roasts and ground beef may all be contaminated with E....

Nestle Cookie Dough Recall: Toll House Cookie Dough E. Coli Scare

Nestle has recalled its Toll House cookie dough, after 25 people were hospitalized with E. coli bacterial infection from eating the raw cookie dough. The FDA advises anyone who has Toll House cookie dough to discard...

Certain Safeway lean ground beef may contain E. coli O157:H7 Bact

Batches of lean ground beef prepared for Safeway, Canada may contain the mutant form of E. coli that causes hamburger disease.  This variant --  E. coli 0157:H7 can cause serious and life threatening illness.The ground beef was prepared by Vantage Foods out of...

E. coli 0157:H7 Has Been Delivered To Your Grocery Store

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a health warning regarding the possible contamination of ground beef by E. coli bacteria.  The strain is 0157:H7, the one that can cause multiple organ failure...

E. coli Outbreak in Southern Ontario

Ontario has a new outbreak of E. coli contamination.  Humans carry approximately 3 million E. coli bacteria in a healthy lower intestine, but if the bacteria are ingested, they can cause massive...

E. Coli outbreak in Oklahoma sickens 200 - kills 1

Another E. Coli outbreak has hit the US.  More than 200 people have become ill after eating from the Country Cottage restaurant in Locust Grove, Okalahoma.  "An E. coli outbreak linked to a restaurant...

Nebraska beef recalled

E. coli seems to be in everything these days, as a quick Google search reveals. This time it's beef. A lot of beef."The total amount now in the recall is about 1.36 million pounds of beef, and includes beef that was produced on June 24, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection...

E. Coli Cases Traced to Whole Foods Beef

Time and time again, we've seen that organic, natural, andwhole foods are just as prone to contamination from infectious bacteria such as salmonella and E. coli.Seven cases of E. coli contamination have now been...

E. Coli Fear Causes Meat Recall Strikes 11 States

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is recalling meat from Chicago based Morreale Meat beef products.  There have been no illnesses from the meat."The meat being recalled is used in ground beef products....

San Francisco InterFaith Winter Shelter Said 'No Christmas Breakfast' to home...

Homeless Guests were denied a Christmas breakfast and worse, while staying at San Francisco's Interfaith Winter Shelter, located at St. Mary's Cathedral, 1111 Gough St, being operated by ECS (Episcopal Community...

SFHomeless Yahoo! Group Wiki-Updated- Homeless Health Alert !

The SFHomeless Yahoo! Group's Wiki has been updated with a new Health Alert! news story about homeless San Franciscan residents at a winter shelter that were served 'breakfast' that were actually leftovers that were 36 hours old.   The potentially bacteria laden...

Petting Zoo Blues: Barnyard Exhibits Are Bad for Both People and Animals

If you’re planning on attending your local fair or carnival this season, be sure that barnyard animals are not part of the festivities. Petting zoos are not only inhumane, they’re potentially deadly. At least...

Organic farming practices cause 200 food poisoning deaths

Organic advocates have worked themselves into a tizzy condemning meat from cloned cows and genetically modified crops -- which haven't caused a single stomach ache in a single person among the 300 million plus who have been eating this food for over 10 years -- organically...

E. coli fears fuel warning on fresh spinach in bags

"A possible link between bagged, fresh spinach and a recent outbreak of the E. coli bacteria in eight states prompted the Food and Drug Administration to warn consumers Thursday afternoon to not eat the vegetable. "

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