food poisoning

Finally! FDA’s New Food-Safety Rules

Posted on 01/7/2013 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthSo here’s a brilliant idea: If you want to keep fresh fruits and vegetables from becoming contaminated and making people sick, how about making sure that workers wash their hands, crops are irrigated with unpolluted water, processing equipment stays clean and animals are kept away from crops? Sounds simple, but it’s taken years for the government, consumers and the food industry to agree on how to enforce these things. Last week, two years to the day after Congress passed landmark …

Sandy’s Damage Also Includes Health Dangers

Posted on 11/2/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthContaminated water, questionable food and toxic mold are just some of the health problems left by Hurricane Sandy’s trail of destruction along the East Coast. Public health officials told National Public Radio that residents in areas devastated by the superstorm face several risks, not the least of which is polluted floodwater. Water that filled people’s basements and garages could contain a nasty mix of chemicals, pesticides, paint, gasoline and all the other things that people typically store in those areas, …

Sprouts Are Out: Kroger Stops Selling Them Due to Health Risk

Posted on 10/23/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthSo tiny, yet so deadly. That’s the verdict on raw sprouts — from the mung bean sprouts used in Chinese stir-fry dishes to the threadlike alfalfa or clover sprouts often added to sandwiches —which have caused dozens of food poisoning outbreaks in the past two decades. The government’s been trying for 14 years to get growers to do a better job of reducing contamination, but hasn’t been too successful. So finally, retailers are just deciding not to sell the teeny …

Check Your Fridge: Bagged Dole Lettuce Recalled in 15 States

Posted on 04/18/2012 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthYou may need to toss that tossed salad. Dole Food Co. is recalling nearly 800 cases of bagged Seven Lettuces salad in 15 states because they could be contaminated with salmonella. The Dole Seven Lettuces salad being recalled is marked with a use-by date of April 11, 2012 and Product Codes 0577N089112A or 0577N089112B, both of which can be found in the upper right corner of the package. It is also identified by the UPC code 71430 01057, located on …

In The Raw: The Culprit In Cookie Dough Contamination

Posted on 12/12/2011 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthHoliday baking is in full force, but don’t be tempted to nibble on that raw cookie dough. Especially you, ladies. Two years ago, eating Nestle Toll House raw cookie dough sickened 77 people in 30 states, most of them women and adolescent girls. It was the first time packaged cookie dough had ever caused food poisoning. Now a lengthy investigation into that outbreak has found a likely — and surprising — culprit: The flour. After Nestle recalled 3.6 million packages …

Tainted Turkey: Have You Checked Your Freezer?

Posted on 08/8/2011 by | Personal Health and Well-being | Comments

Bulletin Today | Personal HealthIn the wake of one of the nation’s largest food recalls  – 36 million pounds of ground turkey suspected of salmonella contamination — federal health officials are urging consumers to check their freezers for ground turkey they may have bought weeks or months ago and to toss any packages that are now on the recall list. Because the contaminated products, including turkey patties and seasoned ground turkey, were produced between Feb. 20 and Aug. 2 of this year, consumers may …

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