As a result of food poisoning 4 victims have been hospitalized, one of which died. The cause for food intoxication was the use of homemade canned peppers. The family members had eaten the canned peppers on October 26th. 24 hours after the intake, one of the family members felt typical symptoms of botulism, while for the rest of the family the symptoms emerged on the 3rd day. The first victim was taken to Armenia Republican Medical Center, where he died yesterday. The other members of the family are still receiving treatment.
Mondelēz Canada is recalling certain date codes of Mr. Christie’s brand Arrowroot Biscuits from the marketplace due to potential off-taste. Consumers should not consume the recalled products described below.
Mr. Christie’s Arrowroot Biscuits, 350 g, Best Before 2017 MR 01, UPC: 0 66721 01046 9
Mr. Christie’s Arrowroot Biscuits, 3.6 kg- 300x 12 g (2-pack), Best Before 2017 MA 13, UPC: 1 00 66721 51404 9
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There have been reported illnesses associated with the consumption of these products.
And that’s not a happy M. Christie baby. This is a happy baby, with one of my daughters, and I take credit for my grandson’s curls, but they probably belong to their dad.
Whenever I talk about Kansas, I think of a couple of times Amy and I went off the regular roads, and saw all kinds of pioneer homesteads, long abandoned but probably built about the 1820s.
Given the weather of Kansas, I would speculate, it’s no wonder so many crazy religions came from this place, because the finger of god – tornadoes – would descend without warning, super heat, super cold, and it wasn’t like anyone could go to Wal-Mart and restock.
It was probably terrifying.
I also recall how an astounding professor who’s class I got to TA for a couple of years – genetics for arts students – would begin every semester by citing Christian scripture and then describe the genetic ailment (he also said the Christian bible was a fairytale, because a woman – XX – could only have a female offspring and still be a virgin).
Vampires are the same way.
Stephen Dowling of the BBC writes diseases were frightening things before the age of medical science. Plagues and epidemics could appear without warning and cause death and misery (I’m thinking Jesus time and Kansas, 1820).
It wasn’t just plagues. Other diseases – perhaps passed on by animals or from genes lying dormant in their own bodies – could cause ailments that defied explanation.
People turned instead to the supernatural. Some of these diseases helped spawn one of the most enduring and widespread monster myths in civilisation – the vampire.
The vampire – an undead figure who rises each night from his unquiet grave to feast on the blood of the living – has appeared since the time of the Ancient Greeks. While some of the sage old philosophers we still admire today might have lived into their 70s, life expectancy in Ancient Greece was thought to be around 28; centuries before sanitation, refrigeration and antibiotics, diseases were more prevalent and were far more likely to take people to an early grave.
But without a microscope to study these tiny assailants, communities in older times saw the hand of the supernatural in many diseases.
Author Roger Luckhurst, who edited Oxford World’s Classic’s reprint of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, has researched the conditions which spread the belief in vampires, showing that the myth began to gain popularity in the early 18th Century. “The first mention of the word vampire in the English language is in the 1730s, in newspapers which carry reports from the edge of Europe, of bodies being dug up and looking bloated, and having fresh blood around their mouths. They report that these stories have come from peasants, but they make them sound very plausible.”
When calamity struck these rural areas – plague, cattle dying – many would point the finger at an undead spirit preying on the living. Often the first act would be to dig up the last person who had died in the village. And that leads us to another problem – medical science was in such infancy, that even telling if a person had died wasn’t exactly foolproof. Diseases such as catalepsy, which put people into a catatonic state so deep that their pulse was hard to detect, meant some were buried alive. If they awoke, some were driven so mad with fear and hunger that they would bite themselves – an explanation, perhaps, for some of the corpses found with fresh blood.
Most people in these communities kept animals; the villages themselves were usually close to forests and woodlands home to many other animals. Before vaccination was discovered, rabies, now virtually unknown in the European wild, was common. Once symptoms – which include aversion to light and water, aggression, biting and delirium – developed, death was inevitable. There is no cure.
“Rabies is obviously where we get the link to the werewolf, too,” says Luckhurst. “People were turned feral by this contact with animals. There is a degree of folk wisdom in the werewolf myth, a warning for people not to connect yourself too much to the natural world. You had to remember your humanity.”
There are many cultures around the world – in different continents and at different times – that share the myth of the bloodsucking undead. There are manananggal in the Philippines, and the peuchen of Chile; the Baobhan Sith of Scotland and the Yara-ma-yha-who of indigenous Australian tribes.
Essentially, the vampire myth comes from more than just disease, says Luckhurst. The vampire always seems to come from somewhere outside of the comforts of our own homes – be that a rural Transylvanian cottage, an English stately home or Ancient Athens.
“It always comes from somewhere else; in Ancient Greece the barbarians from beyond the Greek world were cannibals and bloodsuckers, and able to do all sorts of black magic that they were weren’t. In other places, it was the pagan tribes.” Even in South America, he says, the vampiric creatures the Incas believed in were from the wilds beyond their cities.
The vampire seems to be a vehicle not just for the diseases that we were not able to comprehend, but for all those strange, unmapped places and the people that live in them too.
Craig Barritt of Le Monde.fr, reports a small metal wire in a coq au vin could be very expensive to the famous French chef Daniel Boulud: one of his New York restaurants was ordered to pay $ 1.3 million in damages to a customer who had be emergency surgery after swallowing.
The client, Barry Brett, had gone with his wife on 28 February 2015, the restaurant Bistro Moderne, on 44th Street, near Times Square in Manhattan, where he ordered a coq au vin.
Mr. Brett soon felt a foreign object in the throat and had to leave the restaurant, according to the complaint registered on 15 April, seen by AFP.
He had gone to the emergency where he had surgery. The surgeon had identified the object as a wire of 2.5 cm in length, from a cleaning brush. An infection could be fatal, according to his lawyers.
In a ruling Thursday, the New York court found that the restaurant had been “negligent” and sentenced him to pay $ 1.3 million in damages – including 1 million for pain and suffering – Mr. Brett plus 11,000 dollars to his wife.
The restaurant known for its chic bistro-style kitchen, and for launching the “gourmet” burgers in 2001, declined to comment.
According to the lawyer of the institution, J.P. Bottari, the defendant is considering appeals against this judgment, mainly against the moral damage. “It was not intentional,” said the lawyer told AFP, saying that hurt feelings could be withheld if the defendant acted knowingly.
He said, as he had done during the trial, Barry Brett had waited four days before going to the hospital, which had contributed greatly to aggravate his condition.
Counsel for Barry Brett, Elizabeth Eilender, expressed her “very satisfied” that the jury recognized the severity of injuries his client and recalled “how he (was) dangerous to use a brush metal near food. “
For her, “the restaurant has never wanted to take responsibility” and, instead, “sought to overwhelm the victim.”
Daniel Boulud appeared last year in the ranking of the magazine Le Chef 100 chefs in the world, “in which he must have been” in 36th position. It has ten restaurants in New York, including “Daniel”, the most famous, and twenty restaurants across the world.
The recalled products were all distributed for sale to and use in food service establishments nationwide — not for use in food products offered for retail sale to consumers. Nonetheless, ICAPP is issuing this news release publicly to help mitigate any possible risk to the public health and to fully ensure that all recalled products are recovered. Although none of ICAPP’s own testing through an established surveillance program or through third party testing of retained samples has identified the presence of Hepatitis A in any of its products, ICAPP has decided to recall all frozen strawberries that it has imported into the United States since January 1, 2016 out of an abundance of caution.
No other ICAPP products, frozen or fresh, are covered by this voluntary recall.
ICAPP is conducting this voluntary recall after learning that frozen strawberries that it distributed may be linked to a recent Hepatitis A outbreak in the United States. ICAPP has been engaged with FDA in its investigation of this outbreak and is taking this action in consultation with FDA because Hepatitis A virus was detected in four lots of frozen strawberries that were exported to the U.S. by ICAPP. ICAPP is working closely with all of the U.S. distributors of this product to ensure that this recall is effective.
ICAPP is fully committed to producing safe and high quality products; consumer safety is its top priority. ICAPP is conducting a comprehensive review of all of its operations and its suppliers to ensure that the food it produces is safe. ICAPP continues to work closely with federal and state authorities and is conducting this recall in cooperation with FDA.
For questions or more information, consumers may contact ICAPP by email at customerservice@icapp.com.eg or by phone, between 9:00 am and 5:00 pm Cairo local time, at +201-541-1624.
Kaitlyn Schwers and Don O’Brien of the Belleville News-Democrat report the St. Clair County Health Department and the Illinois Department of Public Health are looking into reported cases of salmonella nearly a month after the chili cook-off was held downtown.
The county health department said it learned on Saturday that less than a dozen cases of salmonella had been confirmed by the state department of health through lab testing. Since then, the county health department said it has followed up with those individuals, who included some from St. Clair County, other area counties and at least one from Missouri, according to the health department’s executive director, Barb Hohlt. Hohlt said in those cases, individuals had said they attended the chili cook-off on Oct. 8.
“The individuals had went to their medical provider, and from there, subsequent testing was done,” Hohlt said.
Hohlt said the health department does not know the source of the outbreak and is still investigating the incident.
Wendy Pfeil, executive director of the Greater Belleville Chamber of Commerce, had estimated that around 60,000 people attended the two-day event last month. Previous reports said 46 food vendors competed in the chili cook-off, and more than 60 were at the event.
Hohlt said health department officials inspected all of the vendors prior to the event. She said the Chamber of Commerce has a checklist that it provides to each vendor to make sure everything is sanitized as well.
The very first ‘One Health Day’ will be organized on 3 November 2016 across the globe. It is held to promote a change in the assessment of global health challenges and how to address them, and aims to ‘bring global attention to the need for One Health interactions’. It is intended as ‘a day of declaration and action wherever possible to bring global attention to the crucial need and benefits of using trans-disciplinary approaches to complex challenges involving animals, people, and planetary ecosystems’.
One Health Day is organised by three international One Health groups: the One Health Commission, the One Health Initiative Autonomous pro bono Team and the One Health Platform Foundation.
The ‘One Health Initiative’ was first started in April 2007 when the American Veterinary Medical Association formed the One Health Initiative Task Force. The link between human infectious diseases and zoonoses is frequently underlined on the many sites forming the One Health initiative as ‘nearly 75 percent of all emerging human infectious diseases in the past three decades originated in animals’.
My high school friend and I outlined a book 40 years ago called, North of the 49th Parallel, about suburban Canada.
But Mike Myers seems to have cornered the market.
And when did he become my father?
He’s the same age as me.
And from Toronto (Scarberia).
Canadians have a “very thick” accent and only anger easily at hockey, if you ask comedian Mike Myers.
“We’re very politically correct at times and I always think, well, isn’t politically correct just being considerate and nice for the most part?” he told CBC’s Wendy Mesley in an interview on The National.
The Canadian actor and comedian shared a lot of opinions about his home country found in his new book called Canada. Naturally, Canadian versus American pronunciations came up in conversation.
“It’s Owt, Owt” Myers jokes in his typical comic style, pointing to how Americans say “out.”
While he argues that, compared to Britain and the U.S., Canada doesn’t have as many cultural exports besides Anne of the Green Gables, Canada’s contributions have a higher purpose.
“I think civility will be our greatest legacy.”
Or false egomania.
The University of Guelph is going to get $76 million to bring big data to farming.
Except.
The money is earmarked for the university’s masterfly earmarked, Food from Thought program. The program’s scientific director, Evan Fraser, says that farmers are only on the cusp of what can be done with big data.
“Where the tools of data-driven agriculture allow for much more precise, real-time applications of inputs, we can reduce input costs while we increase production.”
“We know Canadian food is among the safest and most sustainable in the world and with these technologies we can demonstrate it.”
If you already know it, why do you have to demonstrate it?
If Guelph wants serious money for this stuf, they need to do much more serious communications.
Unfortunately, like most universities, PR fluffery has overtaken actual accomplishment.
At St Albans Crown Court yesterday, judge Andrew Bright described hygiene standards at the Khyber Balti House in Market Place as “lamentable”, and 41-year-old Mohammed Kemal Hussain as “incapable of running a business involved in serving food”.
Hussain, of Dragon Way, Hatfield, was fined £23,000 for 23 food safety offences, and ordered to pay costs of £12,366 to the borough council.
When the outbreak was first reported, the UK National Farmer’s Union reassured people that petting farms are safe as long as hygiene rules are followed and that they should continue to go despite the E. coli outbreak.
Not quite.
You people are assholes.
There have been outbreaks where pathogens have been aerosolized and that handwashing was not a significant control factor.
In 2014, a UK court heard that four children suffered potentially life-threatening kidney failure after an E. coli outbreak at a Lancashire farm shop.
Huntley’s Country Stores, near Preston, admitted health and safety breaches at a lambing event in April 2014.
The four children needed life-saving kidney dialysis with one needing three operations and blood transfusions.
The farming attraction was fined £60,000 and told to pay £60,000 costs at Preston Crown Court on Monday.
In total, 15 people were struck down by the bug – 13 of them children – with nine needing hospital treatment. A further 15 possible cases were also recorded.
The court heard the tragically typical litany of errors:
visitors allowed uncontrolled access to lambs – children could enter animal pens and roll in feces-covered straw;
during bottle-feeding, lambs were allowed to climb onto seats, leaving them soiled with feces;
pens had open bar gates allowing contaminated bedding to spill onto main visitor area;
animals were densely packed, allowing bacteria build-up; and,
hand washing basins meant for visitors were used to clean animal feeding dishes.
Juliette Martin, of Clitheroe, took her daughter Annabelle, 7, to the ‘Lambing Live’ event at Easter in 2014.
The youngster, who had bottle-fed a lamb, suffered kidney failure and needed three operations, three blood transfusions and 11 days of dialysis.
Mrs Martin said: “If we ever thought that by feeding lambs that our daughter would be fighting for her life we would never have visited Huntley’s.”
The latest count is more than 20 children ill from the 2014 visit, and the owners of Huntley’s Country Stores still owe more than £100,000 after being convicted of health and safety offences in December 2015.
Managing director Harry Wilson appeared before Blackburn magistrates to ask for more time to pay the financial penalties.
Magistrates were told that the outfit had repaid £14,800 of the court costs, leaving £45,120 outstanding. But the £60,000 fine was still owed, the court was told.
Mr Wilson told magistrates that the after effects of the publicity surrounding the E.coli case, which was brought by South Ribble Council, were still being felt by the business.
Questioned by magistrates about how the outstanding sums could be met, he said: “At the present moment we cannot afford any more because we are just starting to get the business going. It might be two years before we recover.”
Huntley’s had been previously ordered to pay £5,000 every three months.
Magistrates ordered that they should be required to find £1,000 every month instead, up to and including May 2017. The penalty would then resume at its previous rate.
As a result of food poisoning 4 victims have been hospitalized, one of which died. The cause for food intoxication was the use of homemade canned peppers. The family members had eaten the canned peppers on October 26th. 24 hours after the intake, one of the family members felt typical symptoms of botulism, while for the rest of the family the symptoms emerged on the 3rd day. The first victim was taken to Armenia Republican Medical Center, where he died yesterday. The other members of the family are still receiving treatment. 
