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Sainsbury’s recalls beetroot over glass fears

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But, but mom, I don’t like beets.

A catch-phrase from my youth and I have no idea why, other than pickled beets were a staple of 1970s funky glassware along with pickled cucumbers and pickled onions.

Dinner at my parent’s house has its traditions.

I had some chicken pate and beets on crackers the other evening as an homage to my Danish carpenter friends, who would eat endless amounts of the stuff on rye bread.

I was chatting with a friend the other day, and we were remarking on the quality control from the ladies watching the beets in the past, to sophisticated glass and metal detectors in the present.

One of my better on-farm food safety tips for processing vegetables in Ontario about 2002 was, if you’re gonna shoot groundhogs, pick up the damn shell so it doesn’t end up in someone’s meal.

Sainsbury’s is recalling a batch of its Sliced Beetroot sold in jars as a “precautionary measure” because the product may contain small pieces of glass.

The presence of glass made the product unsafe to eat and presented a safety risk, according to the recall notice issued by the Food Standards Agency (FSA).

In its recall notice, the FSA advised consumers to return the product to the store from where it was bought for a full refund.

Sainsbury’s said it had identified the possible presence of small pieces of glass in one batch of its Sliced Beetroot product.

‘But, but mom, I don’t like beets’: Asda in UK recalls beetroot in botulism warning

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It was one of our go-to phrases growing up, and I have no idea why.

pickle.dishProbably because beets were a staple of the 1970s funky glassware along with pickles and pickled onions.

Customers of UK supermarket giant Asda have been warned not to eat jars of pickled beetroot amid fears they could contain botulism.

The recall affects a batch of 710g jars of ‘Asda Chosen By You Pickled Crinkle Cut Beetroot’.

Customers who have bought any of the jars have been warned not to eat it but to return it to a store.

It is not clear how the bacteria may have got into the jars, but a statement from the Food Standards Agency indicated measures to control the botulism toxin had not been demonstrated.

Who doesn’t buy canned beets from a gas station?

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It was somewhere around 2000 when Chapman accompanied me on a two-week whirlwind tour of Australia and New Zealand, speaking on a variety of topics, sampling kangaroo, and initially staying at a bed and breakfast in East Gippsland on a large winery that the owner, Owen, and his wife, moved to after the heart attack in the city.

beetroot.slices.recall.oct.14We thought Owen might have another at the dinner table.

I’d been invited by an ex-pat Canadian and had a chat with about 50 local farmers in the town pub.

But this is about beetroot.

There are some universal truths of travel, and one is that nothing beats an Egg McMuffin at 5 a.m. upon arrival in Melbourne after 30 hours on the move.

We probably had three each.

But I noticed the lunch menu and the inclusion of beetroot on the Big Macs.

What was a beetroot? The part of the beet that grows in the ground that North American’s call beets.

HJ Heinz Company Australia Limited has recalled Golden Circle Beetroot Slices from Coles, Woolworths, IGA, convenience stores and some petrol stations nationally due to the potential for microbial growth. Food products with microbial growth may cause illness if consumed. Any consumers concerned about their health should seek medical advice. The product can be returned to the place of purchase for a full refund.

That’s the only info available, but I’ve wanted to write for so long about beetroot.

Raw grated beetroot linked to several outbreaks of sudden-onset gastrointestinal illness, Finland 2010

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But, but mom, I don’t like beets.

My friends said that when I was a kid; I don’t know why, other than the beet’s ubiquitous presence on the 1970s relish tray at dinner.

Beetroot, or what North Americans call beets, are part of the Australian Big beets1Mac hamburger.

Best writing about beets? Tom Robbins in his 1984 novel, Jitterbug Perfume.

““The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly, is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity. Beets are deadly serious.”

“The beet is the melancholy vegetable, the one most willing to suffer. You can’t squeeze blood out of a turnip…”

“Slavic peoples get their physical characteristics from potatoes, their smoldering inquietude from radishes, their seriousness from beets.”

And foodborne illness.

Jacks et al report in Epidemiology and Infection that in 2010, 7/44 (16%) reported foodborne outbreaks in Finland were linked with raw beetroot consumption. We reviewed data from the national outbreak registry in order to hypothesize the aetiology of illness and to prevent further outbreaks. In the seven outbreaks, 124 cases among 623 respondents were identified. Consumption of raw beetroot was strongly associated with gastrointestinal illness (relative risk 8·99, 95% confidence interval 6·06–13·35). The illness was characterized by sudden onset of gastrointestinal jitterbug.perfume.robbinssymptoms; the median incubation time was 40 min and duration of illness 5 h. No common foodborne pathogens or toxins were found in either clinical or beetroot samples, but all tested beetroot samples were of poor quality according to total bacterial counts. Beta-haemolytic Pseudomonas fluorescens was detected in several beetroot samples but its effect on human health is unknown. No outbreaks were reported after the Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira advised against serving raw beetroot in institutional canteens.