I was nostalgic yesterday and while working I flipped to 1954’s The Glenn Miller Story with James Stewart.
I always wanted to learn how to dance swing.
But food safety and hockey got in the way, so I’m left to present the message from the suit at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, as reported in The Chattanoogan, who said last week after 25 were sickened with a mixture of Salmonella and Campylobacter that, don’t worry kids, chicken will be back on the menu.
The number of students reporting these symptoms has dropped dramatically, and we continue to work with Health Department officials to monitor the situation.
WKRP in Cincinnati station manager Arthur Carlson once asked Andy and Jennifer to pose for a fundraising calendar, or something.
Arthur: This year’s theme? Surf City USA.
Jennifer: In Cincinnati, Ohio?
Similarly, I never thought of Chattanooga, Tennessee, as a beacon for raw oysters. But, the local health unit reports that three unassociated groups of people who ate oysters at The Boathouse Rotisserie and Raw Bar (located at 1011 Riverside Dr.) became ill. A total of 19 people reported illness after eating at the restaurant between Monday, Jan. 12, and Sunday, Jan. 18, and developed symptoms such as nausea, vomiting and diarrhea 12-40 hours after eating. The majority of those ill reported eating raw oysters.
Following standard protocol, the Health Department conducted an investigation to determine the cause of the illness. The establishment fully cooperated with the Health Department’s procedures. Inspection of the restaurant along with interviews with and testing of foodhandlers at The Boathouse Rotisserie and Raw Bar did not implicate those persons or the restaurant as a source of infection.
Seventy-five percent of those tested were positive for norovirus. Confirmed by the Food and Drug Administration, the illnesses have been linked to raw shell oysters harvested off of the coast of Mississippi. Under advisement of the FDA, the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources is advising consumers not to eat oysters harvested from Conditionally Approved Area 2 “C” Shellfish Growing Waters in Mississippi from Jan. 5-9. These oysters may be contaminated with norovirus. …
Oysters cultivated in coastal areas close to human activities can be contaminated by human sewage, which can spread different types of viruses, including noroviruses.
I always wanted to learn how to dance swing.
Arthur: This year’s theme? Surf City USA.