Alexa Nemeth is currently a student at Washington State University majoring in Pre-Law Political Science with minors in Philosophy and Business Administration. She is originally from Seattle is currently interested in pursuing Health Law. Alexa is a senior and will be applying to law schools this fall. She is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Fraternity for women and is involved in many on campus activities including Pre-law Society and Philosophy Club. Her favorite activity is running.
On Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Jillian Kohl, a thrifty graduate student at the time, ate a spinach salad. Several days later the 24-year-old marathon runner began feeling ill and called her mother, who recommended resting.By Monday, she was passing blood and had to be admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit.Kohl, sickened by E. coli O157:H7, was one of many...
It isn't uncommon for home gardeners in older cities to find a significant amount of lead in their backyard soil, so many build raised beds and bring in freshly composted soil to avoid the problem.That was exactly what The Food Project, an organization that promotes sustainable urban agriculture, did in the Boston communities of Roxbury and Dorchester, where yard soils...
To celebrate Thanksgiving here at Food Safety News we're hosting our fourth virtual potluck (we've also held virtual picnics on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day).We'll be having turkey, of course, and for tips on how to cook a turkey, you can't beat the Food and Drug Administration's Keep Food Safe Blog. For instance, did you procrastinators know...
In honor of Thanksgiving here at Food Safety News we're hosting our fourth virtual potluck (we've also held virtual picnics on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day).We'll be having turkey, of course, and for tips on how to cook a turkey, you can't beat the Food and Drug Administration's Keep Food Safe Blog. For instance, did you procrastinators...
A Kansas State University epidemiologist has received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to improve food safety by managing antibiotic resistance in beef and dairy cattle. H. Morgan Scott, a professor in Kansas State University's department of diagnostic medicine and pathology, said the research will focus on "the longstanding problem" of resistant enteric bacteria.Antibiotics are commonly...
With research suggesting that diets with inadequate sodium-to-magnesium and sodium-to-potassium ratios may be as much of a problem as diets with too much sodium, the Scoular Company has created Smart Salt, a product it says reduces sodium yet offers a healthy source of magnesium. According to Deborah Rolf, executive vice president, Americas-Smart Salt, Inc., USDA researchers have found that over...
Five persons were taken into custody in Berbice, Guyana, as health authorities investigated why more than 100 people became ill after having lunch at a community-policing retreat on Sunday.According to the Stabroek News, samples of the food and beverages served at the lunch were submitted for testing.About 350 people had attended the retreat at the Berbice High School. An...
A company that makes antimicrobial products, including highchairs and baby changing tables, says it found restaurant highchairs that were harboring more bacteria than public toilet seats.London's Daily Mail reported that Microban, which produces products with built-in microbial protection, took swab samples from highchairs in 30 restaurants and also from toilets. Nicholas Moon, the company's director of technical affairs, told the newspaper the average...
Each year 5.5 billion lunches and 2 billion breakfasts are served in schools in the United States, and The Center for Ecoliteracy sees each one of them as an opportunity to improve childhood nutrition.The Berkeley, CA-based center, a nonprofit dedicated to education for sustainable living, has proposed an endeavor called "Rethinking School Lunch," 10 ways (or pathways, as it refers to them) in...
Better use of information technology might help minimize the next big foodborne illness outbreak, says Daniel Castro of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF).Writing in the foundation's newsletter, Castro says IT innovations could help public health officials identify and trace outbreaks more quickly."For example, if a nationwide system of interoperable electronic health records were made available in real-time for...
People who fell ill after visiting the Russian pavilion at Winnipeg's Folklorama in August had likely eaten fruit compote contaminated with E. coli, according to the Winnipeg Health Authority. A report published by the Winnipeg Health Region said 37 of the 40 people who were infected with the same strain of E. coli had either attended events at the pavilion...
Information brought to light during hearings before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce has led to punitive damages being added to lawsuits against Quality Egg/Wright County of Iowa.The amended lawsuits were filed Monday by Marler Clark and Wandro, Baer, and McCarthy."At the hearings in Washington it became clear that the DeCoster family has operated its businesses with willful...
Five years after suffering brain damage from an intravenous food supplement prepared with too much magnesium, an Irish child died of complications due to pneumonia.Elaine Barrett, from Galway, was born prematurely in 2003. At less than six weeks old, while still in the hospital, she was given a special food supplement. According to the Irish Independent News, the supplement contained magnesium levels...
In an effort to support local farms and meet the demand for locally raised meat, the federal government has awarded an $800,000 grant toward the construction of a slaughterhouse in Liberty, NY, Meatingplace reported. Construction of the new $1.7 million, 5,000-square foot Southern Catskills Red Meat Processing Facility is expected to begin next spring. "This federal investment will create jobs,...
A restaurant in New South Wales, Australia had to pay a penalty when 170 people fell ill with Salmonella after eating there earlier this year. Investigators with the New South Wales Food Authority concluded that the cause of the January Salmonella outbreak at the Burger Bar in the town of Albury was a contaminated raw egg aioli product. The take-out...
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