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How to avoid poisoning from red beans

By Jonan Pilet on May 3, 2021

Cooking your own beans is a great way to save money, reduce waste and lower your sodium consumption, but eating improperly cooked beans can lead to serious illness. This is especially true for kidney beans.
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Red kidney beans linked to poisoning cases in Denmark

By Joe Whitworth on July 8, 2020

A type of lectin in red kidney beans was behind an outbreak in Denmark earlier this year.

Poisoning left 45 people sick, including 24 on one day, in late April. It was limited to a…
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Norovirus top cause of outbreaks in Denmark

By News Desk on October 16, 2019

More than 60 foodborne outbreaks with 1,600 patients were reported in Denmark this past year, according to recently released data.

Three large incidents caused one quarter of the outbreak illnesses. In 2017, 63 outbreaks were…
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Tomatoes linked to Salmonella outbreak in Sweden; 71 infected

By Joe Whitworth on October 10, 2019

Tomatoes are the probable source of a Salmonella outbreak in Sweden that affected 70 people, according to public health officials.

Folkhälsomyndigheten (Public Health Agency of Sweden) identified 71 infections from 11 counties that belonged to…
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Norovirus most often responsible for foodborne outbreaks in Finland

By Joe Whitworth on July 19, 2019

More than 130 foodborne outbreaks were recorded in Finland between 2014 and 2016, according to a recent report.

Data comes from a register of foodborne and waterborne outbreaks maintained by the former Finnish Food Safety…
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One ill in Sweden due to mislabeled beans; favism suspected

By Joe Whitworth on October 19, 2018

One person in Sweden has fallen ill after incorrectly preparing chickpeas and beans that were not labelled correctly.

Sweden issued a Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) notification after a report from the…
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