She thought she was dying.
That’s how New York City realtor Penny Penzner felt last summer when she became violently ill from what she thought might be some cut-up fruit she had bought at a nearby deli.
Late that night, she woke up feeling sick — very sick. She ran
Continue Reading Washington state launches reporting system for victims of foodborne illnesses
Researchers are using text mining technology to analyze comments and reviews to improve the traceability of and communication about risky food products.
In a new study published by the journal “Risk Analysis” the research team proposes a new Food Safety Monitoring System (FSMS) that uses consumer comments posted
Continue Reading Researchers use iwaspoisoned.com and Amazon reviews to improve food safety
Researchers are using text mining and supervised machine learning to try and identify unique words and phrases in online posts that identify consumers’ interactions with hazardous food products.
The team of scientists from San Diego State University, Virginia Tech, Loyola Marymount University and Radford University, say they hope this will
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Patrick Quade, the crowdsourcing expert who founded iwaspoisoned.com has expanded beyond food safety with a health and safety community issue-reporting site that captures the public’s Covid-19 experiences.
Safely HQ is Quade’s second crowdsourcing platform. It operates separately from iwaspoisoned.com and it is collecting COVID-19 information from the public. Anyone signing
Continue Reading Crowdsourcing expands beyond food safety just in time for COVID-19 experiences
Editor’s note: The Orange County Health Care Agency provided the following statement to Food Safety News on June 24.
There are no regulatory requirements for length of closure period in relation to an ongoing foodborne illness outbreak investigation. The Orange County Health Care Agency Environmental Health Division conducted a thorough
Continue Reading Pita Hot allowed to reopen following reports of hundreds of customer illnesses
The crowd-sourcing site iwaspoisoned.com has again identified a restaurant that apparently has been making people sick, but there is not yet any official confirmation by local health authorities.
In the past seven days, almost 200 people have named Pita Hot on East Chapman Avenue in Fullerton, CA, as the suspected
Continue Reading Potentially hundreds sickened by Orange County restaurant’s food
The website iwaspoisoned.com, credited with helping to identify several high-profile foodborne illness outbreaks in recent years, has released an app designed to help people decide where to go when dining away from home.
The app identifies restaurants with recent reports of food poisoning. Another feature allows users to easily
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CHICAGO — A billion people can’t be wrong, right?
As it turns out, when it comes to food safety it doesn’t matter if they’re wrong. Once a product is associated with foodborne illnesses on social media sites it’s like striking a match in a straw house. Negative posts, shares, and
Continue Reading It’s here, get used to it
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue would make a great Jolly Old Elf. In fact, he’s looked upon as Santa Claus in about 300 congressional districts where a visit from the Secretary of Agriculture is an event much like Christmas morning.
The range and depth of the USDA bag of goodies
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For at least the third time this year, the crowd-sourced website iwaspoisoned.com has identified a foodborne illness outbreak, this time among students who ate at a Georgia Tech dining hall.
The “North Avenue Dining Hall” at the university in Atlanta started showing up in reports on the foodborne illness website
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