The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for ready-to-eat meat and poultry products that were illegally imported from the Philippines.
The problem was discovered when FSIS was performing routine surveillance activities at a retailer and found meat and poultry products
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Distributed food aid is suspected to be behind more than 200 people falling sick in the Philippines.
Agusan del Sur health officials said 216 people had been treated in the hospital earlier this week with symptoms such as vomiting and stomach aches.
The incident is being treated as food poisoning
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A senator has called for the creation of an agency to deal with public health after almost 3,000 people fell ill in the Philippines.
Senator Win Gatchalian is co-author of the Philippine Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) Act, which seeks to create such an agency. The proposed center
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The Philippines has temporarily banned beef exports from the United Kingdom because of a case of classical Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), also known as mad cow disease.
The Department of Agriculture suspension covers the import of live cattle, meat and meat products from cattle.
The agency said classical BSE is
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Three studies have been published describing water and foodborne outbreaks in India and the Philippines.
The articles, in a supplement of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases, involve Salmonella, Hepatitis A and suspected anthrax. They are accepted conference abstracts that were to be presented at the International Congress on Infectious
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A government agency, industry association and the affected company in Brazil have responded to Chinese claims that a chicken wing sample has tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19.
Health authorities in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, noted the detection of coronavirus nucleic acid on the surface of a frozen chicken
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Anyone who has not been vaccinated for Hepatitis A and has eaten imported yellowfin tuna in the past two weeks — especially if they live in California, Oklahoma, New York or Texas — should consider getting a post-exposure prophylactic shot for the virus.
That recommendation from public health officials with
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More than 90,000 people received the first shot of a two-injection Hepatitis A vaccination in the second half of 2016, and that means more than 90,000 follow-up injections are coming due in the Aloha State.
More than two-and-a-half times as many people in Hawaii took Hepatitis A vaccinations this past
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New York officials have warned the public to not eat Phil Am branded smoked mackerel — Hasa Hasa — because it was not eviscerated and could contain spores that cause botulism poisoning.
The fish is a product of the Philippines and is sold by the Asian Supermarket Group Inc. of
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Two Hepatitis A victims have died in the outbreak in Hawaii that was traced to frozen scallops imported from the Philippines and served raw at Genki Sushi restaurants on Oahu and Kauai.
A spokesman for the Hawaii Department of Health confirmed the two deaths Thursday. He said one of the
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