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NSW agency releases annual food testing figures

By News Desk on September 4, 2020

More than 4,000 samples were taken during efforts to investigate outbreaks, according to an Australian state’s annual food testing report for 2018 and 2019.

The New South Wales (NSW) Food Authority reported 4,010 food and…
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Weather played role in deadly Australian Listeria melon outbreak

By Joe Whitworth on October 13, 2018

An investigation into a Listeria outbreak in Australia linked to seven deaths has found the weather played a significant role in contamination.

The outbreak from rockmelons, known as cantaloupe in North America, affected 22 people…
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Timeline on Australian listeriosis outbreak has yet to expire

By Dan Flynn on March 21, 2018

A woman who lived into her 90s in the Australian province of New South Wales (NSW) has become the sixth fatality in a rockmelon-caused listeriosis outbreak. With her death, the outbreak’s fatality rate is approaching…
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Another Listeria death recorded; Australian ‘discussion’ is weak

By Douglas Powell on March 8, 2018
Editor’s note: This opinion column was originally posted on barfblog.com on March 7, 2018.

I’ve always believed in don’t complain, create.

When I didn’t like the university newspaper I was editor of, I created my

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