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Toxic plant caused illness and death in China

By News Desk on December 28, 2022

Ten people were sick and one died in China this past year after eating a toxic plant.

The food poisoning was caused by the wild plant Anisodus tanguticus, which contains tropane alkaloids.

The outbreak occurred in…

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Food aid incident was largest known outbreak from tropane alkaloids

By Joe Whitworth on May 6, 2022

Researchers have provided more details about an outbreak traced to contaminated food aid in Uganda in 2019 that killed five people.

It was the largest documented outbreak caused by food contamination with tropane alkaloids, according…
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Frozen spinach linked to as many as 100 illnesses in Slovakia; recall underway

By News Desk on March 31, 2021

Deep frozen spinach puree has been linked to a foodborne outbreak in Slovakia.

Authorities have not said how many people were affected by tropane alkaloid poisoning but figures in local media vary from a dozen…
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Experts help WFP after food aid outbreak

By News Desk on December 2, 2020

An expert group on tropane alkaloids that gathered after an outbreak traced to contaminated food aid in Uganda has published its findings.

In 2019, 315 people were ill and five died after eating “Super Cereal”…
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Problems found at Turkish Super Cereal food aid supplier

By Joe Whitworth on November 20, 2020

A review has highlighted issues at a Turkish factory that supplied food aid implicated in a deadly outbreak in Uganda that sickened hundreds this past year.

Problems in the processing plant involved poor quality raw…
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Researchers show Ugandan outbreaks caused by single batch of food aid

By Joe Whitworth on October 13, 2020

Scientists have shone a light on the cause of multiple serious and fatal food poisoning incidents in Uganda in 2019. They found all three outbreaks were caused by a single batch of a type of…
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WFP asks for help to prevent repeat of tropane alkaloid outbreaks

By Joe Whitworth on May 1, 2020

The World Food Program (WFP) has requested assistance from the FAO and WHO on tropane alkaloids after five people died in Uganda this past year from contaminated food aid.

The United Nations agency wanted the…
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Tropane alkaloids caused Ugandan food aid outbreaks

By Joe Whitworth on November 1, 2019

International investigations have found two outbreaks of illness in Uganda were likely caused by food aid contaminated with tropane alkaloids.

Five people died and about 300 fell sick after eating Super Cereal distributed in Karamoja…
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Norway finds tropane and pyrrolizidine alkaloids in food samples

By News Desk on September 14, 2019

Atropine was detected in four of 14 samples of cereal-based foods intended for children, according to a survey last year by the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet).

Another tropane alkaloid, scopolamine, was detected in two…
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Greenyard recalls green beans for jimson weed risk; may close facility

By Joe Whitworth on March 19, 2019

Greenyard Frozen France has recalled frozen green beans because they could contain parts of a poisonous plant commonly known as jimsom weed or jimsonweed.

The scientific name of the plant is Datura stramonium and it…
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