Harvest Meats is recalling its Harvest brand Polish sausage from six Canadian provinces because company officials found it was undercooked. The recall notice does not indicate how much of the sausage is involved.
“Consumers should not consume the recalled product described below. This recall was triggered by the company. The
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Researchers have been awarded a grant to help determine how disease caused by a parasite progresses in warm-blooded animals, and how it is transmitted in food.
A team from the United Kingdom and Brazil were given funding of around £500,000 ($650,000) from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and
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Two people have died after eating raw or undercooked horse meat, according to French public health officials.
Santé publique France has provided more details on two outbreaks linked to consumption of horse meat in summer and autumn. French authorities revealed the illnesses earlier this month.
The first epidemic with
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French authorities are investigating almost 50 Salmonella infections linked to eating raw or undercooked horse meat in the past few months.
During this summer, Sante publique France identified 20 patients that are part of a cluster of Salmonella Newport cases.
A total of 28 other people were linked to a
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Almost half of people surveyed in Ireland are at risk of getting sick from eating undercooked hamburgers.
A total of 45 percent of respondents are risking illness from eating undercooked burgers because they don’t cook them to high enough temperatures to kill pathogens such as bacteria, viruses and parasites.
Safefood’s
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A study on the presence of Toxoplasma gondii in retail meat in Scotland has highlighted venison as potentially high risk.
Toxoplasma gondii DNA was detected in 48 of 149 venison samples over two sampling periods. Consumption of undercooked meat is a known risk factor for toxoplasmosis infection.
Findings could be
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A Salmonella outbreak linked to horse meat from Romania sickened 25 people in France this past year, according to a new report.
Eleven cases were men and 14 were women. They ranged from 2 to 90 years of age and the median was 68 years old.
In September 2019, the
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A number of patients with symptoms of Trichinellosis have been detected near the Italian city of Turin.
A statement from early January by health authorities put the number of people affected at 20 but this past week local media reported up to 50 people are sick. All the wild boar
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Several people part of a Salmonella outbreak in Denmark tasted or ate raw or undercooked sausage, according to a recently published study.
In November 2018, an outbreak of monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium was detected. It sickened at least 49 people across the country.
A traditional form of raw Danish pork sausage
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A ban on serving raw beef liver in restaurants in Japan has not decreased the number of E. coli infections in the country, according to a study.
Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) causes many symptoms from diarrhea to the potentially deadly hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Serving raw beef liver dishes at
Continue Reading Raw beef liver ban had little impact on E. coli in Japan
