DEAR DR. DONOHUE: We're planning a family reunion at the end of this month. My family is large. Although we live in the same general area, some have to travel for three hours to reach our picnic site. Everyone is bringing food. I wonder about the best way to keep this food safe. I'd hate to see us have an outbreak of food poisoning. -- S.B. ANSWER: More than 200 different bacteria and viruses cause food poisoning. Taking a few simple precautions can keep you free of food poisoning. Undercooked meat, especially hamburgers, unwashed raw vegetables and unwashed fruits are the sources of most trouble.
WASHINGTON -- It's a dirty little secret of food poisoning: E. coli and certain other foodborne illnesses can sometimes trigger serious health problems months or years after patients survived that initial bout. Scientists only now are unraveling a legacy that has largely gone unnoticed.
To address a let's-pretend emergency of food poisoning, Congress aims to bestow extraordinary powers on the Food and Drug Administration, an agency whose grotesque inefficiencies have killed tens of thousands of us and will surely figure out a way to do still more harm if its bumbling reach is extended. If you want to know what to expect after the FDA starts micromanaging farms and food-related businesses, think jalapeno peppers. When the tainted peppers were sickening 1,300 a couple of years ago, the FDA instead went after the tomato industry, because, I guess, tomatoes are red and fully ripe jalapeno peppers are red, and well, anyone could get confused about this, right?
One U.S. firm added melamine, the plastic that Chinese manufacturers used to adulterate pet food ingredients. When Colorado-based Uniscope tested the resin it buys to bind its fish, shrimp and livestock feed pellets, it found melamine and reported it. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) responded with a "voluntary recall," also noting that both the resin supplier, Ohio-based Tembec, and Uniscope were using urea formaldehyde, a suspected carcinogen. The FDA promised "action if warranted. In the United States, campaign contributions and financial investments make for more subtle corruption, but both the USDA and the FDA, its weak and chronically underfunded partner, are in thrall to industry interests. After Lester Crawford resigned as FDA head in 2005, he pleaded guilty to lying and ...
Not long ago a national magazine for three straight years afforded St. Bonaventure the ignominy of having the worst food of any college and university. The school has since been removed from the list -- perhaps prematurely? Any designs the Bonnies had on moving into the top half of the Atlantic 10 standings fell victim to abdominal upheaval Saturday night. Star center Andrew Nicholson was hospitalized from 2-7 Saturday morning with apparent food poisoning, and without him Bona was no match for Dayton, falling, 75-58, before a season-best 5,290 at the Reilly Center.
WASHINGTON - It's a dirty little secret of food poisoning: E. coli and certain other foodborne illnesses sometimes can trigger serious health problems months or years after patients survived that initial bout. Scientists only now are unraveling a legacy that has gone largely unnoticed.
Q: How can you tell whether you have a stomach virus or food poisoning, and what do you do for each? -- Lori, West Hills, Calif.
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press
ATLANTA - Americans didn't suffer more food poisoning last year despite high-profile outbreaks involving peppers, peanut butter and other foods, according to a government report released Thursday. Rates of food-borne illnesses have been holding steady for five years. They had been declining from the mid-1990s until the beginning of this decade, due mainly to improvements in the meat and poultry industry, some experts say.
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