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Listeria Outbreak Creates New Technical Role in Company
It’s quite ironic that when profits are down the first people they seem to target is technical people. Now it seems after a major outbreak of listeria from Maple Leaf Foods in Canada, they’ve created a senior role of Chief Food Safety officer. Bacteria from a Maple Leaf plant in Toronto was linked to the deaths [...]
It’s quite ironic that when profits are down the first people they seem to target is technical people. Now it seems after a major outbreak of listeria from Maple Leaf Foods in Canada, they’ve created a senior role of Chief Food Safety officer. Bacteria from a Maple Leaf plant in Toronto was linked to the deaths [...]
Listeria Contamination in Maple Leaf Products Shocking!
Two-thirds of meat samples taken from Toronto-area nursing homes and hospitals in mid-August for testing were contaminated with listeria, according to records obtained by CBC News and the Toronto Star in a joint investigation. A listeriosis outbreak that health officials warned the public about in August has been linked to the deaths of 20 Canadians and [...]
Two-thirds of meat samples taken from Toronto-area nursing homes and hospitals in mid-August for testing were contaminated with listeria, according to records obtained by CBC News and the Toronto Star in a joint investigation. A listeriosis outbreak that health officials warned the public about in August has been linked to the deaths of 20 Canadians and [...]
Legionella infects No.13
Another person whihc now totals 13 has come down with the deadly Legionnaires’ disease and health officials say the bacteria that causes the deadly respiratory ailment has been found at a second location, a Syracuse nursing home in NY. So far investigators searching for the potential source of the outbreak have discovered that the Legionella [...]
Another person whihc now totals 13 has come down with the deadly Legionnaires’ disease and health officials say the bacteria that causes the deadly respiratory ailment has been found at a second location, a Syracuse nursing home in NY. So far investigators searching for the potential source of the outbreak have discovered that the Legionella [...]
The onchocerciasis parasite showing signs of resistance
Onchocerciasis is an infection caused by Onchocerca volvulus, a parasite nematode worm transmitted to humans by a species of black fly of the Simulium genus whose larvae develop in fast-flowing rivers. Infected subjects suffer not only from severe skin lesions but also eye damage that can lead to irreversible of−loss of sight, hence the name ‘river [...]
Onchocerciasis is an infection caused by Onchocerca volvulus, a parasite nematode worm transmitted to humans by a species of black fly of the Simulium genus whose larvae develop in fast-flowing rivers. Infected subjects suffer not only from severe skin lesions but also eye damage that can lead to irreversible of−loss of sight, hence the name ‘river [...]
Cosmetic products may cause fatal infections in critically ill patients
Healthy consumers can handle the low levels of bacteria occasionally found in cosmetics. But for severely ill patients these bacteria may trigger life-threatening infections, as patients in the intensive care unit at one Barcelona hospital discovered after using contaminated body moisturiser. The Burkholderia cepacia bacteria outbreak is detailed in the open access journal, Critical Care. Five [...]
Healthy consumers can handle the low levels of bacteria occasionally found in cosmetics. But for severely ill patients these bacteria may trigger life-threatening infections, as patients in the intensive care unit at one Barcelona hospital discovered after using contaminated body moisturiser. The Burkholderia cepacia bacteria outbreak is detailed in the open access journal, Critical Care. Five [...]
