Posts Tagged ‘E. coli’
When it comes to food safety, E. coli is a constant threat. Not a year goes by it seems without at least a handful of deaths from infected meat or produce. Case in point: last summer a European E. coli outbreak killed more than 50 people, including several travelers. But now researchers have found a [...]
What’s a safe and healthy salad worth? Millions, according to food regulators and produce farmers in the US. Lives are at stake after all. Just this summer a deadly e. coli outbreak caused by Egyptian fenugreek seeds spread across Europe, killing dozens and sickening hundreds more. But this is just the most recent case in [...]
As far as we’ve seen, fun and creativity are rarities when it comes to research publications. So any study riffing on Sergio Leone was bound to catch our eye. E. Coli: The Good, the Bad and the Deadly is a comprehensive look at the most studied bacteria in science. It was put together by American [...]
The most recent update from the World Health Organization (WHO) said the number of e. coli cases in Germany and France is “much diminished.” It concluded “the [most recent] figures reflect some delayed reporting, and the evidence indicates the outbreak, which took 50 lives in Germany alone, is nearly over.” Germany’s Robert Koch Institute, meanwhile, [...]
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced consumers in Europe should not eat raw bean and seed sprouts until investigations into the continent’s deadly e. coli outbreak are complete. Over 4,000 people have fallen ill and 50 died since the health crisis began in May. While cases were originally confined to Germany, they have since spread [...]
France has reported 8 cases of e. coli, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). 6 women and 2 men have fallen ill. All are believed to have eaten contaminated bean or seed sprouts. An investigation is underway to determine whether the French and German outbreaks have a common source. German authorities, meanwhile, have conclusively [...]
German health officials have identified bean and seed sprouts as the cause of the recent E. coli outbreak, specifically fenugreek, mung beans, lentils, adzuki beans and alfalfa. On Friday, Germany’s Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR), Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food safety (BVL) and Robert Koch Institute (RKI) released a joint statement recommending [...]
The World Health Organization (WHO) has published updated statistics for the E. coli outbreak in Central amd Northern Europe. As of June 5th, about 1540 cases of Enterohemorrhagic E. Coli (EHEC) and 630 of Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome (HUS) – a deadly kidney illness linked to EHEC – had been reported. Though spread across 11 countries, [...]
16 people have died and more than 1,000 are ill (with 400 of those in critical condition) due to a sudden outbreak of E. coli, according to the latest reports from Europe. Originally confined to Germany, cases have since been reported in Denmark, France, the Czech Republic, the U.K., the Netherlands, Switzerland and now even [...]
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