Canada's Groupe Colabor is recalling Viandes Lauzon brand lean ground veal due to potential contamination with E. coli O157:NM. The recalled Viandes Lauzon Lean Ground Veal are sold in 2 x 2.5kg size with UPC code Item #35180, and bears a ...
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Northern Ohio Receives Four EPA Great Lakes Shoreline Cities Green Infrastructure Grants The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the award of four Great Lakes Restoration Initiative grants totaling more than $1.3 million ...
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Honey, that delectable condiment for breads and fruits, could be one sweet solution to the serious, ever-growing problem of bacterial resistance to antibiotics, researchers said here today. Medical professionals sometimes use honey ...
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Researchers in Britain say the urban legend that food picked up seconds after being dropped on the floor has fewer bacteria is, in fact, true. Anthony Hilton, a professor of microbiology at Aston University in England, monitored the ...
The system that allows the sharing of genetic material between bacteria – and therefore the spread of antibiotic resistance – has been uncovered by a team of scientists at Birkbeck, University of London and UCL. The study, ...
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The Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, mapping out all of the genes of the human genome. When the first draft of results were published many were surprised that we had only 24,000 genes. This seemed like an unremarkable amount ...
Tags: Proteins, New Medicines, Better Wine
A new study has found that fluctuations in temperature during transportation and retail sale of leafy greens negatively impacts both the product's quality and microbial safety. In a study published in the February issue of Journal of Food ...
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Maryland’s Department of Legislative Services says that making raw milk sales legal through individual cow-share or herd-share schemes could increase sporadic or isolated cases of illnesses from unpasteurized milk from almost none ...
Taylor Farms Retail, Inc. is recalling select Organic Baby Spinach products over concerns they may be contaminated with (EHEC) Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli. Symptoms of the diseases caused by EHEC include abdominal cramps and ...
Findings suggest similar origins of some cases of schizophrenia and autism in humans Johns Hopkins researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they ...
Tags: Immune Response, Prenatal Exposure, journal Brain, maternal infection
At the end of 2013, Consumer Reports made national headlines by reporting that 97 percent of retail chicken breasts were contaminated with some form of gut bacteria. Granted, not all of those bacteria are likely to make consumers sick, but ...
Tags: Chicken, Apples, Oranges, gut bacteria, Salmonella, Food Safety
Everyday our cells take in nutrients from food and convert them into the building blocks that make life possible. However, it has been challenging to pinpoint exactly how a single nutrient or vitamin changes gene expression and physiology. ...
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When Louis Pasteur developed and patented the process of pasteurization in the 1860s, it had nothing to do with milk. He was more concerned with keeping beer from spoiling. But, by the turn of the century, this method of preservation had ...
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Anytime a product recall is quickly associated with illnesses it's never good. But for Fonterra, the world's largest dairy processor, the need in the last week to recall 8,700 bottles of cream for E. coli contamination could not have come ...
Tags: Agriculture, Food, Milk, Milk Powder
Two Utah cousins, disgusted with news reports that 1-in-6 cellphones contain fecal material, developed a charger that simultaneously sanitizes a cellphone. Dan Barnes told the International CES 2014 in Las Vegas, billed as more than an ...
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