News tagged with 'Bacteria'

A study out of the University of Arizona and Loma Linda University, finds that reusable, cloth grocery bags sometimes harbor dangerous foodborne bacteria such as E. coli and coliform from raw-meat.

Sandwich shop, Subway, is apologizing for a Salmonella outbreak in central Illinois that has hospitalized 24. Everyone has recovered. At least one is suing.

Many jokes are going around about the nutritional content of SpaghettiOs which are now the subject of a Class I recall, the most serious, by the Department of Agriculture because some of the canned kid food may not have been properly cooked. No one has been made sick.

Expect a round of positive PR even though McNeil's Fort Washington, Pennsylvania manufacturing plant remains closed and the source and type of contaminant of childrens over-the-counter cold and allergy meds remains a mystery.

Hospitals could save thousands of lives and billions of dollars if they acted like the top five hospitals in the U.S., according to HealthGrades.

A new study finds that about 48,000 Americans die from infections acquired in the hospital, and that raises the cost of health care by billions of dollars. These are not infections that individuals would have caught had they not been hospitalized, says the study from Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C. think tank.

Liseria found in the Atlanta plant that makes Kellogg's Eggo Waffles, has not been adequately addressed, the FDA says to the company in a letter it made public today.

A multistate Salmonella outbreak has sickened 134 people in 38 states and its source has still not been positively identified by federal health officials.

A research team looked at 90 dispensed beverages and found 70 percent had bacterial contamination that would not be allowed in municipal drinking water.

Miami-Dade health officials have cleared the luxury Epic Hotel of the Legionella bacteria that killed one tourist. Where it came from they are not saying. But the two others sickened did contract Legionnaires' disease from the hotel, which is being cleaned and remains closed.

Legionnaires' disease was first identified in 1976 at a convention in Philadelphia. Now a Miami hotel, which recently upgraded its filter system to remove chlorine, finds that instead the hotel had a growth of the dangerous bacteria which killed one guest and sickened two others.

Slim-Fast Ready-to-Drink meal replacement is found with bacterial contamination and removed from store shelves and, hopefully, consumer shelves at home.

Tyson foods was thawing seafood at a dangerous low temperature to prevent bacterial growth, says the FDA in a warning letter to the company.

Eight states are recalling 546,000 pounds of ground beef after E. coli contamination was detected. One person in New Hampshire has died and two others are sickened from what is suspected to be the same contaminated meat.

The Top Ten contaminated foods list is compiled by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. Modern agriculture, contaminated waste water, and dirty handling is blamed for many of the cases of bacterial contamination, and proposed improvements are pending in Congress.