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Listeria brochures are never enough: frail wife ‘let down’ by NZ hospital
So much like Canada in 2008, and the U.S. in 1998. Listeria kills. After two cold-cut deaths last year in New Zealand, a health spokesthingy says they “routinely hands out the brochures” and it no...
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Listeria cases climb in Sweden, outbreak declared
Sweden’s Public Health Agency has declared a specific outbreak of Listeria during the final three months of 2013, with 41 sickened compared to 25 for the same period the year before. “There was a clear...
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Maple Leaf says listeria happens; Carl says, stop whining
Michael McCain, president of Maple Leaf Foods, told a press conference yesterday that continuing to find listeria in the plant responsible for producing luncheon meats that have killed 26 and sickened...
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Marketing food safety: Maple Lodge Farms deli-meat edition
Maple Lodge Farms is often confused with Maple Leaf Foods, the latter of the listeria mess in Canada a year ago that killed 22 people. In an effort to protect their brand, Maple Lodge has taken to...
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Canadians can go back to sleep; Maple Leaf Foods is profitable again
Some American colleagues have said killing 22 customers with deli-meat would have led to a non-existent company. Not so in Canada, where $5.5 billion companies like Maple Leaf Foods can say with a...
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Salmonella in headcheese leads to plant closure – 3 weeks later
Have Canadian officials resolved their federal-provincial-local turf issues involving food safety outbreaks with clear guidelines on when to issue public warnings and a clear commitment to place public...
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Listeria can target heart
This is sorta cool – unless you contract a subset of listeria and have heart problems. Listeria is everywhere, as Michael McCain of Maple Leaf Foods likes to remind everyone, but Nancy Freitag, from...
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Listeria and moms-to-be
Giving food safety – or any – advice to pregnant women is fraught with angst. And probably a lot of hypocrisy if you’re a dude. I don’t want to freak anyone out, especially expectant mothers, but also...
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‘Something is going on’ Salmonella Typhimurium infections in France jump from...
(As usual, something may be lost in translation) Salmonella contamination, found in cold cuts, mainly pork, exploded in 10 years in France, because of the progression of a new strain, called...
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Listeria kills three in two years, source traced to Dutch cold meat factory
Three people have died and one woman has had a miscarriage after eating cold meat contaminated with listeria, the public health institute RIVM said last Friday. top view of round slices of smoked pork...
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