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Vomiting. Diarrhea. Cramps. Food poisoning is no fun. In most cases, your body will heal itself as long as you drink plenty of fuids until the GI problems clear up.
One important piece of information on some meat labels tells you something about its safety: whether or not antibiotics were part of the animals’ diet. Antibiotics are routinely fed to…
Bacteria, viruses, and parasites on fresh produce have potential to cause life threatening illnesses. With fruits and vegetables coming from all corners of the world, contamination can occur at various…
The number of victims who have gotten sick from eating cucumbers contaminated with the bacterium Salmonella poona continues to increase throughout the United States. The toll is now 671 victims…
Certain soft cheeses contaminated with the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes have caused one death and sickened 24 people in 9 different states since August 8th. Five of the illnesses occurred in…
Cucumbers contaminated with the bacterium Salmonella poona have sickened 285 people in 27 states, mostly in the West and Midwest. One death has been reported and 53 people have been…
Salmonella from cantaloupe. Hepatitis A from strawberries. Cryptosporidium from scallions. Shigella from parsley. The list of disease-causing microbes in fruits and vegetables is almost as varied as our supply of fresh produce. Here are a few key examples of food poisoning from vegetables.
Lettuce
Rita Bernstein of Wilton, Connecticut, served mixed, pre-washed lettuce to her daughter Haylee, then three years old. That salad almost blinded the child.
The lettuce—which sickened 60 others in New York, Illinois, and Connecticut—was contaminated with E. coli O157:H7. After visiting the California farm where it was grown, investigators weren’t surprised.
Tea is in. The average American drinks some 155 cups a year. That makes tea the country’s fourth most popular beverage, after water, soft drinks, and coffee.
There is no doubt that tea is an invigorating drink – probably due to how much caffeine is in tea (about half the caffeine of coffee).
And the national waistline would be far better off if we replaced some of that soda with tea (provided we sipped it with little or no sugar).
Two separate outbreaks have sickened nine people in Minnesota and Wisconsin with a Salmonella bacterium that has been linked to raw breaded chicken entrees. Four victims have been hospitalized. No…