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Botulism
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Food Poison Journal
Bacon Spread Recalled Due to Botulism Risk
By Bill Marler
Testing by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) revealed that the spread made by Kitchen by Brad Smoliak might permit the growth of clostridium botulinum, which causes botulism. Customers who…
Botulism Blog
Bacon Spread has Botulism Risk
By Bill Marler
Testing by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) revealed that the spread made by Kitchen by Brad Smoliak might permit the growth of clostridium botulinum, which causes botulism. Customers who…
Botulism Blog
Honey and Botulism – Baby Risk
By Bill Marler
Two British babies have contracted a rare life-threatening disease triggered by eating honey. The boys, aged three months and five months, had to be put on life-support machines suffering from…
Food Safety News
Canadian Liver Pâté Recalled Due to Botulism Risk
By News Desk
Webbers Food is recalling “Hausmacher” liver pâté from the marketplace because it may permit the growth of Clostridium botulinum. Consumers should not consume the recalled product described below. The following…
Botulism Blog
Liver Pate Recalled Due to Botulism Risk
By Bill Marler
Webbers Food is recalling “Hausmacher” liver pâté from the marketplace because it may permit the growth of Clostridium botulinum. Consumers should not consume the recalled product described below. The following…
Food Safety News
Letter From the Editor: Milk Money
By Dan Flynn
Talk about bad timing. 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 past week…
Food Poison Journal
4 with Botulism in Amarillo Texas
By Bill Marler
Food Safety News reports, public health officials in Amarillo, TX, are investigating a possible botulism outbreak after learning of four probable cases of the rare and potentially fatal foodborne illness…
Marler Blog
Amarillo reports at least 4 Botulism Cases
By Bill Marler
Amarillo Globe-Mews reports that health officials are investigating a possible botulism outbreak in Amarillo and warn health professionals and the public to be aware there might be other cases. The…
Botulism Blog
Botulism Outbreak in Texas
By Bill Marler
On Friday, the Health Department was informed of the first potential case here in Amarillo. They soon began investigating and discovered three other possible cases. Two of the patients matched…
Food Poison Journal
Botulism – a Very, Very Nasty Bug
By Bill Marler
Botulism is a rare, life-threatening paralytic illness caused by neurotoxins produced by an anaerobic, gram-positive, spore-forming bacterium, Clostridium botulinum. Unlike Clostridium perfringens, which requires the ingestion of large numbers of…