Sentences with phrase «borne illness outbreaks»

Under this law, the FDA has more authority to check food, improve inspections, and investigate the source of food borne illness outbreaks.

American schools are experiencing increasing numbers of food - borne illness outbreaks, but complex federal laws and bureaucratic turf battles hamper the government system designed to protect children from harm, a congressional watchdog agency reported Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — American schools are experiencing increasing numbers of food - borne illness outbreaks, but complex federal laws and bureaucratic turf battles hamper the government system designed to protect children from harm, a congressional watchdog agency reported Tuesday.

ROGERS: This comes after a string of food borne illness outbreaks that began in 2015, hitting the company «s stock and tarnishing its image.

The fallout from a 2011 food - borne illness outbreak highlights food safety challenges and gaps in regulation

Once a food borne illness outbreak occurs in several states, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention steps in to warn the public and take action to prevent the public from harm.

Not exact matches

One potential benefit: investigations into food - borne illnesses to take weeks (see this summer's fatal Salmonella outbreak linked to papayas), but a blockchain - based system has the ability to reduce that time to seconds.

Chipotle, one of the first national brands to market where its ingredients come from, has faced supply - chain issues and food - borne - illness outbreaks as its restaurants have grown in number to more than 2,300.

These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

«Historically, nitrates have been used to help prevent the growth of certain bacteria that can cause an outbreak of botulism, a deadly food - borne illness, and to give cured meat a pink color,» the company says.

Food Safety & Hokto Mushrooms Posted on September 28th, 2010 America's food supply is among the safest in the world, yet the recent salmonella outbreak in eggs has some people wondering about what is safe to eat and what to do to avoid food - borne illness.

Between 1998 and 2007, there were more than 470 outbreaks of food - borne illness in schools, nearly all of which were linked to contaminated processed foods supposedly under regulation by the FDA.

When you think of food - borne illness, do you think of the major outbreaks reported in the media?

These outbreaks receive most of our national food safety attention, but according to the CDC these represent only 5 % of the food - borne illness cases that

From animal disease outbreaks, to accidental contamination, food - borne illnesses, and concerns over the provenance or ingredients of foodstuffs, food crises of one form or another are seemingly a regular occurrence.

In the United States, some of the most alarming outbreaks are occurring in the suburbs, where rising temperatures may help explain the spike in such tick - borne illnesses as babesiosis; hga (human granulocytic anaplasmosis), a potentially lethal flulike infection; and Lyme disease, the most common vector - borne disease in this country.

For the study, Dorevitch and colleagues estimated the number of recreational waterborne illnesses using data from two large epidemiological studies as well as reports of water - borne disease outbreaks from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC.

Much of that will go towards implementing recommendations from the President's Food Safety Working Group, created last spring to bolster food safety and make outbreaks of food - borne illnesses less likely.

High - profile outbreaks of food - borne illness over the past several years have left regulators scrambling to recall tainted food — and led to the bill, which President Barack Obama signed into law last week.

As dengue fever continues to spread from Key West north into the Florida mainland, it remains a mystery as to why this dangerous mosquito - borne illness is not yet common around Tucson, Arizona — even though outbreaks routinely occur in nearby Mexico and mosquitoes that can carry dengue are now common in the state, according to a new research presented today at the annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH).

The 2016 outbreak of Zika virus, a mosquito - borne illness, highlighted the dangers of climate change.

While the shortage of rural veterinarians may cause animal owners to wait longer for care, Dr. Major said he's concerned about what would happen if there was an outbreak of a serious animal - borne illness such as mad cow or foot and mouth disease.

I was glad to see Mark Bittman offer a solid appraisal of the merits of irradiation as a means of cutting the chances of outbreaks of food - borne illness, and to see the followup Big Think post by David Ropeik providing more depth on what he calls the «perception gap» between people's fears of this technology and its risks.