Sentences with phrase «of illness outbreaks»

Commercially grown sprouts have been the cause of illness outbreaks in the past (primarily salmonella and e. Coli), generally because of contaminated seeds; so make sure yours are intended for sprouting.

The April 30 hearing will examine the frequency and types of illness outbreaks from school food and the ability of government health agencies to protect children from contamination, Durbin said.

Not exact matches

A grand jury has subpoenaed Chipotle Mexican Grill in an investigation of a norovirus outbreak, and the chain warned investors Wednesday the fallout from increased media attention about foodborne illness has hammered its sales.

The experts aren't shocked by this — particularly bad outbreaks of flu are often trailed by another strain of the illness known as «influenza B» — but it's a bummer for the rest of us who were hoping we were finally out of the woods when it came to flu misery.

As Fortune stated in an article earlier this month, while the chain was once the envy of restaurant operators across the country, «the outbreak of foodborne illnesses that broke out coast to coast for five months in 2015 has permanently impaired the profitability of its business model.»

As a result, the company's stock price has been battered by the outbreaks of foodborne illnesses linked to its stores, the lawsuit said.

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.

But this outbreak demonstrates clearly both the threat that emerging viruses pose to the world and the need to have some sort of antiviral agent that we can use to try to treat any new viral illness.

Chipotle is already having a hard time luring in customers and revitalizing traffic and sales even two years after a string of high - profile foodborne illness outbreaks tarnished the brand's reputation.

Ells had to navigate a minefield of problems over the past two years, beginning with a string of foodborne - illness outbreaks.

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.

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

A total of thirty cases of Salmonella illness linked to poultry, including frozen raw breaded chicken products, are being reported in the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick Yet no recall warnings are yet associated with this outbreak.

The increasingly common outbreaks of foodborne illnesses over the past decade have led to a growing concern surrounding the safety of our food.

«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.

The depth and breadth of Chipotle's foodborne illness outbreaks was extensive and tragic.

Food safety manager certification helps ensure a safer dining environment and mitigates the risk of outbreaks of foodborne illness, which offers significant protection and peace of mind to the public and any food service organization.

Increased public scrutiny from both government agencies and the general public following mass media coverage of several severe outbreaks of foodborne illness has elevated expectations of food service organizations to take a more proactive approach to their responsibility to protect the food supply chain.

The women pointed towards their greater input on the OULTC Instagram («oultc1880», worth a follow), while the men blamed an outbreak of injury and illness resulting in numerous absentees.

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.

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.

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.

Perhaps you've heard that Texas, the closest thing I have to a «home» state, has been experiencing a series of disease outbreaks — involving illnesses that can be prevented with vaccines.

Under the memorandum of understanding (MOU), the two government agencies agree to share information on food recalls and illness outbreaks in a timelier manner.

He began litigating foodborne illness cases in 1993, when he represented Brianne Kiner, the most seriously injured survivor of the Jack in the Box E. coli O157: H7 outbreak.

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.

School officials have their hands full with the current outbreak of the flu, but measures taken to prevent the spread of the illness appear to be working the Rochester City School District and suburban schools.

Mayor Bill de Blasio attempted to shift the focus from an outbreak of Legionnaires» Disease in the south Bronx by addressing the problem of homelessness and mental illness.

He described Monkey Pox as a viral illness caused by a group of viruses that include chicken pox and small pox, noting that the first case was noticed in the Democratic Republic of Congo and subsequently it had outbreaks in the West African region.

As the number of people sickened in an outbreak of Legionnaires» disease in the South Bronx climbed to 71 yesterday, health officials were still piecing together where the illness, a form of pneumonia spread through airborne water droplets, might have originated.

City Hall noted that individual cases of legionella are not entirely uncommon in the city — they happen between 200 and 300 times a year — and said the inmate who had the illness was probably not part of the South Bronx outbreak.

Two more Bronx residents have died from Legionnaires» disease, increasing the total to 10 in what city health commissioner Dr. Mary Bassett described as the worst outbreak of the illness in city history.

Town of Niagara, NY (WBEN)- The Niagara SPCA has shut its doors to get control of what they call on their Facebook page a «very contagious outbreak of feline illness.»

And, while not a particularly common source of foodborne illness, flour has been implicated in two E. coli outbreaks in the United States and Canada in the last two years.

Pass it on: An outbreak of listeriosis linked to contaminated cantaloupes is the deadliest outbreak of foodborne illness in a decade.

30 Number of foodborne illness outbreaks associated with bean sprouts since 1996.

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.

And, while not a particularly common source of foodborne illness, flour has been implicated in two E. coli outbreaks...

They discovered that outbreaks of «influenza - like illnesses,» which had the hallmark signs of influenza, could be detected digitally in real time.

In Related News The U.S. suffered its deadliest foodborne illness outbreak since 1924: As of November, Listeria - laden cantaloupes had sickened 139 people and killed 29.

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.

All last week CDC officials reiterated their conclusion — based on nearly 40 years worth of successfully containing past outbreaks — that you can not catch the Ebola virus from people who are infected unless they have already begun suffering a fever or started showing other signs of illnesses.

Rumor: West Nile virus was released by Plum Island before the 1999 outbreak on the East Coast the first appearance of the deadly illness in the U.S..

By studying strains from different past E. coli outbreaks with his techniques, Eppinger is able to measure the amount of toxin produced in each strain, which is a direct mediator of disease and shows how severe the resulting illness could be.

In 1854 physician John Snow, one of the founders of modern epidemiology, traced a cholera outbreak in the overcrowded London neighborhood of Soho to a contaminated public water pump by noting how many cases of illness clustered around the pump.

In the case of influenza viruses, this strategy can fall short: Influenza antibodies are specific to one strain, which may not be among the strains causing illness during an outbreak.

«Large chains implement standardized training across all outlets for servers in order to protect their brand and reduce the likelihood of being implicated in a foodborne illness outbreak.

«While Clostridium novyi has not been isolated from all the patients in Glasgow, we think it is very likely to be the main cause of the illness in most of the people affected in this outbreak,» says Laurence Gruer, a public health consultant with the Greater Glasgow Health Board.