Sentences with phrase «outbreak of food»

When there is an outbreak of food poisoning, claims are much easier to prove.

This week's headlines: Another huge, awful outbreak of food - borne bacteria.

Overall risk One problem for health experts would be distinguishing a terrorist attack from a natural outbreak of food poisoning.

Even before the beef scandal, Snow Brand Milk had been struggling to rebuild its image following an outbreak of food poisoning that made about 10,000 people ill in 2000.

It is the third outbreak of food contamination at Chipotle restaurants since August.

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.

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.

Popal added the weather in Iraq was getting hotter which would make water borne diseases and outbreaks of food poisoning more likely.

Dr. Clydesdale noted that there have been recent outbreaks of food borne infections from fresh produce.

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.

From e.coli in produce to serious contamination of our meat supply, there's little doubt that major outbreaks of food poisoning are a serious concern in our Globalized, interconnected food

From e.coli in produce to serious contamination of our meat supply, there's little doubt that major outbreaks of food poisoning are a serious concern in our Globalized, interconnected food system.

Not exact matches

«Consumer Reports is making this recommendation given the potentially fatal consequences of E. coli, the fact that there are still several unknowns about this outbreak, and that no type of romaine has been ruled definitively safe by government officials,» said James Rogers, the head of food safety at the non-profit-run magazine.

Officials are looking into the cause of the outbreak by examining the food and water facilities the affected personnel have been using.

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.

All of this promises to help companies reduce food spoilage and prevent disease outbreaks.

The story takes place back in 1990, when the food service company he ran in Vermont found itself at the center of a salmonella outbreak.

Chipotle Mexican Grill (cmg) is retraining kitchen crews on food safety and enforcing a zero - tolerance policy for employees refusing to abide by new rules, after identifying a sick employee as the cause of a Norovirus outbreak that forced it to briefly close a restaurant in Virginia last week.

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.

The confusion around what exactly happened at the XL Foods meat packing plant in Brooks, the slow reaction of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to the E.coli outbreak, and the late reaction of the slaughterhouse owners will certainly be an issue the opposition will use to tackle the government during the fall sitting.

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 tourism / leisure and manufacturing / food industries saw the largest increases in the number of warnings, reflecting the outbreak of SARS in Asia, the Iraq war and weak global economy.

The recent outbreak of listeria cast a glaring pre-election light on food safety, and made public the Conservative governmentâ $ ™ s plans to deregulate food inspection.

Because of that week, not only was my own life changed profoundly through friendships and awakenings, but I'm proud to say that we — and I mean all of us because you have all walked this road with our family — we have partnered with incredible leaders to build a school for kids in earthquake ground zero Port - au - Prince (staffed and run by Haitians), supported a home - based village for trafficked children near the border, built a preschool for early support for these children, supported schooling and food programs in neglected villages decimated by the cholera outbreak, supported pregnant and nursing women with a fantastic maternity centre, and so much more.

Food cravings, acne outbreaks, and sugar addiction all led her to feel out of control.

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

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As part of its ongoing effort to improve the safety and security of the nation's food supply, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) today gathered over 200 of the industry's top scientists and quality assurance experts to assess its current food safety practices, share successful practices and develop a comprehensive plan for preventing food - related health outbreaks.

«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.

On the other hand, food processing and manufacturing companies may be reticent to call any attention to the quality of training given the publicity surrounding product recalls or outbreaks of listeria or salmonella that can be tied to employee mishandling.

Dr Rob Davies, minister of Trade and Industry, said if imported products are found to be the origin of the outbreak, action will be taken to protect food safety in the country.

Other factors also contribute to pest outbreaks such as excessive fertilizer which creates luxuriant crops for the hoppers to feed on and continuous rice cropping that doesn't allow for a break in the food supply of the pests.

The news comes weeks after Rombola Family Farms was given the all - clear by the NSW Food Authority to resume production after being named as the source of February's outbreak.

The NSW Food Authority has confirmed the source of the fatal listeria outbreak linked to a rockmelon farm in the NSW Riverina region.

He described the process of tracking the outbreak to Jindi as «an important piece of investigative work» that involved obtaining detailed food histories from victims, multi-jurisdictional intelligence from the federal government's food - borne diseases surveillance unit, OzFoodNet, and bacterial DNA «fingerprinting» to determine the exact strain of listeria.

«In the past few years there have been outbreaks of bacterial food poisoning from non-pasteurized, fresh pressed juices.

One person has died and almost 80 people have been taken ill following an outbreak of salmonella in US turkey meat, leading food giant Cargill to recall 36 million pounds of turkey mince from its Arkansas plant.

The company first removed the «at risk» foods on Wednesday, February 4, and Canberra residents were advised of the Salmonella outbreak on Thursday, February 5.

A Costco wholesale store in South San Francisco, Calif., is recalling nearly 40,000 pounds of rotisserie chicken products because the food may be linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning that now has sickened more than 300 people in 20 states, federal health officials said early Saturday.

Food safety guidelines will be ramped up to try to win back consumer confidence following the outbreak of listeria in rockmelons, the Australian Melon Association says.

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 organizatFood 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 organizatfood service organization.

Tony Abbott has rejected a complete crackdown on food testing and labelling in response to the hepatitis A outbreak from imported berries, saying it was the responsibility of business «not to poison their customers».

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.

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.

Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto called an emergency meeting of health, education and agricultural officials Tuesday as the number of victims in a food - poisoning outbreak neared 6,000, most of them children.

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.

Because of USDA's existing interlocking rings of protection, there have been no foodborne outbreaks in schools associated with USDA - purchased products in over 10 years, and USDA foods are equal to, and often exceed, the quality of their commercial counterparts.

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.

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

The hope is that the bill's provisions will prevent contaminated food from ever reaching consumers, rather than the current practice of waiting for an outbreak and then going after the offending food producer.