Monday, January 19, 2009

FDA Says to Stop Eating Peanut Butter


The Food and Drug Administration says Americans should “postpone” eating cookies, crackers, candy and ice cream that contain peanut butter or peanut paste while the agency works to establish which products are tainted with the strain of salmonella typhimurium which has sickened 474 people nationwide and is implicated in six deaths.

“Product specific information will become available in the next few days,” says Stephen Sundlof, director of FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

While snack products are potentially contaminated, supermarket peanut butter is not.

It appears that the only peanut butter linked to the outbreak was an institutional brand sold in 5 to 50 pounds tubs to schools, hospitals and nursing homes under the King Nut and Parnell’s Pride label. It was never sold at the retail level and is not available at supermarkets and grocery stores, FDA says.

As for products that might contain the tainted peanut butter and peanut paste, FDA is encouraging companies that bought from the Peanut Corporation of America’s Blakely, Ga., plant to inform consumers their products might be contaminated.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2009-01-17-salmonella-fda_N.htm

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Thursday, January 15, 2009

Surgical checklist saves lives, study finds


January 14, 2009

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Megan Ogilvie

HEALTH REPORTER

A simple safety check during major operations could prevent millions of people around the world from suffering surgical complications and save the lives of thousands of patients, according to a new study published today.

Wednesday, January 14, 2009

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