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The company was using blemished fruit and ignored warnings from in-house safety experts and specialized in selling unpasteurized juices for their supposed health benefits. 70 people in several U.S. states were stricken, mostly in the West, and in Canada. The outbreak caused one death, a 16-month-old girl from Colorado. [33] [34]
This is a list of foodborne illness outbreaks by death toll, caused by infectious disease, heavy metals, chemical contamination, or from natural toxins, such as those found in poisonous mushrooms. Before modern microbiology, foodbourne illness was not understood, and, from the mid 1800s to early-mid 1900s, was perceived as ptomaine poisoning ...
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Foodborne illness (also known as foodborne disease and food poisoning) [1] is any illness resulting from the contamination of food by pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites, [2] as well as prions (the agents of mad cow disease), and toxins such as aflatoxins in peanuts, poisonous mushrooms, and various species of beans that have not been boiled for at least 10 minutes.
The dietary guidelines recommend that adults should consume 1 ½ to 2 cups of fruits and 2 to 3 cups of vegetables daily. Consumption of fruits and vegetables is low among Americans with only one ...
This is a list of infectious diseases arranged by name, along with the infectious agents that cause them, the vaccines that can prevent or cure them when they exist and their current status. Some on the list are vaccine-preventable diseases .
Here is the entire list of the 'Dirty Dozen' released by the EWG, highlighting the 12 conventionally grown fruits and vegetables found to have the highest pesticide contamination. 1. Apples
Peter Chin-Hong, an infectious disease specialist at UC San Francisco, said people should be on the lookout for the "Big Four": three respiratory viruses currently moving through the U.S ...