Hairy crabs taking dioxin and dioxin-like PCBs into Hong Kong By News Desk  Among six hairy crab samples — three collected at the import level and three from retail sales — Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety recently found one with levels of dioxin and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs that exceeded the maximum allowed by law. The finding promoted further review and caused Hong Kong to suspend import... Continue Reading
Foodborne illness sickens 40, hospitalizes 6 in Alabama By Cathy Siegner  Public health officials in northern Alabama are working to track down the source of a foodborne illness that has caused at least 40 people to seek medical attention and six to be hospitalized since Saturday night. According to the Alabama Department of Public Health, officials started investigating the situation on Monday after reports emerged that a number of people had experienced bouts... Continue Reading
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Those nerds at the FDA and CDC have been at it again, thank goodness. They took a crazy close look at the Listeria outbreak traced to Blue Bell Creameries ice cream and found evidence supporting the long-held assumption that very small amounts of the pathogen can lead to serious infections in some groups of people. Though... 
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