Why it's hard to tell what gave you food poisoning
Soon after eating a kale salad, your stomach churns and you need to run to the nearest bathroom. There must have been something in the salad to make you sick—right?
Mar 14, 2023
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Soon after eating a kale salad, your stomach churns and you need to run to the nearest bathroom. There must have been something in the salad to make you sick—right?
Mar 14, 2023
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Wild mushrooms are springing up around Australia this autumn after wet weather, so today, the Food Safety Information Council is warning people to be extremely careful around wild mushrooms because of the deadly, deathcap ...
Mar 7, 2023
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Food safety authorities and regulators around the world recommend you don't wash raw poultry before cooking.
Jan 6, 2023
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Listeria is in the news again—sometimes you're warned against a particular brand of ice cream or bags of fresh produce. This time around, it's deli meat. Public health officials will raise the alarm about an infection called ...
Nov 28, 2022
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The urge to vomit after eating contaminated food is the body's natural defensive response to get rid of bacterial toxins. However, the process of how our brain initiates this biological reaction upon detecting the germs remains ...
Nov 1, 2022
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A study on the potential for cross-contaminating kitchen surfaces with pathogens during food preparation has pointed to an unlikely culprit for spreading sickness: spice containers.
Oct 19, 2022
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Cases of food poisoning slightly decreased in 2021 compared to pre-pandemic years, according to a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Oct 7, 2022
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Every year, almost 1 in 6 Americans gets a foodborne illness, and about 3,000 people die from it, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates. Picnics and parties where food sits out for hours are a ...
Sep 19, 2022
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to toughen regulations on certain raw chicken products.
Aug 1, 2022
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Ice cream, strawberries, packaged salads, even peanut butter—they all have been in the news in recent months because of links to foodborne illness as reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Jul 18, 2022
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