#food contamination

[everlastingrandom]

U.S. people, if you bought cinnamon from Dollar Tree, Dollar General, or other discount stores, throw it out. It's got lead

[reality-detective]

⚠️⚠️⚠️ WARNING ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Pay Attention to What You Buy. 🤔

[roguemonsterfucker]

do you mind sharing what food it was that was contaminated? do you know if its been recalled or anything since then?

Applegate dinner sausages. Either the Spinach and Feta or the Chicken and Apple.

Now, I can't be 100% sure that it was those but my diet is limited so there aren't many other options for getting this through food. And I didn't have contact with people, so I find it unlikely I caught it from a person.

All I know is, my mom brought home a bunch of packages of sausages. One of them didn't look right, so we sent it back. And when eating some of the remaining ones, I found something... unpleasant in my food. Now, this unpleasant find could have come from my own house or the chips I was eating with the sausages, but... I find that highly unlikely. Still, I didn't want to cause a fuss when I found it because I couldn't be sure it hadn't come from my house and I'd already recently had to throw out expensive food due to my anxiety about food contamination.

Then within a few days, I felt like I had food poisoning (which ended up actually being Rotavirus when I got tested).

I don't believe there's been a recall. My mom is considering contacting the company, though.

I've been eating these sausages for... years probably. They're my main diet. Or... were my main diet. I'm sure most are still fine but goodness now I'm having anxiety lol.

[stranger-nights-ahead]

So, I was looking up the FDA's allowed contaminants in food and uh

So that's 2,500 aphids per 10 grams of hops. Given the weight of an average aphid, that's about 0.5 grams of aphid per 10 grams of hops.

Hops are 5% aphid by weight.

I don't think you can really call beer vegetarian...

[lesbiancassius]

MILK WENT BAD INCIDENT 10 DEAD 28 INJURED

[residentweevil13]

Furious at Capitalism

So, this evening's highlight is a potential risk to disabled people's health because - just like the US formula shortage - a limited number of large corporations make a majority of a particular type of product. In this case, it's nutritional beverages. The sort people like me rely on to feed themselves.

The problem - again, the same thing that was the cause behind the formula shortage - is crappy manufacturing standards resulting in potential contamination. "Preliminary root cause analysis shows that the products did not meet commercial sterility specifications." In this case, the potential issue is botulism. So. Imagine you rely on these products to stay alive. Here's the picture USA Today attached to their article:

Here's the link to their article:

I will spare you the picture of the two cases of Premier Protein beverages I recently bought from Costco, of which I have consumed about 1/3rd. Both of them are on the recall list "due to the potential for microbial contamination, including from the organisms Cronobacter sakazakii and Clostridium botulinum."

Super. Also, "vulnerable and immunocompromised populations may be more susceptible to infection." So... the people most likely to be reliant on these products are more likely to get sick from them. Fun times.

Now, to be thorough, there are no reports that anyone has gotten sick yet. But it's not a risk we can afford to take. I just finished the better part of two years of cancer treatment. I also have an autoimmune disorder. Fuck Capitalism.

[petnews2day]

Has the Dog Food Brand Issued a Recall in 2024?

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Has the Dog Food Brand Issued a Recall in 2024?

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[lead-academy]

The Perils of Physical Contamination in Food

Physical contamination is the presence of foreign objects in food that can pose a risk to consumer safety. Common examples include glass, plastic, metal, stones, jewelry, fingernails, and hair. This type of contamination can lead to choking, injury, or other health hazards if consumed. Preventing physical contamination involves stringent quality control measures throughout the food production and handling process. Here is my blog:https://lead-academy.org/blog/physical-contamination-of-food/

[tmmediaindia]

Sabouraud dextrose agar

Sabouraud Dextrose Agar, Carlier’s modified version of the formulation originally described by Sabouraud, serves as a culture medium intended for cultivating fungi such as yeasts and molds. It proves particularly valuable for growing fungi linked to skin infections. Additionally, this medium finds application in assessing microbial presence in food, cosmetics, and clinical samples.

[inkintheinternet]

Food Poisoning -How Food can get Contaminated

By Arjuwan Lakkdawala 

Ink in the Internet 

Each year thousands around the world die from food poisoning, and others get their immune system compromised.

It is of particular concern when travelling, because food is the one thing we need daily, and while we may have a good idea about the types of foods and restaurants to avoid in our hometown, it may not be the case when travelling.

Food safety isn't just about avoiding restaurants that don't appear to be clean. It is about knowing how food can get contaminated even when cooked at home. Preservatives could prevent spoilage from appearing on foods that have gotten contaminated.

In 2020 nine members of a family died in their home after eating noodles that had been left in the freezer for over a year, and in another case seven members of a family died after having soup.

In 2019 a student died in his sleep after eating pasta that had been left out at room temperature for 5 days, he put sauce on it and couldn't tell it had gone rotten.

The noodles had gotten contaminated with

Bongkrekic acid which is produced by the bacterium Burkholderia gladioli, it's a toxin which most people are unaware of and because it is odorless and tasteless can go undetected in the food, and is not destroyed by cooking. Bongkrekic acid is a source of food poisoning in fermented foods and corn starch, etc. Most cases of this poisoning are fatal.

There is no antidote for the toxin, it effects the mitochondria which are organelles that generate energy for our bodies.

Bongkrekic acid causes death of the cells, severe cases may result in kidney damage, liver failure, and coma.

Even the slightest dose can be fatal, and because it is a foodborne toxin, it cannot be estimated how much of it there may be in contaminated food. The death rate is from 40 to 100%.

Symptoms include dizziness, vomiting, fatigue, stomachache, hyperglycemia, (high blood sugar) and hypoglycemia (low blood sugar).

 "In 2018, a family of seven in China became ill after eating wet rice noodles that were later found to be contaminated with bongkrekic acid. The noodles, which had been treated with preservatives, did not exhibit any signs of spoilage; two family members and the family dog (which was fed some of the leftover noodles) died."

Bird Flu is another reemerging threat to food contamination. Usually this virus only infects birds, but through direct contact or consumption can get humans infected.

Sadly poultry are often culled inhumanely when there is an outbreak of the virus in the bird population.

Phylogenetic analyses and phylogeographical studies have shown that bird trade more than bird migration is often behind the infection spreading. 

It is a virus that speads amongst waterfowls like ducks, geese, swans, and then can infect chickens and turkeys. 

Bird Flu also known as Avian flu,  its current alarming strain is H5N1, which is highly pathogenic -classiefied as such because of its ability to cause disease and death in chickens, its first sequenced strain (H1N1) goes back to the 1918 Spanish Influenza that killed 50 million people. 

Other IAV pandemics that followed were H2N2 in 1957 (Asian Flu)  Deaths worldwide estimate 2 million

H3N2 in 1968 (Hong Kong Flu) Deaths worldwide estimate 4 million (reports vary)

H1N1 in 2009 (Swine Flu) Deaths worldwide estimate 575,400

Although the pandemic is not wholly blamed on Avian Flu but it is considered to be of avian influenza origin.

The emergence of new strains of H5N1 has been studied to be by reassortment events between genes of domestic and wild birds.

Why it is so important to monitor the phylogenetic tree of Avian Flu is its mortality rate of close to 60% according to the CFR (Case Fatality Rate) documented in a study. The CFR of Covid-19 is difficult to estimate because not every case with COVID-19 gets reported, the virus has so far killed close to 7 million people and infected close to 700 million.

If the Spanish Influenza could have a Avian Flu origin that means so can future pandemics and the mortality rate could go higher with mutations.

Recently a report from China that was uploaded to the Internet and then removed for unknown reasons, some data in it made headlines like the presence of the genes of racoon dogs in samples taken from the wet market where the outbreak happened.

Why this is a matter of debate is because Covid-19 origin is still a mystery. Since no infected animals were found in the market.

Dr. Edward Holmes, a biologist at Sydney University, says in 2014 he had visited the wet market in Wuhan, China, and observed caged racoon dogs, with cages of birds sitting on top, exactly the environment conducive for the transmission of new viruses.

Beef that is consumed worldwide also has safety hazards like the outbreak of Mad Cow Disease that can spillover the species barrier with a human version of the disease called Creutzfeld-Jakob disease ( vCJD).

There is currently no way to test livestock for Mad Cow Disease, only after the animal dies swabs from the brain are taken to test for the abnormal prion protein. There are many products that have beef derivatives including pet food. Beef derivative contaminated with the diseases was found in pet food and there was the 2003 UK outbreak. Health officials have not been able to eliminate the disease.

Pet foods unfortunately do not go health screening like food for human consumption, and there have been pet food recalls because the food was contaminated and pets died with renal failure. I personally don't recommend pet food for pets in a long term diet, instead feed them food meant for human consumption as a safer and healthier option. 

The inhumane culling of birds should also not be overlooked and I hope authorities will make the effort to find painless procedures of culling birds.

Bird trade to keep as pets should also be stopped, birds don't belong in cages and the trade could help the spread of viruses.

Another food contamination source is lead and mercury. As well as salmonella. In the news often food products get recalled due to these.

According to the World Health Organization

An estimated 600 million that is practically 1 in 10 people in the world fall ill after eating contaminated food and 420,000 die each year.

Foodborn illnesses are usually infectious or toxic in nature.

"Chemical poisoning which is also a food poisoning hazard can cause acute poisoning or long term diseases such as cancer, or cause long-lasting disability or death."

Other dangers include food that is deadly in itself.

Pufferfish in Japaness is called Fugu, the highly poisonous fish is consumed in Japan after being prepared by experienced chefs who have to obtain a licence to prepare it. Yet annually there are deaths from eating the fish.

The mortality rate is 60% 

After consuming the toxin in the fish you have only sixty minutes to get medical help.

Fugu ovaries, intestines, and liver contain the neurotoxin tetrodotoxin, it is 1,200 times more deadly than cyanide.

A lethal dose of tetrodotoxin is smaller than the head of a needle.

One fish has enough poison to kill 30 people.

So be careful what you order next time you are in a foreign restaurant

"Sannakji, a Korean dish, is live baby octopus tentacles that are cut into pieces, seasoned and served immediately.

Culinary daredevils eat the tentacles while they are still writhing on the plate, which is a very dangerous game.

Suction pads on the tentacles maintain suction even after the tentacles are severed, so diners must chew the tentacles before they stick to the roof of the mouth.

If they don’t, the tentacles can stick to the mouth and throat and cause the customer to choke to death."

Copyright ©️ Arjuwan Lakkdawala 2023

Arjuwan Lakkdawala is an author and independent journalist. Twitter/Instagram @Spellrainia

Email: arjuwan.writer@gmail.com

Sources:

American Society for Microbiology- Microbiology Resource Announcements -

Complete Genomic Sequences of Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza Viruses Obtained Directly from Human Autopsy Specimens

Kantima Sangsiriwut, Mongkol Uiprasertkul, [...], and Pilaipan Puthavathana

Center for food safety - timeline of Mad Cow disease

PRB - Resource Library Avian Flu and Influenza Pandemics- Sandra Yin, former associate editor

Avian Flu and Influenza Pandemics

Royal Society Publishing - Philosophical Transactions B - A brief history of bird flu

Samantha J. Lycett, Florian Duchatel, and Paul Digard

Our World in Data - Mortality Risk of Covid-19

Poison Control - National Capital for Poison Center - Bongkrekic acid poisoning from fermented foods

Canadian Institute of Food Safety- 8 of the most dangerous foods

World Health Organisation- Food Safety

The Street - China Has a History of Selling Dangerous Products to U.S. Consumers

EMILY STEWART

U.S. Department of Agriculture - BSE Surveillance Information Center

Horizon Megazine - The EU Resesrch and Innovation Megazine -The Mad Cow Disease crisis - how Europe’s health research came of age - Garry Finnegan

Toronto Star - They analyzed Chinese data on the origins of COVID. Now, these researchers have been cut off from a global database, and accused of ‘scooping’

By Steve Mckinley, staff reporter.

The New York Times -

New Data Links Pandemic’s Origins to Raccoon Dogs at Wuhan Market by Benjamin Mueller

CBS News - Bird flu's grisly question: How to kill millions of poultry

India Today - China: 9 of a family die after having noodles kept in freezer for a year

Insider - A student died in his sleep after eating 5-day-old pasta that had been left out by James Felton IFL Science

Scitable - Nature Education - Reading a Phylogenetic Tree: The Meaning of Monophyletic Groups

By: David Baum, Ph.D. (Dept. of Botany, University of Wisconsin, 430 Lincoln Ave., Madison, WI) © 2008 Nature Education 

Citation: Baum, D. (2008) Reading a Phylogenetic Tree: The Meaning of Monophyletic Groups. Nature Education 1(1):190

Mayo Clinic - Salmonella Infection

CDC - Bird Flu in People

FDA - All About BSE (Mad Cow Disease)

Delishably - Puffer Fish Sushi: How Fugu Kills You

INDIA ARNOLD

Daily News - Family in China dies after eating spoiled frozen noodles

By David Matthews

New York Daily News

CDC - Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), or Mad Cow Disease

[reality-detective]

Are we consuming plastics everyday? 🤔

[everlastingrandom]

sorry for being the town crier of food PSAs but I see a lot of breaking reports while I research for my job: as of April 9th, 2024 high levels of lead have been found in Lunchables kits, as well as other harmful contaminates

[illya-roma]

Jazz, holding a mushroom stake she made for damian as gift at gun point: any last words?

Ectocontaminated mushroom stake : you mere mortal can not kill me in a way that matters.

Jazz, cocking the gun: try me

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Jazz: Here, I made this for you

Tiny damian vibrating with excitement because his favourite chef made more food: Give me!

Jazz raises an eyebrow:...

Damian stops stuffing his mouth: Thank you, Jazlyn.

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Jazz, fist fighting a whole undead turkey: And always make sure to wear your gloves, we don't want a speck of ow dirt on it.

The turkey: * curses in turkey*

The chefs who's numbers are dwindling because Thalia hates that their food is not as delicious as the new cook's:

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Ra's al ghoul forcing a blush down: *slowly takes a bit out of his food*

Ra's: ...

Ra's: DAMMIT Thalia the spaghetti is mine!

Thalia hiding in the walls:

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Thalia ogling at the new chefs muscles:

Jazz stabbing a screaming octopus: Hi! Can I help you?

Thaila an assassin, who's sitting on the counter right infront of Jazz, shamelessly staring at her: You could take of your chef jacket. I know blood can be hard to clean.

Jazz breaking it's spine: Good idea!

@phantom00maverick @jackpoompkin

[hazelbutterflies]

accidentally ate a bit of moldy bread which is like one of my worst fears lmao

[starblaster]

(since no one is reading my tags or other reblogs): this post has an addition. the addition is specifically about co-mingle recycling in most usamerican cities. always check your local guidelines for recycling. the point of this post was not to tell you what you can or can’t recycle, anyway. the point was that a lot of recycling gets thrown out because it’s fucking contaminated. if you can’t clean your recyclables to keep them from contaminating a whole bin, just put it in the trash. you don’t need to feel guilty about it... that's it. that's why i wrote the post.

[puppetmaster13u]

Meme Prompt 2

Thinkin of feral halfa Jason again. No surprise there.