Food Safety News Thu 6/25/2020

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Thu 6/25/2020 4:01 AM

Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Bottled water’s arsenic king remains legal but still loaded with heavy metal By Dan Flynn on Jun 25, 2020 12:05 am Consumer Reports still has a knack for finding something hiding in plain sight that many people will find outrageous. The find this time is bottled Starkey Spring Water manufactured by Whole Foods and also sold by Amazon. It’s the arsenic king of bottled water. The problem with Starkey bottled water is that it contains harmful... Continue Reading Salmonella outbreak now involves 1 death and 42 states; live poultry blamed By News Desk on Jun 25, 2020 12:04 am One person has died and more than 350 additional people have been infected with Salmonella from backyard poultry flocks, according to a CDC outbreak update. A third of the ill people are children younger than 5 years old. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last reported on the outbreak on May 20. Now there... Continue Reading Vibrio increase linked to raw mussels in New Zealand By Joe Whitworth on Jun 25, 2020 12:03 am Eating raw mussels from one region has been linked to several cases of vibriosis in New Zealand. The Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) is aware of eight confirmed cases of Vibrio Parahaemolyticus associated with eating mussels. Six of these consumed raw mussels harvested from two commercial areas in the Coromandel. New Zealand Food Safety, which... Continue Reading WGS boosts Salmonella investigations in Minnesota By News Desk on Jun 25, 2020 12:02 am Whole Genome Sequencing data has enhanced Salmonella Enteritidis investigations in Minnesota and become an integral part of the surveillance process, according to a study. Clusters of Salmonella Enteritidis cases were identified by the Minnesota Department of Health Public Health Laboratory with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and whole genome sequencing (WGS) single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis... Continue Reading