BARFBLOG WEEKLY - 09/04/2019 Surveys still suck: Did the UK FSA discover that piping hot is a fairytale It was 20 years ago today Duck egg warning after UK man dies of Salmonella Listeria in Spain: 3 miscarriages, almost 200 sick Johnny Cash responds to Nashville refusing to play his music. Home-grown Cyclospora increasing in US Vaccines work: Cracker Barrel worker tests positive for hepatitis A Surveys still suck: 8 in 10 people never shop for groceries online Can a smartphone stop a norovirus outbreak? Surveys still suck: Observing food safety behaviours is best, but this paper just confuses things Salmonella in cake mix: It’s the raw eggs and flour Perfect poo and good health connect in teaching tool for children Puma poo: The oldest parasite DNA ever recorded Salmonella in Spain: 50 UK holidaymakers hit 13 sick pulling mussels from the shell Things not to do with racoons Singapore man, 38, died from Salmonella after eating Spize food, consumed bento 5 hours after it was packed Vibrio risk model development using various water inputs Surveys still suck: Did the UK FSA discover that piping hot is a fairytale By Doug Powell on Sep 04, 2019 04:13 pm The Food Standards Agency (FSA) have released their biannual findings from the general public attitudes tracker. This tracker highlights the behaviour, thoughts and reputation of food safety aspects throughout the year. Whenever there’s a scandal, a legislation change or a … Continue reading → View the entire entry » It was 20 years ago today By Doug Powell on Sep 03, 2019 05:07 pm Maybe not today, but I did talk with my friend Jim, and we didn’t talk about what we did 20 years ago, but instead talked about our kids, grandkids, and medical issues. We’re getting old, but still out there. My … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Duck egg warning after UK man dies of Salmonella By Doug Powell on Sep 02, 2019 10:05 am I don’t like the idea of backyard chickens, or chooks. They are Salmonella factories. The latest numbers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has more than 1,000 Americans sick from backyard chicks and two deaths; 605 have been hospitalized. … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Listeria in Spain: 3 miscarriages, almost 200 sick By Doug Powell on Sep 02, 2019 12:32 am Lucy Domachowski of the Daily Star writes that three pregnant women have suffered miscarriages and nearly 200 people hospitalised with listeria as an outbreak of the infection grips Spain’s holiday spots. A nationwide alert has been sent out after listeria, … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Johnny Cash responds to Nashville refusing to play his music. By Doug Powell on Sep 01, 2019 11:36 pm I did it years before Johnny Cash (mine is 1980), but just in general (although I did have the Cash pic on my office door — the office I never used except to store stinky hockey equipment for me and … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Home-grown Cyclospora increasing in US By Doug Powell on Sep 01, 2019 11:30 pm While cyclosporiasis cases are reported year-round in the United States, cyclosporiasis acquired in the United States (i.e., “domestically acquired”, or cases of cyclosporiasis that are not associated with travel to a country that is considered endemic for Cyclospora) is most common … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Vaccines work: Cracker Barrel worker tests positive for hepatitis A By Doug Powell on Sep 01, 2019 11:17 pm Driving down I-75 from Detroit to Englewood, Florida (starting point was Brantford, Ontario, that’s in Canada) for a couple of weeks became a summer-time routine because gramps was only there in his mobile home in the winter months, and I … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Surveys still suck: 8 in 10 people never shop for groceries online By Doug Powell on Aug 31, 2019 03:52 am According to Produce Retailer, online grocery shopping remains an option that most people do not use, according to a new poll. Gallup found that 81% of U.S. consumers never order groceries online, while 11% do so at least once a … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Can a smartphone stop a norovirus outbreak? By Doug Powell on Aug 31, 2019 02:04 am Rebecca Trager of Chemistry World reports U.S. researchers have created a handheld detection system that is sensitive enough to catch just a few particles of norovirus. University of Arizona biomedical engineer Jeong-Yeol Yoon and his team have created a highly sensitive portable … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Surveys still suck: Observing food safety behaviours is best, but this paper just confuses things By Doug Powell on Aug 31, 2019 01:33 am Every year, studies about food handlers’ food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices are published. Some results of these papers have been rather controversial, especially those related to food safety practices. The two most common methods for evaluating food safety practices … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Salmonella in cake mix: It’s the raw eggs and flour By Doug Powell on Aug 31, 2019 01:02 am The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports in August 2018, two Oregon patients with diagnosed Salmonella infection were interviewed using a standard enteric illness questionnaire; both patients reported having eaten raw cake mix. Standardized interview questionnaire data collected from 207 Oregon patients … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Perfect poo and good health connect in teaching tool for children By Doug Powell on Aug 31, 2019 12:31 am A central Queensland professor is taking the taboo out of poo to teach children about the link between eating well and making healthy poo. The ‘Poop it’ kit uses illustrated stories and rewards to educate four to eight-year-olds about what … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Puma poo: The oldest parasite DNA ever recorded By Doug Powell on Aug 30, 2019 11:28 pm The oldest parasite DNA ever recorded has been found in the ancient, desiccated faeces of a puma. A team of Argentinian scientists from the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) made the discovery after studying a coprolite taken … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Salmonella in Spain: 50 UK holidaymakers hit By Doug Powell on Aug 30, 2019 10:55 pm Brett Gibbons and James Rodger of Birmingham Live report that more than 50 people have been struck by salmonella in Majorca. Holidaymakers are among those affected by the outbreak of the deadly food poisoning on the holiday island. A La Liga … Continue reading → View the entire entry » 13 sick pulling mussels from the shell By Doug Powell on Aug 30, 2019 09:54 pm I love my shellfish – mussels and scallops (oysters are sorta gross) – but the kid was diagnosed with a shellfish allergy so they’re an occasional lunch while she’s at school. Health types in the UK report on six cases … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Things not to do with racoons By Doug Powell on Aug 30, 2019 12:27 pm From Scott Weese’s Worms and Germs Blog: I’ll hold back and just classify this as “not a great idea.” At least 21 people in Macon, GA, are undergoing rabies post-exposure prophylaxis after having contact with a rabid raccoon. How do that … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Singapore man, 38, died from Salmonella after eating Spize food, consumed bento 5 hours after it was packed By Doug Powell on Aug 30, 2019 10:43 am Mohamad Fadli Mohd Saleh, 38, an auxiliary police officer, died of sepsis and multi-organ failure a week after eating from a bento box prepared by Spize. The coroner’s court heard Fadli had eaten the food prepared by Spize restaurant between 2.53pm and … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Vibrio risk model development using various water inputs By Doug Powell on Aug 29, 2019 10:01 pm Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a leading cause of seafood-borne gastroenteritis. Given its natural presence in brackish waters, there is a need to develop operational forecast models that can sufficiently predict the bacterium’s spatial and temporal variation.  This work attempted to develop V. parahaemolyticus prediction … Continue reading → View the entire entry » Copyright © 2019 NC State University, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website. Our mailing address is: NC State University 3208 Duveneck Raleigh, NC 27606 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.