Vacuum packer 'was E.coli source'
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A meat packing machine was "wrongly used" leading to an E.coli outbreak which killed a young boy, a court hears.
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E. coli similar to that linked to a recent deadly outbreak has been found in eight fecal samples collected near two California farms that may have been a source of contaminated spinach.
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A CHEMICAL leak caused an extra job for fire fighters in Leamington.  Officers went to Heinz Frozen Foods in St Mary's Road at 12.35am yesterday after receiving reports that an unknown quantity of ammonia was leaking from a refrigeration unit.
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An E. coli outbreak that has sickened 59 people in the Northeast is prompting concern among West Coast farmers after officials announced that scallions suspected as carriers of the bacteria came from a Southern California farm.
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By Joe Walker, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 20-- -- Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant workers told federal investigators several years ago about contaminated dirt piles around the factory that in recent months were reported as newly discovered, 32-year employee Chris Naas says.
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Regulators have issued a public health alert for about 14,800 pounds of missing ground beef products that may be contaminated with the potentially deadly E. coli bacteria, the Department of Agriculture said on Thursday.
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A meat supplier has greatly expanded a ground beef recall, which now includes about 5.7 million pounds of fresh and frozen meat that may be contaminated with E. coli.
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Agents with the FBI and the Food and Drug Administration searched two produce-packing plants in California's Salinas Valley yesterday morning in connection with last month's outbreak of E. coli in fresh spinach that so far has sickened 193 people and killed at least one.
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BJ's Wholesale Club, Inc. said Tuesday it was recalling packages of fresh mushrooms after it a routine inspection revealed the possible presence of the deadly bacteria E. coli.
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BOISE, Idaho -- A 2-year-old boy who died from kidney failure last month had been infected with the same strain of E. coli bacteria that prompted a nationwide consumer warning on fresh spinach, health officials said Thursday.
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West Virginia regulators have cited a mining company for allowing workers in September to carry damaged emergency equipment into the Sago Mine, where an explosion in January killed 12 men. The heat indicators on six minersâ emergency air packs showed the packs had been exposed to excessive heat, the citation said. The violation notice was issued Sept. 7 to a subsidiary of International Coal Group Inc. A copy was obtained by The Associated Press. A company spokesman, Ira Gamm, said the company was contesting the citation.
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Investigators believe they've found the culprit behind the E.coli outbreak.  But studies show that the bacteria can spread more easily than we thought
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Health inspectors noted 12 possible safety breaches at the butcher's premises believed to be at the centre of a deadly E coli outbreak months before the bacteria spread through schools in south Wales, killing a five-year-old boy, an inquiry has heard
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A second bag of spinach contaminated   with toxic E.coli bacteria has been found in Utah, and   regulators hope it will offer clues about an outbreak that has   now sickened 173 people and killed as many as three.
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Dumpling delicacies stuffed with cardboard shreds and bogus rabies vaccines are the focus of the latest health scares in China, where an industrial solvent used in toothpaste was banned after a spate of global recalls.
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A bacterium that causes intestinal illness in cattle and sheep could also be responsible for Crohn's disease, researchers said on Friday.
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Two bags of Dole baby spinach that tested positive for the E. coli strain that has sickened 175 people nationwide were packaged at the same plant on the same day, California health officials said Monday.