Gumshoe Work and Luck Helped Pinpoint Suspected Source of Food Poisoning
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A plastic bag of cut green onions provided the break for investigators tracking E. coli infections last week.
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New computer-based tools are helping track outbreaks of food contamination in the United States faster, food safety officials say, but they need more funds to meet a growing public demand for a safe food supply.
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Three people have now been confirmed killed in an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 food poisoning in spinach that originated in California, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
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By ADAM GOLDMAN  NEW YORK - When a food safety inspector walked into a market in Queens, he noticed the store had an interesting special posted on its front window: 12 beefy armadillos.
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Health officials on Wednesday zeroed in on lettuce as the likely suspect in the E. coli outbreak linked to Taco Bell, though tracing the vegetable's source may prove difficult.
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Officials are investigating Taco Bell restaurants as the possible source of the infections.
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U.S. officials searching for the   source of an E. coli outbreak that may have killed three people   said on Friday they had found "situations of concern" at farms   and food processing plants in California but cleared spinach   grown elsewhere in the country.
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A week after ConAgra Foods Inc. recalled peanut butter from its Georgia plant after a salmonella outbreak, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the presence of the dangerous germ.
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Scientists believe they may have found a new way to fight a potentially dangerous stomach infection.
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FOOD poisoning, it seems, has become a moving target for health officials.   For years, health experts rightly cautioned the American public about the dangers of E. coli sickness caused by raw or undercooked beef. And the handling of beef for human consumption requires vigilance.
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An outbreak of salmonella food poisoning that has sickened 329 people and sent 51 of them to the hospital was definitely caused by contaminated Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday.
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Government scientists struggled Thursday to pinpoint the source of the first U.S. salmonella outbreak linked to peanut butter, the kid favorite packed into millions of lunchboxes every day.
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A defunct Canadian meatpacker is "a likely source" of beef that caused an outbreak of food-borne illnesses in the United States and Canada, the U.S. meat safety agency said on Friday.
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Investigators trying to track down the source of an outbreak of gastrointestinal illnesses on a Lake Erie resort island are focusing on drinking water.
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A US team has found the clearest evidence yet that Crohn's disease is caused by a type of bacteria.
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By Julie Patel, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec. 17--The dead fish that Fremont High School teacher Laurie Turner and her students discovered years ago when they wandered out to the school's outdoor science lab shook them.
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Investigators are trying to determine the source of an outbreak of gastrointestinal infections on an island in Ohio. More than 1,000 visitors to South Bass Island in Lake Erie