 Food Information - September 7, 2008
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WLWT-TV reports the deaths of two infants at University Hospital in Cincinnati due to gastrointestinal disease - and five others are also infected. The babies in the neonatal intensive care unit were found to have necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC. The disease mostly affects premature infants and causes inflammation and destruction of the bowel or parts of the bowel |
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The Food and Drug Administration tentatively approves the manufacturing of silicone breast implants by Inamed Corp. The move brings the company closer to returning the implants to the market years after they were banned |
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Authorities are trying to find the source of tainted food that made about 100 people sick on Colorado River tour boat trips through the Grand Canyon over the past month. Adam Kramer, a public-health specialist for the National Park Service, says the gastrointestinal illness affected tourists on twelve separate trips with five tour companies, all Utah-based |
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Authorities are trying to find the source of tainted food that made about 100 people sick on Colorado River tour boat trips through the Grand Canyon over the past month. Adam Kramer, a public-health specialist for the National Park Service, says the gastrointestinal illness affected tourists on twelve separate trips with five tour companies, all Utah-based |
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A link has been established between a meat supplier and the E.coli outbreak at more than two dozen south Wales schools. The firm, John Tudor and Son, of Bridgend, supplies cooked meat to schools and council institutions |
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