Welcome back to the Babies Online Blog! If you haven’t already, be sure to subscribe to our RSS feed and be the first to get breaking parenting news and take advantage of our member only giveaways. Thanks for visiting!First it was the peanuts and the peanut butter. Now it’s the pistachios which have [...]
Tags: pistachios, product recalls, Salmonella, US FDA
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I am one of those who subscribe to updates from the US FDA and other US health agencies because it’s part of my job as a medical writer to keep updated on health and medical issues. I usually get an update every 2 or 3 days, which usually concerns pharmaceutical approvals, warnings, and recalls. However [...]
Tags: peanut, peanut butter, recall, Salmonella
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My kids love pancakes and waffles and I always prepare one or the other for breakfast once a week on a no-daycare day. We used to get Aunt Jemima mixes of everything, from pancakes to brownies at the PX stores in Frankfurt, thanks to kind American friends. Now living in Switzerland and away from PX [...]
Tags: Aunt Jemima, pancake and waffle mix, Salmonella
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The FDA has just issued a warning about possible contamination of cantaloupes coming from Honduras, specifically from the company Agropecuaria Montelibano. Cantaloupes shipment of this company has been detained because they have been linked to Salmonella outbreaks in 16 states.
Symptoms of Salmonella infection contracted through food include:
diarrhea
nausea
vomiting
fever
abdominal pain and cramps
However, there is no reason to [...]
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Good news organic consumers! Organic eggs are found to have lower Salmonella, a bacterium that causes food poisoning worldwide, compared to non-organic ones. Recent survey by the UK Soil Association as reported by Natural Choices showed that 23.4 % of farms with caged hens were positive for Salmonella compared to 4.4 % in organic birds [...]
Tags: eggs, food poisoning, free-ranged, organic, Salmonella
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