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Salmonella and Three E. Coli Strains Have Been Found in People Who Ate the Same Alfalfa Sprouts

Minnesota and Wisconsin report about 40 illnesses from Calco and Everything Sprouts alfalfa sprouts, involving Salmonella and three E. coli strains.

Medical Daily · Aug 21

Maharashtra FDA suspends licences of Radio Club, Khar Gymkhana, 11 others for violation of hygiene norm

The Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has suspended the food business licences of Bombay Presidency Radio Club, a McDonald’s outlet in south Mumbai and 12 other food establishments across the state for alleged food safety and hygiene violations.

The Economic Times · Aug 21

Patients and Researchers Push Back on Cancer Drug Doses That May Be Higher Than Treatment Requires

A KFF Health News investigation finds cancer drugs are often approved at doses higher than needed, leaving patients with avoidable side effects.

Medical Daily · Aug 21

How Cone Snail Venom Became a Powerful Painkiller: The Ocean Toxin That Changed Medicine

A Shell That Can Kill YouPick up a cone snail on a beach and it will not wait. The animal fires a hollow, harpoon-like tooth called a radula through its flesh, through yours, and injects venom in under a second. There is no antidote. In documented fatalities, death from respiratory…

Times Life · Aug 21

Horseshoe Crab Blood Powers Every Vaccine and Injection You Have Ever Been Given

The blue blood that guards every hospital on EarthHorseshoe crab blood is blue. Not metaphorically, literally blue, because it uses copper-based hemocyanin to carry oxygen instead of the iron-based hemoglobin that makes human blood red. But the colour is not why the biomedical industry harvests roughly 600,000 horseshoe crabs every…

Times Life · Aug 21

Is Your Supermarket Food Safe? 'Rubbery' Fruit and Bizarre Jelly Juice Spark Terror in Viral Videos

Social-media posts alleging 'fake food' show unusual textures in everyday groceries. Here is what the videos prove, and what they do not.

International Business Times UK · Aug 20

Suit Alleging Medical Establishment's Desire to Compel Doctors "to Toe the Line in All Matters Related to COVID …" Can Go Forward

"Nor is it evident that the approach taken by Defendants insulated the process from undue 'political influence.' To the contrary, political influence would appear to have been the point."

Reason · Aug 20

America’s jalapeño salmonella outbreak isn’t over

Salmonella is responsible for an average of 1.35 million infections in the U.S. each year

The Independent UK · Aug 20

A Bronx Bakery Recalls Five Breads Sold in Bodegas After a Routine FDA Inspection Found Label Errors

Prince Bakery recalled five breads sold in Bronx and Westchester bodegas after an FDA inspection found undeclared milk and sesame.

Medical Daily · Aug 20

The Jalapeño Salmonella Outbreak Grew by 86 Cases and Five States in a Single CDC Update

CDC now counts 431 Salmonella cases across 32 states tied to jalapeño peppers, up from 345 cases in 27 states, with 57 hospitalized.

Medical Daily · Aug 20