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Canada: Recalled beef concerns raised at local health unit Written by The behalal team for Home Industry News UK & World

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10/10/12  www.cbc.ca

Windsor-Essex County Health Unit says no local cases of E. Coli linked to XL Foods recall reported

The Windsor-Essex County Health Unit receives approximately a dozen calls a week inquiring about tainted beef and E. Coli. Fears of contaminated beef processed in Alberta’s XL Food plant have spread to more than 20 countries where the beef was shipped.

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UK: DVD guide for butchers launched Written by The behalal team for Health Home Industry News UK & World

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5/8/11 www.foodstandardsagency.gov.uk

meat butcherThe FSA has produced a DVD for those working in butchers shops to encourage them to think about the type of food safety risks they face in their business and how they should control them. It features three butchers talking about the steps they have taken to reduce food safety risks.

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EU: E. coli outbreaks linked to Egypt Written by The behalal team for Food Production Health Home Industry News UK & World

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30/6/11

By James GallagherHealth reporter, BBC News

Fenugreek seeds
Egyptian fenugreek seeds have been linked to both outbreaks

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British firm suspends sales of sprouting seeds over feared link to French E.Coli outbreak Written by The behalal team for Consumer Home Industry News UK & World

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27/6/11  www.telegraph.co.uk

A leading British seed company has suspended internet sales over fears their products may be linked to the E.Coli outbreak in France.

Britons have been warned against eating sprouting seeds such as been sprouts unless they have been properly cooked

Britons have been warned against eating sprouting seeds such as been sprouts unless they have been properly cooked Photo:

Germany’s E. coli Outbreak: A Global Lesson Written by The behalal team for Consumer Health Home Industry News UK & World

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18/6/11  www.foodsafetynews.com

By Gretchen Goetz

The gradually diminishing E. coli outbreak in Europe – the deadliest in recorded history – has subjected Germany to a hailstorm of criticism from the EU and abroad for taking too long to identify its likely source — bean and seed sprouts.
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Europe: E. coli outbreak: German farm in Uelzen ‘likely source’ Written by The behalal team for Consumer Health Home Industry News UK & World

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6/6/11 www.bbc.co.uk

The BBC’s Stephen Evans: “It looks as though it is this farm that is the epicentre of the outbreak”

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The food chain is almost broken. Who will reforge the links of trust? Written by The behalal team for Consumer Food Production Home Industry News UK & World

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5/6/11  www.guardian.co.uk

Contaminated cucumbers or a new strain of MRSA – we are all victims of profit, greed and globalisation.

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Outbreak is new form of E.coli Written by The behalal team for Health

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German cucumber E.coli outbreak ‘may last months’ Written by The behalal team for Consumer Health Home Industry News UK & World

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2/6/11 www.bbc.co.uk

Cucumbers at a farm near Almeria, Spain
Spain says its farmers have lost millions of euros since being wrongly accused

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UK: Food poisoning risk of handling packs of supermarket chicken Written by The behalal team for Consumer Home Industry News UK & World Meat & Poultry

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21/2/11 www.telegraph.co.uk

By Laura Roberts and Peter Hutchison

About half of chickens sold in leading supermarkets have potentially harmful bacteria on the outside of their packets, a Daily Telegraph investigation has found.

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