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US: Nestlé recalls food possibly containing sharp plastic
11/21/2008
Register Pajaronian
Nestlé Prepared Foods announced Wednesday it is recalling approximately 879,565 pounds of frozen chicken meals that may contain foreign materials, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
The recall affects the company’s Lean Cuisine brands, including the 9.5-ounce package of Pesto Chicken with Bow Tie Pasta, the 10.5-package of Chicken Mediterranean and the 12.5-ounce package of Chicken Tuscan.
The problem was discovered after the company received consumer complaints and a report of one injury. The company identified the objects as small pieces of hard plastic. The FSIS has not received other reports of injury.
Anyone concerned about an injury from consumption of the products should consult a medical professional, health officials said.
Each package bears the USDA mark of inspection as well as the establishment number “EST P-9018.” The frozen chicken meals were produced on Aug. 18, Aug. 21, Aug. 28, Sept. 9, Sept. 19, Sept. 25, Sept. 30, Oct. 6, Oct. 17-18, Oct. 22 and Oct. 27 and were distributed to retail establishments nationwide.
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ONTARIO: Family shocked by 'stinky' juice boxes
11/21/2008
Jason Miller
TheStar.com
A southern Ontario family is rattled that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has yet to issue a public warning about faulty juice boxes that could pose health risks to consumers.
The Waterford, Ont., family discovered the damaged juice boxes when Jennifer Degroot bought a case of 40 Dole juice boxes back in May for her two children, Johnny, 8, and Jessica, 5. The mother said she was shocked when her daughter complained one of the juice boxes "smelled stinky."
"She went to get a juice box and she came to me with it and said it stunk," said Degroot, the daughter of co-complainant Bill Mason. "That's when I took it from her and I noticed it was bloated and it had the maggots on it."
For the complete news item, please visit http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/540917
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OKLAHOMA officials clear Locust Grove eatery to open
11/21/2008
Nolan Clay
NewsOK
LOCUST GROVE -- State health officials have decided a restaurant blamed for a food-poisoning outbreak can reopen, but its owners still face an uncertain future because some customers plan to sue.
The owners’ attorney, A. Mark Smiling of Tulsa, said, "They were trying to get open this week, whenever they get restaffed.”
The popular buffet-style restaurant closed Aug. 25 after customers began suffering from severe diarrhea and other problems. One customer died. Health officials said they believe several foods at the restaurant became contaminated with rare toxin-producing bacteria known as E. coli O111.
For the complete news item, please visit http://newsok.com/oklahoma-officials-clear-locust-grove-eatery-to-open/article/3323907
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FLORIDA: Dirty dining: A special undercover investigation
11/21/2008
Tara Cardoso
News 12
You use your hands all the time, but do you wash them just as often? Every day people are touching dirty surfaces, bodily fluids and then other people. You wouldn't go under the knife with surgeons who hadn't washed their hands. So, what about a cook who skipped the soap? CBS 12's I-Team explores this hidden danger in restaurants for this week's Dirty Dining.
It's more common than you think. Some restaurant employees are touching your food without washing their hands. What you can't see, can't hurt you? Right? Wrong.
Our CBS 12 I-Team hidden camera shows where those hands have been. We went to the Boca Breakfast and Lunch Club on Mizner Boulevard and found a server playing with her hair, eating and then delivering silverware. The other server was touching bread and putting it into the toaster with no handwashing taking place at all. It happens over and over again here. Another server was touching her hair, her face, and then the bagels with her bare hands. And another was touching her eye, then moments later, she grabbed someone's toast. Our undercover camera caught another one with her fingers around her mouth, wiping gunk out of her eyes, and digging in her ears. Then, off camera, she delivered the bagel to our producer without ever washing her hands. We found all of this at the Boca Breakfast and Lunch Club - a restaurant in our area with one of the highest number of hand hygiene violations.
For the complete news item, please visit http://www.cbs12.com/news/people_4710880___article.html/hands_dirty.html
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VIRGINIA: The restaurant report - part 4
11/21/2008
abc 13
Across the ABC 13 Viewing Area - Live roaches, rodent droppings, food at dangerously wrong temperatures -- Inspectors found all of these violations in October in restaurants in our area.
In our final Restaurant Report, an inside look at a kitchen with major problems and the only fast food restaurant on our list. Pittsylvania County's worst scorer in October was Napoli's Pizza in Gretna. Inspectors found six critical violations. Owners here would not speak to us on camera. But they did let us in to get a little bit of video and to look around.
First, we went to the upstairs storage area.
Shelley - "So this building's pretty old?" That's where inspectors found evidence of rodents, including droppings and a chewed up cup.
Shelley - "She said she found something over there."
We didn't find anything during our visit.
For the complete news item, please visit http://www.wset.com/news/stories/1108/571771.html
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