- Here we go again, this time it's Botulism in Chili Sauce. I
have lost count of the food recalls since August 2006. Remember the spinach
and onion fiascos?
- How safe is our food? It's Not! I dread the day when
the NAU highway to perdition opens and those Chinese poisons come trucking
on in. The recall list will be massive then.
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- Maybe ladies can use the chile sauce it on their faces
as anti wrinkle cream! Not!
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- Patty
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- BOTULISM, CHILI SAUCE - USA ALERT, RECALL
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- Date: Wed 18 Jul 2007
- Source: US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) (edited)
- http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2007/NEW01669.html
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- The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning consumers
not to eat 10-ounce (283.5 gm) cans of Castleberry's Hot Dog Chili Sauce
(UPC 3030000101), Austex Hot Dog Chili Sauce (UPC 3030099533), and Kroger
Hot Dog Chili Sauce (UPC 1111083942) with "best by" dates from
30 Apr 2009 through 22 May 2009, due to possible botulism contamination.
Botulism can be fatal. The "best by" dates can be found on the
can lids.
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- Consumers who have any of these products or any foods
made with these products should throw them away immediately. If the "best
by" date is missing or unreadable consumers should throw the product
out.
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- [As of 18 Jul 2007,] 2 children in Texas and an Indiana
couple who ate these products had become seriously ill and been hospitalized.
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- Symptoms of botulism poisoning can begin from 6 hours
to 2 weeks after eating food that contains the toxin. Symptoms may include
double vision, blurred vision, drooping eyelids, slurred speech, difficulty
swallowing, dry mouth, and muscle weakness that moves progressively down
the body, affecting the shoulders 1st, then descending to the upper arms,
lower arms, thighs, calves, etc. Botulism poisoning can also cause paralysis
of the breathing muscles, which can result in death unless assistance with
breathing (mechanical ventilation) is provided.
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- Individuals who show these symptoms and who may have
recently eaten Castleberry's Hot Dog Chili Sauce, Austex Hot Dog Chili
Sauce, or Kroger Hot Dog Chili Sauce should seek immediate medical attention.
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- All of the products cited are manufactured by the Castleberry
Food Company in Augusta, Georgia. Castleberry has informed the FDA that
it is voluntarily recalling all of the potentially contaminated products
and is cooperating with FDA, the CDC (US Centers for Disease Control &
Prevention), and the states' active investigations into the cause of this
contamination and scope of the product distribution.
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- Communicated by
- ProMED-mail
- promed@promedmail.org
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- In North America, most of the ProMED-mail posts related
to botulism food recalls concern food products that, by virtue of a problem
in manufacture, have the risk of spore germination and production of one
of the botulism toxins by vegetative _Clostridium botulinum_. Unlike recalls
related to other foodborne disease, which require human cases linked to
the recall for posting, the high morbidity and mortality of botulism causes
ProMED-mail to post all botulism-related recalls whether cases are linked
or not. In this circumstance, however, 4 cases appear to be linked. The
posting does not state what serotype of botulinum neurotoxin is the culprit
here and what the scope of the implicated vehicle's distribution was.
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- The recent (2006) cluster of cases of botulism related
to carrot juice in the USA and Canada involved 7 cases. Prior to that,
over the past 30 years, 2 notable USA foodborne outbreaks related to distributed
food have occurred. One was in the New York area, involving commercially
produced vichyssoise soup in June/July 1971 (type A) (CDC: Botulism associated
with commercial vichyssoise (Morbid Mortal Week Rep 1971; 20: 242) and
another involving home-canned green peppers in Michigan in March/April
1977 (Terranova W, Breman JG, Locey RP, Speck S: Botulism type B: Epidemiologic
aspects of an extensive outbreak. Am J Epidemiol 1978; 108: 150-6). --Mod.LL
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- Patricia A. Doyle DVM, PhD
- Bus Admin, Tropical Agricultural Economics
- Univ of West Indies
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board at:
- http://www.emergingdisease.org/phpbb/index.php
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- Zhan le Devlesa tai sastimasa
- Go with God and in Good Health
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