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VIRGINIA: Restaurant inspections
7/18/2008
The News Leader
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IDAHO: New dining resource for Ada County residents
7/18/2008
Fox 12 News
KTRV
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Boise, Idaho -- Residents now have a new way to pick out some of the best dining spots in Ada County.
The Central District Health Department has started a web service where people can ask to be notified of recent restaurant health inspection results by email.
The cleanest eateries are being recognized as gold star establishments, which is great for business.
For example, at Coldfuzion Frozen Yogurt on Fairview Avenue, while the tart yogurt flavors and fresh fruits are drawing customers, so is the company's new gold star health rating.
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AUSTRALIA: Illness and injury claim more pilgrims
7/18/2008
Herald Sun
www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24039857-5005961,00.html
Sickness and injury continue to scourge pilgrims visiting Sydney for World Youth Day (WYD).
More pilgrims have fallen ill with influenza and gastroenteritis, and almost 250 have received emergency treatment for injuries suffered at WYD event sites.
Almost 120 pilgrims had been diagnosed with influenza or were showing flu-like symptoms as of 10am (AEST) today, New South Wales Health said in a statement.
Affected pilgrims have been staying at schools, a church hall and Sydney's Olympic Park at Homebush.
"Since yesterday morning there has been a steady increase in the incidence of influenza among pilgrims," NSW Ambulance Service chief executive Greg Rochford told reporters in Sydney.
A further 23 pilgrims staying at St Therese's Primary School at Denistone, in Sydney's north, were suffering viral gastroenteritis.
TEXAS: Illness closes Fort Worth swimming hole
7/18/2008
Star-Telegram.com
Alex Branch and Jan Jarvis
www.star-telegram.com/metro_news/story/766729.html
FORT WORTH -- Wynette Dollar’s ears perked when she heard mention on her car radio Thursday of Burger’s Lake closing because of concerns that a waterborne parasite was making swimmers ill.
Her grandchildren from Kansas had swum at the popular west Fort Worth swimming hole July 5, she said. Since then, three have been sick with diarrhea, fever and sore throats.
So the Azle woman drove straight to the lake hoping for more information.
"I’m worried; they’ve been really sick," Dollar said at the locked gates. "The doctor said it wasn’t strep. I just want to find out what to tell them."
At least eight people have been sickened by cryptosporidiosis, commonly known as "crypto," and health officials said they are investigating whether the lake is the source.
For the complete news item, please visit http://www.star-telegram.com/metro_news/story/766729.html
US: As FDA says tomatoes are safe, growers criticize agency
7/18/2008
Sacramento Bee
Jim Downing
www.sacbee.com/103/story/1091905.html
Was slicing tomatoes from our menus worth it?
More than 1,200 people in 42 states now have been sickened by a rare strain of salmonella bacteria carried on tomatoes … or maybe hot peppers. Or maybe both.
Produce industry leaders, furious over the muddled investigation, are demanding the government be more certain the next time it banishes tons of vegetables to the garbage. Congressional hearings have been set for the end of the month.
"They have this zero-tolerance policy, and it really doesn't make much sense," said Jim Prevor, a produce industry consultant and editor of Produce Business magazine. "They ignore all of these cases, but on the odd chance they get knowledge of (an outbreak), they become like Ahab pursuing the whale."
Epidemiologists say the kind of certainty the industry seeks is beyond the reach of their science. Investigators often must rely on the ability of outbreak victims to recall details of meals eaten weeks in the past. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employs some of the world's best food-safety investigators, but their conclusions are often somewhat uncertain and occasionally flat wrong.
"We have to do the right thing based on the evidence we have, even if it's not great evidence," said Tim Jones, the Tennessee state epidemiologist and a veteran outbreak investigator.
"You hate to hurt an industry and cause $100 million in damage. On the other hand, I don't think any of us could sleep if we … didn't say something and then a kid died the next day."
Tom Nassif, chief executive of the Western Growers Association, a powerful industry group, suggested agencies be required to find a piece of produce carrying the pathogen linked to an outbreak before they issue a major food-safety warning.
"If they're going to do that kind of economic damage to a commodity group, then they should have a very firm foundation for making that determination," he said.
Nassif's group and others are asking Congress to compensate farmers, packers and others who lost money following the tomato warning.
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