Recall of listeria-tainted cheese, other items sold to Walmart, Costco, Whole Foods, Target | OregonLive.com
Here’s a list of the recalled items:
16-ounce Parkers peanut butter in square plastic containers (tub with snap-on lid), including creamy, crunchy, honey creamy and honey crunchy varieties with a sell by date before 3/20/2015;
34-ounce Parkers peanut butter in round plastic containers (tub with snap-on lid), including creamy and crunchy varieties with a sell by date before 3/20/2015;
12-ounce Parkers spreads in round or square plastic containers (tub with snap-on lid), including jalapeño and pimento varieties with a sell by date before 9/20/2014;
8-ounce and 16-ounce Parkers cold pack cheese in round plastic containers (tub with snap-on lid), including sharp cheddar, bacon, onion, smoked cheddar, Swiss almond, horseradish, garlic, port wine, and “Swiss & cheddar” varieties with a sell by date before 3/20/2015;
16-ounce Parkers salsa in round plastic containers (tub with snap-on lid), including hot, mild, garlic, and fire-roasted varieties with a sell by date before 7/20/2014;
10-ounce Parkers cheese balls or logs (plastic overwrap), including sharp cheddar, port wine, ranch, and “smokey bacon” varieties with a sell by date before 3/20/2015;
10-ounce Happy Farms cheese balls (plastic overwrap), including sharp cheddar and port wine varieties with a sell by date before 3/20/2015;
16-ounce Happy Farms cold pack cheese in round plastic containers (tub with snap-on lid), including sharp cheddar and port wine varieties with a sell by date before 3/20/2015;
8-ounce Central Markets cold pack cheese in round plastic containers (tub with snap-on lid), including sharp cheddar, port wine, horseradish, and Swiss almond varieties with a sell by date before 3/20/2015;
12-ounce and 20-ounce Hy-Top cheese spread in round plastic containers (tub with snap-on lid), including pimento and jalapeño varieties with a sell by date before 9/20/2014;
8-ounce Amish Classic cold pack cheese in round plastic containers (tub with snap-on lid), including sharp cheddar, port wine, and Swiss almond varieties with a sell by date before 3/20/2015;
14-ounce Say Cheez beer cheese in round plastic container (tub with snap on lid), including regular and hot varieties with a sell by date before 3/20/2015;
10-ounce Win Schuler original variety cheese balls or logs (plastic overwrap) with a sell by date before 3/20/2015;
8-ounce,12-ounce, and 14-ounce Bucky Badger cheese spreads (tub with snap-on lid) including cheddar, port wine, bacon, garlic, horseradish, jalapeño, and Swiss almond varieties with a sell by date before 3/20/2015; and
5-pound foodservice products including cold pack cheese foods, cheese spreads and peanut butter with a sell by date before 3/20/2015.
Listeria can cause a range of gastrointestinal symptoms as well as fever, severe headache and neck stiffness. It can also be fatal and poses a particular threat to pregnant women, causing stillbirths and miscarriages.
WHO chief raises prospect of ban on live poultry sales | South China Morning Post
Dr Margaret Chan Fung Fu-chun, formerly Hong Kong’s director of health, also said that the regional culture of eating fresh chicken would have to evolve to help governments fight the diseases.
In her keynote address on infectious diseases delivered in Hong Kong yesterday at a conference on investment in Asia, Chan said that so far there was no global pandemic of H5N1 and H7N9 bird flu. But she warned of the “amazing ability” the viruses had to mutate, making them harder to control.
Unsustainable food production methods, such as overcrowding livestock, have been contributing to the spread of infectious diseases. Wet markets in particular have become breeding grounds for new strains of viruses and hotspots for infection, Chan said.
When asked whether the government should halt live poultry sales here, she said it was an idea it “should consider”.
Wet markets selling live poultry are not common in many parts of the world, but in Hong Kong and parts of southern Asia there is still an appetite for fresh chicken, she said. “You can’t just blame the government.”
Chan said she believes the Hong Kong government is trying to encourage a change in that culture.
via WHO chief raises prospect of ban on live poultry sales | South China Morning Post.
Redskins Owner Starts Charity So That You’ll Forget About the Racist Team Name – The Wire
Crippling poverty and institutional racism are both bad things, and just because eradicating poverty is more urgent than changing a racist team name does not mean that the latter issue ceases to exist. This is, of course, not even broaching the idea that poverty and racism might somehow be intertwined.
via Redskins Owner Starts Charity So That You’ll Forget About the Racist Team Name – The Wire.
Wells Fargo launches social media command center – Denver Business Journal
(Have to wonder how long it will be before, someone is sued for “corporate” slander or that they start looking to see if those making negative remarks are account holders?)
About 30 people monitor the buzz about Wells Fargo among users of social media, with a dozen of those employees based in the San Francisco center.
So far, Wells’ command center has learned that it must develop better explanations of its “hold policies” in accepting deposits, said Renee Brown, the bank’s director of social media and a long-time marketing executive at the bank. Hold policies are a long-time complaint about the banking industry.
via Wells Fargo launches social media command center – Denver Business Journal.
Irish activist and sex abuse survivor becomes unlikely papal adviser, demands accountability
“There’s no point in my mind of having gold-plated child-protection programs in place if there’s no sanction for a bishop who decides to ignore them,” Collins said by telephone from her home in Dublin. “The reason everyone is so angry is not because they have abusers in their ranks. Abusers are in every rank of society. It’s because of the systemic coverup.”
via Irish activist and sex abuse survivor becomes unlikely papal adviser, demands accountability.
H5N1: Eyewitness testimony from the heart of Guinea’s Ebola outbreak
“At the start, neither the patients nor the doctors understood what was happening. There was talk of a mysterious illness that was similar to cholera and typhoid fever. Some patients snuck out of hospitals to get the opinion of traditional practitioners, which only helped spread the virus.
When a family member is sick, all of his relatives stay by his bedside
“In this city, like in surrounding towns, people don’t know what to do. When a family member is sick, all of his relatives stay by his bedside. Then, once they die, since it’s unthinkable to abandon a body, the body is buried. At any one of these moments, loved ones risk being infected.
“It is essential to do real work on the risks and means of transmission. Up until now, the authorities have broadcast advice over local radio, but that isn’t enough. I think that we don’t have an exact idea of the number of infected people because we only count people that are admitted for treatment. But there’s probably a lot more if we include surrounding towns and villages.”
via H5N1: Eyewitness testimony from the heart of Guinea’s Ebola outbreak.
ECDC finds only one in three MDR TB patients complete treatment | Vaccine News Daily
Multi-drug-resistant TB on rise
The data, which was jointly created by the World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, found that only one out of every three patients with MDR TB infections successfully completed treatment. More than half of all MDR TB patients died, did not follow recommended treatment plans or stopped treatment all together.
Only seven out of 21 countries reported maintaining a five-year decline in MDR TB notification rates. Across the EU, the rate of MDR TB treatment success is approximately 30 percent below the target of 70 percent set by the EU Framework Action Plan to Fight Tuberculosis.
via ECDC finds only one in three MDR TB patients complete treatment | Vaccine News Daily.
Serious Resistant Infections Increasingly Found in Children – Wired Science
the really unnerving thing (though not new to anyone who has followed the ESBL story) is the high proportions of resistance that were found in children when they came to outpatient clinics: in 2010-11, 37.6 percent of the third-generation cephalosporin resistance and 48.8 percent of the ESBLs. The authors note that there is no way to know whether those children had previously been hospitalized, so it is possible they could have picked up those resistant bacteria inside a healthcare institution. But it is also possible that ESBL is spreading in children in the outside world. And that suggests that the problem of these difficult-to-treat bacteria is larger than anyone knows or can count.
via Serious Resistant Infections Increasingly Found in Children – Wired Science.
The dependent generation: half young European adults live with their parents | Society | The Guardian
An Italian family eating their meal. In Italy, 79% of young adults were living with their parents in 2011, according to Eurofound. Photograph: Ingolf Hatz/ Ingolf Hatz/zefa/Corbis
Almost half of Europe’s young adults are living with their parents, new data suggests – a record level of dependency that has sobering social and demographic implications for the continent.




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