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Better food poisoning awareness amongst docs after E. coli O157 inquiry in Wales
Looks like the E. coli O157 death of 5-year-old Mason Jones, the illnesses of 160 other Welsh schoolchildren and the subsequent inquiry headed by Prof. Hugh Pennington were not entirely in vain. The South Wales Echo is reporting today that...
Groundhog Day continues for E. coli prof
Harold Ramis, right, the famed director of Groundhog Day – and writer of dozens of hit comedies, beginning with Animal House -- must be involved in this. Professor Hugh Pennington (left, below), who authored reports following outbreaks of E.coli, in...
Three-year-old recovering from E coli but woman still in coma
A three-year-old girl who needed dialysis after being caught up in an E coli outbreak is beginning to recover in hospital, her parents said today. Abigail Hussey suffered kidney failure after eating from a takeaway in Wrexham, north Wales, and...
Food safety culture more fashion than fact for posers
On Aug. 23, 2008, Maple Leaf CEO Michael McCain took to the Intertubes to apologize for an expanding outbreak of listeriosis that would eventually kill 22 people. As part of his speech, McCain said that Maple Leaf has “a strong...
Tragic food safety stories and teaching moments
This is what happens when doing interviews at 6:30 a.m. while feeding Sorenne some mush of peach and pear. After blogging about how the U.K. Food Standards Agency was embracing food safety culture, I turned the post into an opinion...
'Change culture to avoid E. coli'
Amy’s father and stepmom came for a visit and yesterday we went to a local eatery for a late lunch. When Amy’s dad ordered a burger, the server asked how he would like the burger cooked. He said medium-well. The...
Can food safety culture be taught? UK Food Standards Agency responds to E. coli O157 report
Two days ago, the parents of 5-year-old E. coli victim Mason Jones called the Welsh government response to an inquiry into the 2005 outbreak, “a bit disappointing.” Today, the U.K. Food Standards Agency published its own response and, it’s a...
Welsh government responds to E. coli outbreak report; parents of Mason say it's not enough
After the 2005 E. coli O157 outbreak which killed 5-year-old Mason Jones and sickened 160 schoolchildren in Wales, Professor Hugh Pennington led a public inquiry which revealed the futility of food safety training, government inspection, and pretty much anything to...
Wales E. coli O157 parents: All food safety inspections should be unannounced
In his report into the 2005 epidemic that struck down more than 150 people, most of them children, across the South Wales Valleys and claimed the life of Mason Jones, aged five (right), Professor Hugh Pennington found that all of...
Should food safety inspectors get fired if they screw up? Welsh parents say yes
Ya can’t inspect your way to a safe food supply. For all those in Canada and America clamoring for more inspectors, please, read the report Bill-Murray-in-Groundhog-Day impersonator Professor Hugh Pennington wrote after the 2005 E. coli O157 outbreak in Wales,...
Lessons from Wales; fallacy of food safety inspections
Do more inspectors make food safer? No. The latest evidence is from Professor Hugh Pennington, who concluded in a report last week that serious failings at every step in the food chain allowed butcher William Tudor to start the 2005...
Microbiologically safe food - regardless of farm size
Daughter Courtlynn spent her spring break with daughter Sorenne in Manhattan (Kansas). Which is the only lede I got into foodborne illness, conspiracies and shameless exploitation of children. The conclusion is this: Michelle Obama should use the White House garden...
E. coli report: lots of blame to go around in Wales
Five-year-old Mason Jones died a painful and unnecessary death. Mason (right) died Oct. 4, 2005, from E. coli O157 as part of an outbreak which sickened 161 -- primarily schoolchildren -- in south Wales. Mason’s mother, Sharon Mills, said in...
Butcher of Wales report out Thursday
During an inquiry last year, Prof Hugh Pennington heard how John Tudor and Son, known on barfblog as the Butcher of Wales, used the same machine to vacuum package both raw and cooked meats, leading to an E. coli O157:H7...
E. coli sickens seven in Canada
Any cases of E. coli O157:H7 are "heart-wrenching.” That’s what Tanya Maksymic, whose daughter Julia became seriously sick with E. coli in 2007, told the Calgary Herald after hearing that public health types are investigating a cluster of five cases...
E. coli continues to kill and maim
There’s a lot of E. coli, the kind that sickens and kills, circulating around the U.S. In addition to the Locust Grove, OK, outbreak of E. coli O111 which has killed one and sickened 314, E. coli O157:H7 continues its...
Want effective food safety communication? Put a name and a face on victims
Acording to the Western Mail, in a speech tomorrow, Professor Hugh Pennington will tell world food safety experts at FoodMicro in Aberdeen that “we owe it to people like Mason Jones” to ensure “top-rate” safety systems are put in place....
Wales: E. coli lessons 'were not learned'
The families of the 150 sickened and one killed in the 2005 E. coli O157 outbreak in Wales told a public inquiry today it was "galling" that lessons from other outbreaks were not learned and that the events caused "lasting...
Bureaucrats: We were told to take a "softly softly" approach to food safety plans in Wales
The families of the E. coli victims in the 2005 outbreak in Wales believe the public officials charged with protecting their families failed in their duty, but that butcher William Tudor “motivated by greed and profit bears the principal responsibility...
Hygiene failures in Wales similar to Scottish E. coli outbreak
This barfblogging stuff can be fairly cool (thanks, Bill). I wrote an opinion piece about the on-going inquiry into the 2005 E. coli O157 outbreak in Wales, and how the findings to date were somewhat similar to what happened after...
Mother tells how E. coli killed son
Sharon Mills, 33, whose five-year-old son Mason Jones died in 2005 after contracting E. coli O157, told the public inquiry in Wales today that she was devastated when she learned he had the bug. In her statement to the inquiry,...
Professor Hugh Pennington has become unstuck in time. More like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, than Billy Pilgrim. In November 1996, over 400 fell ill and 21 were killed in Scotland by E. coli O157:H7 found in deli meats produced...
E. coli butcher's meat 'was smelly but cheap'
E. coli butcher William Tudor supplied schools with meat that was green, smelly and undercooked but retained his contract because he was cheap. The Western Mail reports that even though school cooks raised numerous concerns, Tudor was not seen as...
E. coli butcher played Russian Roulette with school meals
Brian Curtis, a retired senior Food Standards Agency official, who now works as a freelance food safety consultant, told a public inquiry that the use of a single vacuum packing machine for both raw and cooked meat at E. coli...
E. coli butcher failed to follow food safety rules
A food safety inspector who visited John Tudor & Son five times in 2005 told the E. coli inquiry in Wales today that although a single vac-pac machine was being used for cooked and raw meat, the business did not...
E.coli butcher: How the system failed
A public inquiry heard Friday about a string of failures by food safety officers responsible for inspections of William Tudor’s meat plant leading up to the September, 2005 E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. The South Wales Echo reported that Amy Lewis,...
E.coli butcher hid factory filth
South Wales Echo is reporting that the factory run by E.coli butcher William Tudor contained a filthy meat slicer, cluttered and dirty chopping areas, and meat more than two years out of date piled in a freezer. Professor Chris Griffith,...
E.coli butcher lied about his hygiene awards
Colin Houston, deputy head of the enforcement division of the UK Food Standards Agency told a public inquiry yesterday that E.coli butcher William Tudor (nice tag line) falsified crucial health and safety documents and even lied about receiving hygiene awards....
E. coli butcher encouraged ill staff to prepare meat
The public inquiry into the 2005 E. coli outbreak in Wales began yesterday and already the evidence is shocking -- or, maybe, all too common. Professor Chris Griffith, head of the food research and consultancy unit at the University of...
Pediatrician says, irradiate beef, for kids' sake
Harry Hull, of St. Paul, a pediatrician who served as the state epidemiologist for the Minnesota Health Department from 2000 to '06 and is currently a consultant in infectious disease epidemiology, writes in AgWeek that, “A year of eating dangerously:...
Johnny Depp: Words can't describe pain of daughter's E. coli illness
Johnny Depp tells Entertainment Weekly in its Nov. 9 issue that his eight-year-old daughter, Lily, is now healthy and well following her hospitalization this year after contracting what was believed to be an E. coli O157. "Now every single millisecond...
Spent yesterday driving to Oklahoma City and back to speak at the Food Industry Trends conference put on by Oklahoma State University. At one point, our contractor, Russell, called to review some plans and I asked him to tell me...
The Western Mail writes in a scathing editorial this morning that the conditions in some Welsh schools, outlined in the final report of the E. coli O157 outbreak in 2005 that left a five-year-old dead and over 100 sick, would...
Sharon Mills, the mother of five-year-old Mason Jones, said she will campaign for a change in the law after William John Tudor, the butcher who caused the Wales E. coli O157 outbreak that killed Mason, was jailed for 12 months,...
The South Wales Argus Newsdesk has just reported that William John Tudor, 55, of Clemenstone, Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, the butcher who supplied schools with meat infected with E. coli O157, was given a 12-month prison sentence today after admitting...
E. coli outbreak butcher guilty again; jail likely
Meat.info.co.uk is reporting that John Tudor, of Tudor & Sons today pleaded guilty for failing to ensure that the raw and cooked meat during handling, storage, packaging, display and transportation within the business at his premises was protected against contamination...
E. coli outbreak butcher pleads guilty
Five-year-old Mason Jones died a painful and unnecessary death. On Oct. 30, 2005, Sharon Mills, Mason's grief-stricken mother, recounted the events leading to her son's death on BBC Radio Wales: "His head was soaking wet and he was drifting in...
