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Food poisoning hard to prove – and complaint records hard to get
The Ottawa E. coli case that prompted the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit to bar restaurants from serving raw kibbeh may not have been caused by the ground beef dish after all. Eric Leclair, head of...
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Multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections linked to ground beef
Kibbeh, steak tartare, whatever the Japanese call their version: it’s all raw hamburger so there’s a risk. I’m not here to preach – after two months in the southern U.S. there’s more than enough...
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NPR, fail: raw beef kibbeh blamed in Salmonella outbreak; is steak tartare next?
Twenty years after the Jack-in-the-Box outbreak raised the risks of E. coli O157:H7 and undercooked beef to the national stage, and the best state-sponsored jazz can do is ask, “is steak tartare next?”...
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18 now sick from Salmonella linked to kibbeh in Michigan
CDC reports a total of 18 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Typhimurium have been reported from 5 states. The number of ill persons identified in each state is as follows: Arizona...
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Raw hamburger Kibbeh banned in Windsor Lebanese restaurants
Kibbeh – a Lebanese dish made from raw hamburger – is off the menus in Windsor, Ontario (that’s in Canada). Windsor-Essex County Health Unit inspectors are forcing Lebanese restaurants to pull product...
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Do Ontario bureaucrats think it’s OK to serve raw hamburger to children?
The other thing about food bans is enforcement. It’s a simple question: does the Ontario government think it’s OK to serve raw hamburger to little kids? Apparently it does. The Windsor Star (that’s in...
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Kibbeh kontroversy: is raw hamburger banned in Ontario or not? And how should...
A month after an Ontario health unit decided to enforce a ban on kibbeh – a Lebanese dish made from raw hamburger – one restaurant says it will serve the dish processed instead of ground, sidestepping...
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