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We've found a whole panel of judges in Jakarta who are our kind of guys!

They've accepted David M.L Tobing’s lawsuit against the Bogor Institute of Agriculture (IPB), the Food and Drug Monitoring Agency (BPOM) and the Health Minister. In the verdict, the panel ordered the defendants to announce the brands of formula milk and baby food products contaminated by the Enterobacter sakazakii bacteria, as indicated in their research and
reported in the newspapers and websites.

The panel of judges led by Reno Listowo said if the brands are not published, people will worry and be afraid to buy baby milk and food products. The judge added that the public has the right to know which products are safe and which are contaminated.

David’s plea was triggered by an IPB study that indicated some formula milk and baby foods were Enterobacter sakazakii-contaminated.

This report comes to us from TEMPO Interactive.

For more, go here.

 

 

 

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UCD Centre for Food Safety presents a conference to be held at University College Dublin, Ireland over two days from Thursday January 22nd to Friday January 23rd in 2009.

The conference is intended as a forum to disseminate information between industry, clinicians, government bodies and academic research. This will be the first conference of its kind where representatives from all these disciplines with an interest in this area are gathered together to exchange ideas.

The conference will include sessions on taxonomy, identification, surveillance, occurrence, public health and risk assessment. Workshops will be held after each series of talks to provide an opportunity for questions and open discussion.

The conference will include poster as well as oral presentations and abstracts are invited.

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Do some Wild Vineyard products, made by Health Trek  in Manitoba poise a health  risk,  including  Enterobacter  Sakazakii,   as  Health  Canada  has twice warned  or  not?


We  raise  the question  because  the Selkirk,  Manitoba  Journal gave  a lot of ink  last Friday to  Health Trek's owner , who  claims to be outraged by  twice being on the  wrong  end of  a  Health  Canada  warnings to the public  not to  consume his company's products.  The  Journal reports:

A Selkirk business owner is outraged Health Canada has issued its second warning in seven months, saying some of his product may pose a health risk to consumers.

Health Canada issued the warning July 22, saying 11 herbal Wild Vineyard products, distributed by Health Trek company owner Terry Bell, located at 371 Eveline St., may be unhealthy.

Paul Duchesne, a Health Canada spokesperson, said the newest release gives additional information on Wild Vineyard products that pose a health risk.

He said different bacteria have been detected in different products, adding some of the bacteria found that pose a potential health risk include E. Coli, Enterobacter sakazakii, Klebsiella pneumoniae and excessive levels of aerobic bacteria, including species of bacillus.

On the Health Canada website, a news release listed products which have been found to contain “unacceptable levels of bacterial contamination and/or heavy metal contamination, such as lead.”

Symptoms of exposure to heavy metals include nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting, muscle cramps, diarrhea, heart abnormalities, anemia, as well as bone, liver, kidney and nervous system problems.

Bacterial contamination of health products, meanwhile, can pose a risk to human health and may cause a variety of adverse effects, such as gastrointestinal upset and bacterial infection.

For more on the dispute, we suggest reading the entire story here.

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