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Are you cereus?
Our usual evening schedule is dinner, a bit of hockey on TV and then wind the kids down with books or a bath before bed. Sometimes it takes 20 minutes to get them to sleep, sometimes 2 hrs. After...
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Rot, corruption at Thai rice warehouses
Inspectors found rotten and weevil-infested grain, along with evidence that large stocks were replaced with old or inferior grades. Corruption under the previous government’s rice-pledging scheme was...
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44 kids sickened: Ottawa Chinese food takeout fined in summer camp food...
A west Ottawa restaurant has been fined by Ottawa Public Health after rice it served made dozens of people sick and sent six children to hospital from a summer camp. Paramedics were called to St....
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Temperature control: Bacillus cereus cases on rise
Bacillus cereus bacteria is one of the potential causes of food poisoning. A recent study in Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry shows that this versatile pathogen produces 19 different variants of...
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Government regulation is coming to US sushi
Cynthia LaBelle-Tun, president of Edo Sushi Express. writes in Food Safety Magazine that she has been involved in the sushi industry since 2000 when my husband, Thihan Tun, and I opened Tun Asian...
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Why government regulation is coming to sushi
Cynthia Labelle-Tun, president of Edo Sushi Express, writes in Food Safety Magazine: I have been involved in the sushi industry since 2000 when my husband, Thihan Tun, and I opened Tun Asian Foods. We...
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Food fraud ‘Plastic rice’ seized in Nigeria
Martin Patience of BBC News reports Nigeria has confiscated 2.5 tonnes of “plastic rice” smuggled into the country by unscrupulous businessmen, the customs service says. Lagos customs chief Haruna...
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Leftover rice risks from Lifehacker
One of my former roommates was a straight edge punk-loving vegan for a while. Now he eats meat and drinks beer, but for a while he survived on rice and sriracha. Sometimes he left his steamed rice out...
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Food inspector in the house: Petting zoo, sushi and school fete
Grey nomading is a term I never heard until I came to Australia. Same with fete. A grey nomad is “a retired person who travels independently and for an extended period within their own country,...
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11 dead, dozens ill after eating rice at Indian temple
I never get rice. Only a little temperature abuse can cause a lot of barfing. Rice is grown in the ground, is laden with various spore-forming bacteria, which spring to life when the temperature and...
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