beef in Medical News

WinCo Foods Voluntarily Recalls Beef and Ground Beef Sold at Some Stores Between May 9 and May 15, 2009 Due to Possible Contamination

BOISE, Idaho, June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- WinCo Foods , LLC announced today that it is voluntarily recalling some beef and ground beef items sold at some of its stores between May 9th and May 15th. This action is prompted by the expanded recall of beef products by the JBS Swift Beef Company, which ye...

Bioniche Invited to Participate in Canadian Beef Value Chain Roundtable

- President of Bioniche Food Safety an invited speaker - BELLEVILLE, ON, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. (TSX: BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, announced that its President of Bioniche Food Safety, Rick Culb...

28th National Beef Cook-Off(R) Seeks 'Sonoma-Style' Recipe Entries

DENVER, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Sonoma is known for delicious food, great wine and beautiful scenery. In 2009, Sonoma will also be known for inventive beef recipes. The 28th National Beef Cook-Off will come to California in late September, during the peak of the area's beautiful harvest seaso...

New Test Scans Beef for Mad Cow Disease

Method enables real-time identification of contaminated tissue, study says TUESDAY, Aug. 12 (HealthDay News) -- The first test for instantly detecting beef that's been contaminated with tissue from a cow's brain or spinal cord during slaughter has been developed by U.S. researchers. Th...

Fairbank Farms Issues Voluntary Recall for Selected Ground Beef Products

ASHVILLE, N.Y., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Fairbank Farms, a national ground beef producer, is issuing a voluntary recall of selected ground beef products produced at its Ashville, N.Y., facility and sold through Price Chopper, Shaw's, BJ's, and Wilson Farms retail outlets and C&S Wholesale distri...

New Twin Hens Beef Pot Pies with Organic Cornmeal Now Provide The Brand's Famous Artisan Comfort Food for Gluten-free Connoisseurs

PRINCETON, N.J., April 7, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Twin Hens(TM) has focused its culinary expertise this time to make a Gluten-free Beef Pot Pie that will have you salivating for more. Italians have known for centuries that beef and polenta create a flavor marriage as natural as spaghetti and meat...

VeriPrime Approves New Best Practices for Beef Production

Resulting Beef is Eligible to Carry New Consumer Label WICHITA, Kan., April 1, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- Protocols for the implementation of E. coli-safeguards, that include new best practices, animal husbandry, biosecurity, and chain traceability for cattle, have been adopted and implemen...

Researchers collaborate to find new vaccine technology decreases E. coli in beef cattle

MANHATTAN, KAN. -- Despite millions of dollars spent on food safety research over the last 10 years, ground beef recalls due to E. coli O157:H7 were higher in 2007 than in 2006, according to researchers from Kansas State University and West Texas A&M University. E. coli O157:H7 has been linked to ...

Fairbank Farms Voluntarily Recalls 85% Ground Round Beef Patties Sold Fresh from Shaw's Due to Possible Health Risk

ASHVILLE, N.Y., Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Fairbank Farms, a national ground beef producer, is voluntarily recalling from Shaw's Supermarkets, 85% Lean Ground Round Beef Patties. The ground beef patties, sold fresh under the Shaw's label, could have been purchased by consumers in New England on W...

Jay C Stores Ask Customers to Check for Recalled Ground Beef

SEYMOUR, Ind., Aug. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Jay C stores are asking customers to check for ground beef they may have recently purchased with "sell by" dates of July 2 through August 16. This ground beef is part of a recall announced by Nebraska Beef. Customers should return the ground beef to store...

E. Coli Registry Expanded for Victims of E. Coli Poisoning from Cargill Ground Beef

RADNOR, Pa., Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement was issued today by the law firms Schiffrin Barroway Topaz & Kessler, LLP, and Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC: Out of public health concerns and in light of the recent recall of 845,000 pounds of ground beef products by Cargill Meat Solu...

First Nationwide Class Action Filed on Behalf of Consumers Who Purchased Topps' E. Coli Contaminated Ground Beef

RADNOR, Pa., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement was issued today by the law firms Schiffrin Barroway Topaz & Kessler, LLP, and Janet, Jenner & Suggs, LLC: On October 3, 2007, SCHIFFRIN BARROWAY TOPAZ & KESSLER, LLP and JANET, JENNER & SUGGS, LLC filed the first nationwide class ac...

E Coli Outbreak Forces Large-scale Recall of Beef Products

After pet foods and toys it is the turn of beef products to be recalled on a massive scale in the US, following fears of E coli outbreak. Four of the five reporting// symptoms of the disease have been hospitalized so far. E. coli, or Escherichia coli, is a common and ordinarily harmless bacteri...

South Korea Detects Dioxin in U.S. Beef Consignment

South Korea has detected traces of dioxin in a U.S. beef consignment to Seoul, according to reports from meatingplace.com.// The U.S. officials and the American beef industry are still unconvinced about the discovery of abnormally high levels of dioxin, at 6.26 picograms, which is higher tha...

Precautionary Recall of Beef over E.coli Contamination Concerns

Jim's Market and Locker, Inc. conducted a voluntary recall of over 5,000 lbs. of ground beef as a precautionary move in order to alert consumers //of probable beef contamination that was processed and/or handled by the firm. On Saturday morning President Jim Goeser said, "We should note tha...

Malaysia to Beef in Medical Care to Fight against HFMD

In Kuala Lumpur there is an outbreak of the hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD). Eight children have already lost their lives in Sarawak state//. Hence to calm down the situation the state government has worked out a series of preventive measures. It was said that about 187 new cases were reported...

US Preparing To Answer Japan's Queries On Beef Exports

WASHINGTON - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns said that the department officials are working on answers to the questions posed by Japan over the exports of banned cattle // parts to that country. Johanns said that the information would soon be intimated to the Japanese officials. "We hav...

Mutton And Beef Sellers Rule The Roost In Kerala

The avian flu scare has changed the fortunes of the mutton and beef sellers in Kerala, as the chicken sales have been severely hit in the past few days. They are under the process of making some quick bucks as the sales of the red meat have gone up in a dramatic fashion. // The mutton and bee...

Canada stunned as mad cow discovery leads to beef ban

The Canadian farm industry is facing a crisis that could quickly become as calamitous as the scourge that crippled agriculture in Britain in the Nineties. The United States, Japan, Russia and several other countries have put a temporary ban on Canadian beef. The industry has ground to a halt. Meanw...

Pregnant Women Expecting Sons Will Do Well to Avoid Beef

A recent insight advises caution on the part of expectant mothers in the consumption of beef during pregnancy.// Beef eating mothers may cause their sons to have unhealthy sperm counts which could jeopardize their fertility. The sperm counts have been record low among men in the western nat...

Shatters Guinness Book of Records Mark

..." of the behemoth ball, said, "This culinary caper really was all about making the impossible possible. Yes, Noah's Ark has been voted the best corned beef sandwich in the United States, but now we've created something that helps more than an appetite ... it helps draw attention to at-risk children." ...

Econiche(TM) Vaccine Efficacy Summarized in July Issue of Foodborne Pathogens and Disease

...cal company, today announced that the results of two large-scale commercial beef feedlot studies with the Company's Escherichia coli (E. coli) O157 vaccine ...ignificantly reduce the amount of E. coli O157 shed into the environment by beef and dairy cattle and, in turn, reduce the risk to human health. Most strain...

Dietary Oils May Help Some Fight Fat

...nge in energy output and calorie consumption. Safflower oil is a common cooking oil. CLA, an omega-6 fatty acid, is found in trace amounts in lamb, beef and milk, but researchers prefer to study the commercial CLA supplements, because the concentration in food is too small to have much fat-lowering abi...

Gold's Gym Debunks America's Most Common Fitness Myths

...wer intensity, but training at a high intensity will burn more calories during and after you've stopped working out. MYTH #5: If you beef up on protein, you'll gain muscle. FACT: Everybody needs protein to rebuild and repair muscles, but overloading on protein will get yo...

Good Nutrition Can Fuel the Whole Family, Even the Four-Legged Members

... but even in as little as four weeks, thanks to the following recipes: PEDIGREE +(TM) HEALTHY JOINTS RECIPE PREMIUM GROUND ENTREES with beef and rice provides natural sources of glucosamine to help maintain joint health and mobility. PEDIGREE +(TM) HEALTHY IMMUNITY RECIPE CHOICE CUTS...

Meatless Burgers, Hot Dogs Not Always Full of Veggies

...ional frankfurters, such as fewer calories, less fat, less sodium and more protein. Though veggie burgers contain far less fat and more fiber than beef or turkey burgers, they tend to contain much more sodium -- an average of 350 milligrams, or 15 percent of the recommended daily amount. Just bec...

U.S. Unveils Stricter Food-Safety Standards

...ob of making sure that we detect E. coli in ground beef in particular." Under the new rules, according ...nspection Service will increase sampling of ground beef ingredients. In a related move, the FDA anno...tle Toll House cookie dough, and 380,000 pounds of beef produced by the JBS Swift...

Fears About Pregnancy and cats Should not stop Those who want to Adopt a cat

... a dog should eat grass infected by outdoor cats. The same goes for humans. If a cow becomes infected from eating contaminated grass, and humans eat beef from that cow, then they can become infected, she said. Cats, however, are the final host because they are the only host that can shed the egg form o...

Farmed fish may pose risk for mad cow disease

...ed by eating parts of an animal infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease). An outbreak in England attributed to infected beef prompted most countries to outlaw feeding rendered cow material to other cattle because the disease is so easily spread within the same species. T...

Daisy Brand(R) Cottage Cheese Invites Americans to Freshen Up Your Fridge

... for growing kids, teens and active adults. Focus on high-quality protein. High quality protein sources such as skinless fish, poultry, lean beef and pork, cottage cheese and eggs, provide all the essential amino acids necessary for building and repairing the body's cells and boosting immunity. ...

PIBH with NFL Star Doug Flutie Recognizes 23 PA Workers with Disabilities, 21 Organizations Supporting Those with Disabilities

... sons hunting. In addition to working as a Photo ID Technician, Brown also rents and works on three farms, where he grows crops on two and raises beef cattle on the third. While he has outside help to run the farms, Brown is actively involved in the day-to-day activities. He even modified a John Deer...

New Nutrisystem Works(TM) Offers Corporate America New Weapon in the Fight Against Obesity

...customers can choose from up to 170 restaurant-style menu items, including new gourmet, fresh frozen meals such as Shrimp Alfredo, Portobello Mushroom beef Tips and even ice cream, all delivered right to the customer's door. Nutrisystem customers receive 24/7 support through free phone counseling with tra...

Maggiano's Little Italy(R) Celebrates Sixth Annual 'Eat-A-Dish for Make-A-Wish(R)' in Chicago

...esh asparagus and artichoke relish baked on crispy garlic bread. Bolognese Stuffed Shells - jumbo pasta shells stuffed with Italian seasoned beef and Asiago cheese, baked with a light tomato cream sauce. Chicken Romano with Angel Hair - tender herb and Parmesan-crusted chicken served o...

Scripps Florida scientists devise accelerated method to determine infectious prion strains

...d cow disease has had devastating consequences for bovine livestock populations, particularly in Europe, and for humans who have consumed contaminated beef products. To date, there have been more than 200 recorded human fatalities worldwide due to mad cow disease. Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease, a low-inci...

Bioniche Represented at House of Commons Sub-Committee on Food Safety

...ourth article appeared in Volume 6, Number 2, 2009 of the Journal of Food Protection (March, 2009) summarizing the results of a large-scale commercial beef feedlot study with Econiche, whereby researchers a David R. Smith, Rodney A. Moxley et al concluded that a two-dose vaccine regimen effectively reduce...

New CASA* Report Finds Federal, State and Local Governments Spend Almost Half a Trillion Dollars a Year on Substance Abuse and Addiction

..., to attempt health care reform without providing for prevention and treatment of this disease is like trying to make a Reuben sandwich without corned beef and sauerkraut," said Califano. The report, conducted with the assistance of a distinguished national advisory commission, follows CASA's landmar...

Uno Chicago Grill(R) Partners With American Celiac Disease Alliance to Raise Money During Celiac Awareness Month in May

...anging from entrees, salads, sides, beverages and desserts. Choices include grilled chicken with mango salsa, lemon basil salmon and Certified Angus beef (R) steaks. Known for its signature deep-dish pizza, Uno launched a line of gluten-free pizzas earlier this year, featuring cheese and pepperoni. ...

Walk Raises Almost $200,000 to Heighten Brain Tumor Awareness

...aware sisters Nicole Testa and Cynthia Herrick who are both currently battling brain tumors. KHG's other fundraisers include golf events, a local beef and beer night and a national tulip bulb sale dubbed "Tulips Against Tumors." "Chris' results with KHG are very impressive," says Fred Sears, P...

Obama Urged to Revive National Meatless Program

...celerating climate change worldwide, far more than transportation.(1) About 40 calories of fossil fuel energy go into every calorie of feed lot beef in the U.S.(2) Compare this to the 2.2 calories of fossil fuel energy needed to produce one calorie of plant-based protein.(3) The estimated 63...

Stanford researchers harness nanoparticles to track cancer-cell changes

...t atoms in the molecule being inspected. Raman signals are emitted all the time by various molecules, but they're ordinarily too weak to detect. To beef up their strength, the Stanford team employed specialized nanoparticles produced by Intel Corp., each with its own distinctive signature. Intel has de...