Sprouts Sold At Local Stores May Be Contaminated

BOSTON -- Consumers were warned Friday not to eat any soy sprouts produced by Chang Farms in Whatley because of bacterial contamination.

The affected product is packaged in 12-ounce plastic bags, labeled under the Chang Farm brand as Soy Sprouts and have a "Sell By" date of April 19. Chang Farm has issued a voluntary recall of the product because of the presence of bacteria called Listeria monocytogene.

The sprouts were distributed at several retail outlets throughout the state including Stop Shop, Market Basket and Whole Foods. Grocery stores, food service, and other retailers in Massachusetts were urged to remove the product immediately, and consumers should discard this product or return it to the place of purchase.

To date, no illnesses associated with this product have been reported to DPH. L. monocytogenes is a bacteria that is widespread in the environment and is sometimes found in food. If contaminated food is eaten, it can result in either a mild illness called listerial gastroenteritis or in some populations a severe and sometimes life-threatening illness.

Symptoms can be described as flu-like, and may include fever, muscle aches, nausea or diarrhea. While most cases of listeriosis occur in adults with weakened immune status such as the elderly, pregnant women, and newborns, illness can occasionally occur in healthy individuals.

Consumers with questions about the warning can call the DPH Food Protection Program at 617-983-6712.

Although Liqiu, but still very hot weather, and throughout the hospital because of food poisoning have been frequent instances where the newspaper, so, the experts once again reminded people of the hot weather, we should pay attention to food hygiene, stress scientific diet to reduce the occurrence of food poisoning.

According to Beijing Friendship Hospital of Tropical Diseases Branch Fengmanling, the bacteria enter the body through food and people disease, medical conditions such as food poisoning.

Including eating food poisoning contain arsenic, mercury, pesticides and other organic chemicals cause of food poisoning and poisonous weeds, globefish, raw fish guts and other biological food poisoning caused by bacterial contamination of food poisoning caused by bacteria of the three. However, different bacteria can cause food poisoning, the performance is totally different from that of bacterial food poisoning can be broadly divided into two types:

A type of food poisoning called gastrointestinal, another nerve-called food poisoning. Gastrointestinal type of food poisoning due to bacteria in contaminated food multiply, a large number of toxins, including intestinal bacteria and toxins released after cracking the endotoxin was human consumption after an outbreak of food poisoning. Neural type of food poisoning due to consumption of containing botulinum toxin caused by the food.

The severity and incidence of food poisoning bacteria toxicity, food intake and the number of the resistance of the people. Although some patients vomit, diarrhoea serious, but not heavy poisoning symptoms, because a large number of bacteria and their toxins from the body quickly. And some patients seem vomit, diarrhoea not overlapping, but the toxin into the blood, causing sepsis or severe toxaemia, not only the stomach and small intestine congestion, erosion, but also can cause other organs of the toxic lesions, or even life-threatening.

High summer temperatures, more prone to gastrointestinal type of food poisoning, its performance is usually eat the same kind of food, a few people at the same time the incidence, morbidity or around, in the collective dining units

The main clinical manifestations were: abdominal pain, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting, and other gastrointestinal symptoms, and often a few hours after consumption incidence. Common bacteria: Salmonella, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, like E. coli, can produce intestinal toxins, such as Staphylococcus aureus.

Feng Zhu Lin, the main food poisoning should be treated in the hospital, therefore, should be as soon as possible if suspected food poisoning to the hospital for medical treatment. If vomit, diarrhoea serious, in order to avoid lowering blood pressure caused by dehydration and electrolyte disturbance, drink some short of sugar, salt water again Hospital.

At present, the weather temperatures are high, relative humidity is also very strong, so the temperature and humidity for the growth and reproduction of bacteria. We must strengthen food hygiene health education, people should start from the following eight areas, reduce the incidence of bacterial food poisoning.

1. In the selection of foods to choose fresh, non-perishable. Buying canned goods, dairy products and other food packaging, we should pay attention to durability, but also pay attention to whether expansion bag breakage; fresh meat to choose by the state health department quarantine before.

2. Should choose clean or contaminated food lesser extent

Food, the food should be consumed before the full cleansing and immersion.

3. In the selection of seafood, it is necessary to pay attention to selecting fresh, preferably live seafood (such as fish, prawns, crabs, etc.) consumption.

4. Been cooked food to prevent bacterial contamination, cutting health foods and cooked foods with a knife, chopping boards separately. Cold food processing must be disinfected thoroughly cleansed, it is best not to eat the salad vegetables at Dayton.

5. Fridge temporary storage of food should be finished as soon as possible, frozen food before eating to re-heating food because many bacteria in frozen, chilled conditions is not dead, it can never bring the refrigerator as food safe.

6. Some bacteria produce toxins are not afraid of heat, and, therefore, can not eat food after heating, and some profiles, the leftovers are still caused by heating the risk of food poisoning. Therefore, the best meals to eat every meal is the number of how many do. Overnight, at Dayton meals should be frozen storage, the time may not be kept at room temperature more than two hours, for the storage of cooked food thoroughly before consumption back in heating, can be consumed.

7. Persist in physical training and improve the ability of the body to fight disease.

8. Flies, cockroaches, red ants and other bacteria can be used as media, therefore, if these pests found in the home, pay attention to the eradication of them.

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