Canadian Death Toll From Contaminated Meat Goes Up

�On Monday, the Canadian health government revised from 4 to 12 the number of deaths from listeriosis that have been linked to contaminated
cold meat cuts and the number of officially confirmed cases is now 26 and is expected to rise over again, a health official told the press.


Maple Leaf foods, one of Canada's largest food processors, expanded its product call in over the weekend to include another 220 products, in
improver to the two types of frigid meat cuts already being pulled from the shelves.


Eating food polluted with Listeria monocytogenes, usually referred to as Listeria, can case Listeriosis, a foodborne malady. The
people most at risk of falling ill include the elderly, the very young, pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems such as anyone with
HIV or undergoing chemotherapy. Although Listeria is everyplace in the environment, food manufacturers receive to follow strict procedures to make
sure it does non get into processed foods.


The Canadian health authorities are now enumeration all deaths where the deceased was infected with the same strain of Listeria monocytogenes
as that found in some cold meat cuts made by the company, regardless of their official cause of death. The new dying toll is thus chiefly due to
reattribution of previously multitudinous deaths, as Dr Mark Raizenne, the Public Health Agency of Canada's film director general of food-borne diseases
told the press, reported the New York Times. Raizenne aforementioned there are another 29 suspected cases to review and the count will probably rise
again.


The situation presents a growing crisis for Maple Leaf foods and the family that controls it, said the Times. The company operates 24 factories in
Canada.


In a video recording posted on YouTube over the weekend, president and chief executive of Maple Leaf, Michael McCain, verbalised deep understanding for the
illness and loss of life that has been linked to the company's products:


"Words cannot begin to state our sorrow for your pain," said McCain.


A entreat release posted on the company internet site at the same time said that as a precautionary measuring rod, it was voluntarily expanding its recall of
products made at the Toronto factory, ecesis number 97B, based at Bartor Road.


Maple Leaf reported that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) and Public Health Agency of Canada probe concluded that:


"The strain of Listeria bacterium, which is linked to the illness and death of several consumers, matches the Listeria strain identified in some Maple Leaf
food products in two cases."


McCain said:


"If there is any query in the consumers' mind about any product from that engraft, then the onus is on us, and the CFIA, to act decisively and fleetly to reestablish consumer confidence."


"From our viewpoint this is the right thing to do. Our actions ar guided by putting public health first base," added McCain.


The company aforementioned that so far it has been told that only iI production lines (numbers 8 and 9) have well-tried positive for Listeria, and there is no
grounds of contamination beyond these lines. But they distinct as a precaution to recall century per centime of the product made at this factory.


A full list of the products in the recall can buoy be viewed at the company's website at www.mapleleaf.com.


According to the New York Times many food companies are mazed about which Maple Leaf products are safe and have stopped up using whatever
products from them all in all. Others have got said they are non planning to drop Maple Leaf as a provider. Several call in radio shows on Ontario stations interviewed
people world Health Organization said they were throwing out all the kernel in their refrigerators and freezers and many were not purchasing replacements, "at least not ones
armorial bearing Maple Leaf's brand" said the Times report.


Plants and vegetables behind become polluted with Listeria from the soil, water supply and fertilizers that role manure as a bag. Even manifestly healthy farm
animals can carry the bacterium and contaminate creature foods such as meat and dairy farm produce.


Listeria is different to other food-borne pathogens because it can survive in the refrigerator. Also, foods contaminated with Listeria can buoy look, smell
and tasting normal, although it tooshie be killed by following correct solid food hygiene and cooking procedures.


Symptoms of listeriosis, which commonly occur 24 hours after consumption of heavily contaminated food, include vomiting, nausea, cramps, looseness,
severe cephalalgia, constipation and persistent fever. In some cases, the symptoms tin can be followed up to 70 days later by meningitis phrenitis (an
infection of the brain or its circumferent tissues) and/or septicemia (blood poisoning), either of which can be fatal.


The malady can be treated efficaciously with antiobiotics.

Click here to learn more about
Listeria and Listeriosis (Health Canada).

Sources: New York Times, Maple Leaf foods, Health Canada.


Written by: Catharine Paddock, PhD


Copyright: Medical News Today

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Triumph bassist Mike Levine recently went to the racetrack after a long absence from betting on the thoroughbreds and after a few races, he was back in form.

Levine hopes it will be a harbinger of what is ahead for the famed power trio, which is reuniting after almost 20 years for two dates, the first of which is Saturday at the Sweden Rock Festival in the southern city of Solvesborg.

Triumph, which also includes drummer/singer Gil Moore and lead singer/guitarist Rik Emmett, will also headline the second night of Rocklahoma, a four-day festival July 10-13 in Pryor, Okla.

Depending on how the gigs go, the Canadian legends may record a new CD next year and promote it with a major tour. Due to the onerous production costs of playing a show at a major arena, Triumph decided to focus its reunion on festivals in which all the bells and whistles and production costs would be paid for.

With hits that included "Hold On," "Lay It On The Line," "Rock & Roll Machine" and "Magic Power," Triumph sold more than 10 million albums during its 13-year run, beginning in the mid-1970s.

Discord among band members and record label problems ultimately led to the breakup. Now that they're reuniting, the band has had to get back into the old groove.

"A lot of rust, for Gil especially because drumming is a very physical thing and he's got to sing, too," Levine noted in a recent interview.

"It's not easy for him. It was pretty easy for me, to be honest with you. I had to work and I'm still not there yet, but I will be when the bell rings if I come out of the gate firing on all cylinders."

"Even Rik's a little rusty with some of the material because he's been playing all the time, but he hasn't played a lot of the songs that we're playing in the shows. It's a learning experience."

Levine, the jokester of the Toronto power trio, noted that following the reunions of Van Halen and the Police, Triumph had to come together to complete the triactor.

"We're the last band standing, really, of the big headliners of the '80s," he said.

The impetus to reunite came from Neil Dixon, president of Canadian Music Week, who had long wanted to put Triumph into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame, but only on the condition the trio all make an appearance.

Levine said he and Moore agreed, but Emmett was hesitant. Dixon persisted and the threesome finally agreed to a meeting - at a doughnut shop.

"It was pretty strange for all of us," Levine recalled. "Gil and I have remained friends all the way through. Rik and I hadn't seen each other in so long. It was kind of weird. Neil was supposed to be there, but he never showed up - on purpose."

"So we sit down and look at each other and went, 'So, what's new?' We chatted and it was pretty awkward at first. We started a little communication and it kept going and we decided we're going to do Neil's hall of fame thing."

A couple days before the event last year, the trio joined up for media interviews and Levine said Emmett gave him a huge hug.

"I hadn't seen him really since the coffee shop," Levine said. "We laughed a lot doing interviews and everything went well."

After the award show, the trio convened on various occasions and chatted about possibility going on the road.

Emmett left the group in 1988 to move on with his own jazz and classical material.

Moore and Levine forged forward with a new member and recorded an album in 1992, but it didn't work in the long run and that led to the dissolution of Triumph the following year.

Moore delved into his own sound and music production studio in Mississauga called MetalWorks. Levine became involved in some private business projects and took to living part of the year in Jamaica.

"There wasn't space for Triumph and we were having issues with the record label in Los Angeles and none of us were really happy with what we were doing, so at some point somebody would have left," Levine said.

"Gil would have said, 'I want to hang up my spikes' or I would have said it. Rik just happened to say it first. It just didn't go down the way things should have gone down.

"We all regret what happened. It's kind of like we pushed all that water under the bridge and we don't even talk about it, which is great. We all agreed what's happened has happened, forget about it."

The rockers decided that under the right circumstances, they would tour. Their former agent scoped out a major string of gigs for this year, but a lack of time prevented Triumph from putting anything serious together.

"There were huge offers and a lot of dough on the table, but we said, 'No, we don't want to do that. We don't have time. Let's play a couple of festivals and see how we do before we make a really big commitment,"' Levine said.

The group wanted to do one festival in the U.S. and one in Europe. The Sweden Rock Festival fit the bill and will include the likes of Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Blue Oyster Cult and White Snake.

Earlier this year at the Junos, Triumph was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, and it proved to be a special moment. Emmett spoke passionately about his brother, who was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2006 and died a year later.

Moore wore a stylish jacket and thanked his family, who were in attendance, and rocker Tom Cochrane, his longtime friend.

Levine looked the same as he did 20 years ago with his long hair and moustache. Known for wearing hockey sweaters on stage, Levine got a huge response by appearing onstage with a jacket and then removing it to show he was wearing a Calgary Flames hockey jersey and the number 12 of captain Jarome Iginla.

Levine said the trio, which is slated to play for 75 minutes this weekend, including encores for the first gig, will play 11 to 12 songs that are considered fan favourites.

"I think the arrangements are a little truer to the recordings for this little run," he said.

"We'll see how they work. Until you play in front of an audience, you don't even know how that arrangement's going to work out. It's about the music and that's what we're focusing in on, too. We're going out pretty naked. We used to go out with a huge production. With these shows it won't be the traditional big kaboom Triumph show. But it will be great. The music's got to carry the ball at the end of the day anyway."

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Perry Lefko is a freelance writer based in Mississauga, Ont.

News from �The Canadian Press, 2008

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