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• Professional lab work found Austin City Limits Music Festival was down and dirty

  Woodstock in 1969 on Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm near White Lake in Bethel, NY, with 400,000 in attendance for three days of Peace Music was the birth of large music festivals. It came off with two deaths, two births and hundreds of drug overdoses with about 30 requiring serious medical treatment.   Times have changed and music festivals today are not usually held on isolated dairy farms, but in big cities. One such example is the Austin Ci

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• So-called plastic rice could have been the real deal, but stored for a decade

  Reports about “plastic rice” are likely incorrect according to a food fraud expert who says it could have been actual rice that had been poorly stored for up to a decade. Chris Elliott, professor of food safety and founder of the Institute for Global Food Security at Queen’s University Belfast, said he has been investigating rice fraud for a number of years. “That all started off by lots of reports coming from different parts of the world about

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• Source as yet unknown in England’s E. coli O157 outbreak

  Public Health England is investigating an E. coli O157 outbreak with people sick across the country. One infection is in a four-year-old child from Hampshire named as Isla Aspery who needed treatment at Southampton General Hospital after a trip to the Isle of Wight. Public Health England (PHE) South East and the Isle of Wight Council’s environmental health team investigated the illness in the young child who became severely sick with a complica

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• Different President’s Choice baby formula recalled for Cronobacter

  The food recall warning of certain powdered infant formula issued on October 6, 2019, is revised to correctly identify the formula that may be contaminated with Cronobacter spp. President’s Choice brand Lower Iron milk-based powdered infant formula was incorrectly identified as having been associated with the testing results.  Accordingly, the following product is no longer subject to a food recall warning: No longer recalled product Brand Pro

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