Trans Fat :: Trans-fat ban in restaurants
New York City has adopted the nation’s first ban on the use of trans-fat oils in the city’s restaurants, while Chicago is considering a similar law.
New York City has adopted the nation’s first ban on the use of trans-fat oils in the city’s restaurants, while Chicago is considering a similar law.
More than 250 people have reported becoming sick after eating at an Olive Garden restaurant in Indianapolis, Indiana, a county health official said on friday, a day after an outbreak of E.coli at Taco Bell restaurants was declared over.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today narrowed its investigation of an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to Taco Bell restaurants in Northeastern states by focusing its efforts on finding the sources of shredded lettuce served at the stores. This new focus is based on the fact that three items — shredded lettuce, cheddar cheese and cooked ground beef — were implicated in a study conducted by the U.S. Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as the items most likely to have been the vehicles of pathogen (disease-causing agent) transmission in this outbreak. Based on a number of other factors, as well as food processing techniques used for cheese (pasteurization) and ground beef (cooking), lettuce is considered overall to be the single most likely source of the outbreak at this time.
The Food and Drug Administration is continuing its investigation of an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections linked to eating food from Taco Bell restaurants in 5 states. FDA is collaborating with state and local health officials, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the firm to identify the cause of the outbreak.
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The Food and Drug Administration continues to investigate an ongoing outbreak of E. coli O157 infection in consumers, associated with eating food from Taco Bell restaurants in six states.
62 cases associated with this outbreak have been reported to CDC from 6 states: New Jersey (28), New York (21), Pennsylvania (9), Delaware (2), South Carolina (1), and Utah (1). Other cases of E. coli O157 infection are under investigation by state public health officials. The vast majority of patients reported eating at a particular fast food restaurant chain, Taco Bell. No specific food has been implicated yet.
New York City restaurants will have to use trans-fat-free cooking oil under regulations adopted unanimously yesterday by the city’s Board of Health. The board did give the restaurant industry time to find alternative oils that do not significantly alter the taste of foods.
At least 22 people in Trenton, N.J. and another 14 in Long Island have contracted the E. coli bacteria, all but six after consuming food from Taco Bell restaurants, according to U.S. health investigators.
Taco Bell had temporarily closed one of its fast-food restaurant in Middlesex County, N.J., and four in Suffolk County, N.Y. as a precautionary measure against E.coli., and is working with New Jersey health authorities seeking the cause of an outbreak of E. Coli which has sickened nearly a dozen people, six of whom remain in hospital.