On this day in 1986, Canadian author Robert Munsch released his book Love You Forever. One of the most successful children's books ever written, it is beloved by generations of Canadians and others worldwide. Let's learn more about it (and try not to cry)! 🧵1/10

Keith Warriner #DirtyDining Food operators falsifying Food Hygiene Rating giving their food business a '5-Star' post to coverup a ZERO rating is a serious offence. Thanks to BBC News (UK) for exposing this scam. bbc.com/news/articles/…

A recent BBC investigation revealed inaccuracies in food hygiene ratings. The solution? Mandate the display of food hygiene ratings in England. We've long called for a statutory food hygiene rating scheme to improve standards and compliance. Read more: bit.ly/3YclOwL

Ben thought we’d be eaten by bears. Now he’s a professor in North Carolina where eating undercooked bear meat makes them barf. In the fall of 2005, Ben was one of my students, I got invited to give a talk somewhere in Prince George, British Columbia. dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.…

Ben thought we’d be eaten by bears. Now he’s a professor in North Carolina where eating undercooked bear meat makes them barf. In the fall of 2005, Ben was one of my students, I got invited to give a talk somewhere in Prince George, British Columbia. dx.doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.…

as a father of five daughters, this is sorta important

Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday, a celebration of the harvest, and my family hosted meals for decades. This is a video from 2008 while I was in Kansas and covers the basics. Enjoy the feast, my Canadian family and friends youtube.com/watch?v=WcNwPw…

thanks, richie

Raw is risky: 268 people barf: Vibrio parahaemolyticus foodborne illness associated with oysters, Australia, 2021–2022 11/30/24 Emerging Infectious Disease wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30… Whomever decided oysters – slimy, globulous blobs – were a food must have been really hungry

1 dead, 49 sick from silvered onions or beef patties in 10 States in McDonald’s Quarter Pounders 10/22/24 fda.gov/food/outbreaks… Slivered onions served on Quarter Pounders are a likely source of contamination.

No shit AP Sports 11/1/24 NHL union will form committee to help players better understand traumatic brain injuries The NHLPA will form an advisory committee to help hockey players better understand chronic traumatic encephalopathy and the damage that concussions can do..

Chicken meal the likely cause of NZ Canterbury University’s mass student sickness 11/5 24 Share Eva Gallot and Poppy Clark stuff.co.nz/nz-news/360475… The likely cause of the mass sickness impacting students at Canterbury University was shredded chicken.

Sounds gross: Acai cream with granola recalled for Salmonella 11/7/24 tropicalbrazil.com.au Acai with Guarana - Acai Cream 20g Granola 70g/200ml Acai Guarana 1.7kg/2L, 3.6kg, 595g/700ml For further information please contact: Tropical Brazil Pty Ltd 02 8407 9135

1 dead, 38 sick from E. coli O121:H9 in organic carrots 11/17/24 US FDA fda.gov/food/outbreaks… Carrots are grown in the ground. So are onions and potatoes. So they can be contaminated with water run-off containing ruminant feces and those nasty E. coli, especially cattle shit.

68 sick: outbreak of Salmonella in cucumbers 11/29/24 FDA fda.gov/food/outbreaks… Do not eat, sell, or serve cucumbers grown by Agrotato, S.A. de C.V. in Sonora, Mexico; including recalled cucumbers from SunFed Produce, LLC.

10,600 sick from splash pads When I was a kid, my parents used to take me to Ontario Park in Toronto (which is now being demolished for condos), and I would run for hours in the splash pad. It was idyllic. And a microbiological haven. CDC has a report

14 sick: Salmonella sp. tied to multistate outbreak in peanut butter isolated from wastewater, United States, 2022 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30… We isolated Salmonella enterica serovar Senftenberg in raw wastewater from 2 Pennsylvania wastewater treatment facilities during June 2022.

read the abstract

Norovirus rates have skyrocketed by 340% this season. Here’s where the ‘winter vomiting disease’ is spreading and why fortune.com/well/article/n…

the news just repeats itself: Salmonella and cantaloupe; doi.org/10.1016/j.jfp.… rights and content