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240 sick; broken pipe lead to sewage being dumped in oyster bed causing norovirus outbreak, not a person pooping over his boat 5 Apr 2013 | 12:34 pm
In another installment of this is why we cook seafood at my house, 240 people have been sickened in three Australian states after consuming oysters with norovirus. The contamination was caused by a br...
24 sick; just cook it is bad advice; FDA orders massive recall 5 Apr 2013 | 12:05 pm
The just-cook-it company has just been told to recall all of its frozen food after an E. coli O121 outbreak linked to the New York plant has sickened at least 24 people. JoNel Aleccia at NBC News repo...
Dear Dr. Provost – IV 4 Apr 2013 | 01:06 pm
Katie broke my heart. Not in the way that a few girls did, but in the way she was so talented, but just wanted to go back to be with her family in Sault Ste. Marie (that ‘s in Canada). … Continue read...
Dear Dr. Provost — III 2 Apr 2013 | 05:27 pm
I had a long chat with my daughter last night – the 22-year-old university grad who works as a waitress but has it together enough I could crash at her place for a couple of nights last month. I had …...
Some food microbiologists know their stuff 1 Apr 2013 | 02:51 pm
Kudos to Don Scaffner of Rutgers for recognizing an artist in his prime, Neil Young, 1979. Still going loudly into the night.
Dear Dr. Provost – II 1 Apr 2013 | 03:11 am
I was going to write you about sexual abuse, professetorial incompetence, and just some really weird religious shit, but I decided to call my parents instead. My father used to bleed red – Massey Ferg...
Dear Dr. Provost 31 Mar 2013 | 06:01 am
We have never met; you have never e-mailed me, yet I learned yesterday via my dean that you were terminating my contract, as a full professor who has received above average evaluations for seven years...
Bye-bye bites; fired for bad attendance 30 Mar 2013 | 12:50 am
I love my job. I love my wife and family. So when Dr. Amy Hubbell, formerly of Kansas State University, was offered a faculty appointment at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, I was ...
Blame the consumer: Frozen foods shouldn’t have E. coli on them 29 Mar 2013 | 07:41 pm
My colleagues think I’m unavailable because I’m in Australia. Maybe they’ve never been in love, know that the Internet sorta works, and have utterly failed at supervising graduate students even though...
Pizzeria in Sweden mixed sauce with cement mixer 29 Mar 2013 | 08:45 am
People send me things, and I am grateful. This one’s from Sweden, and some things may be lost in translation. A customer at a pizzeria in Skåne who found a screw in his kebab went back the day after w...
