Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
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Re: Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
The BBC starts off the same:
A batch of product.
And someone actually wrote that!
But then gives us more...Some 113 people have become ill with E. coli in recent weeks and experts believe it is most likely linked to a nationally distributed food item.
So now you know.
it is likely a contaminated batch of product that people can buy around the UK.
A batch of product.
And someone actually wrote that!
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Re: Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Re: Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
It's all saying the same thing.
National E. coli outbreak is thought to be a single outbreak linked to an as-yet undiscovered batch of food.
National E. coli outbreak is thought to be a single outbreak linked to an as-yet undiscovered batch of food.
Have you considered stupidity as an explanation
Re: Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
It is called food poisoning only because the source has been assessed to be food. As the article points out, E. coli outbreaks can be arise from other kinds of sources: contamination of the water supply, contamination of bathing waters, visiting farm/zoo attractions, etc. But they would tend to produce a more localised distribution of sufferers.
Re: Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
It had better not be crisps.
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having that swing is a necessary but not sufficient condition for it meaning a thing
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Re: Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
Would be funny, sorry - unfortunate, if it was vegan
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Re: Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
I doubt it's biscuits given the number and variety I eat with impunity.
Re: Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
Re: Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
A couple of other headlines:
E. Coli: 27 cases confirmed in Wales with outbreak linked to salad leaves in some supermarket sandwiches
E coli outbreak: New UK recall issued as cases rocket
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E. Coli: 27 cases confirmed in Wales with outbreak linked to salad leaves in some supermarket sandwiches
E coli outbreak: New UK recall issued as cases rocket
:mrgreen:
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Re: Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
MrsFF works for UKHSA. There's a lot of stuff she won't mention to me, or I come home as say "such and such is in the news", to which she tells me that she's been working on it for about 2 weeks or so... but in relation to this:
It's an interesting one as a lot of labs don't fully type the particular infection (they don't have the capacity/equipment) - so it's logged as e. coli, but not what strain. It turns out that this outbreak is from one strain of e. coli that isn't usually seen. One lab in her patch that did typing reported a surprising rise in that strain, but it took time before it was noted elsewhere. Additionally, contact tracing isn't easy. There's often a delay between event and reporting of stomach bugs and it can take time for the infected person to get to a medical person who then reports it. It was easy from the contact tracing interviews to spot that it wasn't location based (so not a bathing site, restaurant etc) but after that it gets into the detail of does a person remember everything they've eaten for the last 72+ hours. It's highly stereotypical, but data bears it out, that the other thing that often crops up with food-bourn stomach bugs is a particular gender skew - mainly male, then meat/bbq food is highly likely to be the cause; mainly female and the likely cause is salad. But this outbreak appears not to have a large gender bias either way. This means it takes time to sift through potentially unreliable memories from hundreds of people across the country to try and spot potential causes and get them tested. There were a lot of people, particularly on Twitter/X, who seemed to think this should all be solved in a matter of hours, or at least a couple of days. It's much more complicated than that (and you'd be surprised by the small number of staff they have).
It's an interesting one as a lot of labs don't fully type the particular infection (they don't have the capacity/equipment) - so it's logged as e. coli, but not what strain. It turns out that this outbreak is from one strain of e. coli that isn't usually seen. One lab in her patch that did typing reported a surprising rise in that strain, but it took time before it was noted elsewhere. Additionally, contact tracing isn't easy. There's often a delay between event and reporting of stomach bugs and it can take time for the infected person to get to a medical person who then reports it. It was easy from the contact tracing interviews to spot that it wasn't location based (so not a bathing site, restaurant etc) but after that it gets into the detail of does a person remember everything they've eaten for the last 72+ hours. It's highly stereotypical, but data bears it out, that the other thing that often crops up with food-bourn stomach bugs is a particular gender skew - mainly male, then meat/bbq food is highly likely to be the cause; mainly female and the likely cause is salad. But this outbreak appears not to have a large gender bias either way. This means it takes time to sift through potentially unreliable memories from hundreds of people across the country to try and spot potential causes and get them tested. There were a lot of people, particularly on Twitter/X, who seemed to think this should all be solved in a matter of hours, or at least a couple of days. It's much more complicated than that (and you'd be surprised by the small number of staff they have).
Re: Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
Pulled Vegan Wrap? I'll stick to Pulled Pork... Vegans aren't very tasty.
You can't polish a turd...
unless its Lion or Osterich poo... http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbus ... -turd.html
unless its Lion or Osterich poo... http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbus ... -turd.html
Re: Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
In this case it may be rocket science
My avatar was a scientific result that was later found to be 'mistaken' - I rarely claim to be 100% correct
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
ETA 5/8/20: I've been advised that the result was correct, it was the initial interpretation that needed to be withdrawn
Meta? I'd say so!
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Re: Warning! Don't eat "nationally distributed food item"!
Yep, Liz Truss's legacy, for a "summer without salad".