Tag Archives: Denmark

Botulism in Danish baby food?

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Have you noticed a trend? Blog posts at 4 a.m., bad baby metaphors, bad writing cause my brains are mush?

Must be a baby in the house.

The Norwegian Food Safety Authority (NFSA) writes on their website that there are suspicions that Hipp’s fruit purée with banana and apricot may contain Colstridium Botulinum, following an outbreak of illness in Denmark.

They are now recommending that all parents who have bought jars marked L35655, with a use-by date of 31.12.08 should throw them away.

The Danish Food Safety Authority has sent the fruit purée for test ananlysis, and a final confirmation as to whether the food is poisonous will come at the end of the week.

A quick trip to the Hipp Organic Baby Food web site finds lots of what isn’t in Hipp baby food like melamine or Irish pork, but no mention of botulism.
 

822 ill, 6 dead in Denmark Salmonella outbreak

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A memorandum from Denmark’s national serum institute, Statens Serum Institut to the Parliamentary Health Committee, reveals that as of Sept. 15, 2008, 822 cases of Salmonella Typharium U292 had been reported in Denmark and six deaths in people who may have been suffering from other conditions.

The source of the Salmonella outbreak, which dates back to the summer, remains under investigation.
 

330 confirmed with Salmonella in Denmark; 30 new cases per day

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The Associated Press reports that Danish health officials are checking everything from refrigerators to credit card receipts to find the source of what may be the worst Salmonella outbreak in 15 years.

Kare Moelbak of the Ministry of Health said 330 cases of the relatively rare Salmonella typhimurium U292 have been confirmed and about a quarter of those people have been hospitalized.

Moelbak said he suspects the source is some sort of Danish food product distributed only in Denmark, since neighboring countries have not reported an outbreak. They believe it probably is meat, but they do not know which product.