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You Should Know
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Latest Food Safety Advice for Travelers
Not only is diarrheal illness a too-common side effect of travel, now there’s the threat of something more serious—meningitis. That’s what happened to 12 Americans who visited Jamaica together, nine of whom ended up in the hospital with meningitis. The culprit? Angiostrongylus cantonensis, a roundworm more typical of Southeast Asia and the Pacific Basin, but also found in rats and land snails in the Caribbean islands. Investigators tracked the probable source of infection to Romaine lettuce in a Caesar salad
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Side Benefit for Alcohol Imbibers
Drinking wine, beer or other alcoholic beverages may help prevent foodborne illness, according to an investigation in Spain that looked at who got sick and who didn’t in a group of 51 people exposed to contaminated food at a banquet. Partyers who drank more than 40 grams of alcohol (about three beers, three glasses of wine or three cocktails) during or immediately after eating were only half as likely to suffer food poisoning from Salmonella-tainted food as teetotalers. Imbibers drinking
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