Canadian Food Inspection Agency expands beef recall

The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has expanded its recall of beef products potentially contaminated with E. coli for the third time since the recall was first announced Sunday.

The expanded recall includes ground beef, burgers, meat loaf, sausages, pepperoni and beef jerky sold at Co-op stores in Alberta, B.C., Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Yukon; Sobeys/IGA stores in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan; and Presto and Club Entrepot stores in Quebec.

The affected products were sold from Aug. 24 to Sept. 16 and include unlabelled and unbranded ground beef products.

A list of the products added to the recall is available at CFIA's website.

Manufacturer XL Foods Inc., based in Edmonton, as well as various retailers, distributors and processors are voluntarily recalling the affected products from stores, the CFIA said.

No illnesses associated with the consumption of the affected ground beef have been reported, CFIA said.

Food contaminated with E. coli may not look or smell spoiled. Eating food contaminated with the bacteria may cause serious and potentially life-threatening illnesses, CFIA warns.

20 Sep, 2012

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Heat waves, cold snaps may increase risk of premature death

Extreme temperatures during heat waves and cold spells may increase the risk of dying prematurely of heart disease, according to new Australian research published in an American Heart Association journal.

"The findings are important because of how the body responds to temperate extremes, the growing obesity trend and the Earth's climate changes," said the study's lead author, Cunrui Huang of Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane.

Researchers compared data on daily temperatures between 1996 and 2004 with documented cardiovascular-related deaths for the same period.

For the purposes of the study, 11.7 C was considered a cold spell, while 29.2 C was characterized as a heat wave. For every one million people there were 72 so-called years of life lost - measured against life expectancy - due to cardiovascular disease, the study found.

The risk of premature CVD death was even higher when extreme heat was sustained for two or more days, the researchers found.

This might be due to greater strain on the heart, co-author Prof. Adrian G. Barnett said, citing previous research that has shown exposure to extreme temperatures can trigger changes in blood pressure, blood thickness, cholesterol and heart rate.

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