interesting article in today's NYT
bobby krishna
Tisha Alex
Tisha Mereena Alex
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Research is going on on this project ...
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Tisha,
That’s interesting thought!
Bobby Krishna T M
Food Inspector
Dubai Municipality
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From: foodsafety...@googlegroups.com [mailto:foodsafety...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Singh, Shelendra (DBI)
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008
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Subject: RE: interesting article
in today's NYT
In this case they were doubting that it may be inhaled, or entered body through the aberasions as well. As here they were using compressed air which is making the aerosol ....
Research is going on on this project ...
Shelendra Singh
Hygiene Officer
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Singh, Shelendra (DBI)
Attached here with is an article from one of the newspaper in Dubai. Its having some case studies including Abu Dhabi Food poisoning case the reason for which found out UREA.
Thanks
Shelendra Singh
Philip, Anju (RDB)
Actually I was wondering that day what was the risk behind Dosa?Bacillus?
Its scary !!
Published: December 27, 2007, 09:02
Poison on your plate
By Indira Dharchaudhuri, Staff Writer
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CASE STUDY 1
December 9, 2007, Dubai: Three-year-old Angelo Steven Mendoza died within hours after eating a fried corn snack. According to his mother, he was perfectly fine till he ate the snack. "At 3am, we took him to a hospital in Satwa, since he was vomiting. Doctors gave him an injection and we returned home. Three hours later, Angelo stopped breathing. We rushed him to Rashid Hospital, but it was too late. My baby was gone forever."
CASE STUDY 2
October 7, 2007, Sharjah: Five-year-old Misha was rushed to the emergency room an hour after she had chicken soup. She could hardly breathe, had severe chest pressure, horrific headache, a sudden bout of asthma, and epilepsy-like shudders. Doctors were about to declare her condition a case of juvenile heart attack, when Misha's mom handed them the half-emptied pack of soup. As per Dr Rahul Anand Nathwani, gastroenterologist, American Medical Centre in Dubai Healthcare City, "The soup had monosodium glutamate. In kids, it can trigger terrible chest pressures, asthma, headaches, and a feeling of heart attack." Unlike Angelo, Misha was lucky. She survived.
CASE STUDY 3
November 14, 2007, Dubai: A fish freak, 45-year-old Chris Martin landed in hospital for severe gastro-intestinal disorders. Worse, he was furious when he learnt that the prawns he devoured so hungrily were stored in formaldehyde - used to preserve dead bodies - to keep them fresh-looking.
CASE STUDY 4
August 27, 2007, Abu Dhabi: Ten-year-old Anna Francis died of what Dr Anil Kumar V.R., medical director of Abu Dhabi's Ahalia Hospital, suspects was a case of food poisoning. The culprit: home-made dosas - a South Indian delicacy made from rice. Little did anyone realise that urea (used in rice to make it whiter), along with dust, pebbles, straws and metanil yellow (used in sella rice), contaminate most rice and their by-products.
CASE STUDY 5
August 3, 2007, Dubai: Jennie Rostek was rushed to a private hospital with an advanced state of bruised liver and intestinal fissures. The cause? Green peas. It took her less than an hour to fall into convulsions with severe stomach aches and vomit blood before she was rushed to the hospital.
A peril...
Welcome folks, to a world where everything you eat is a peril. From fruits and vegetables infected with banned chemicals and toxic colours, to herbs and spices containing human excreta, to milk containing shampoos and lotions, the carcinogenic content in today's victuals is so high that you may land up risking nervous disorders, brain cysts, epilepsy, blackouts, cancers and even death.
Says Dr Anand Nathwani, gastroenterologist, Belhoul European Hospital, Dubai, "Products processed with toxic elements taste better, appear superior and find their way to markets. But diseases stemming from them have high potential to lead you to slow death."
Dr Rahul gets an average of three food contamination cases a month in Dubai, which he says, "is alarmingly high and worrying".
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Dr Paulose Thomas, nephrologist at Belhoul Speciality Hospital, Dubai, said "Adulteration kills you gradually, but incessantly. In fact, food items loaded with heavy metals like lead cause permanent kidney damage, while those with arsenic and mercury cause nerve damage, liver cancer, diabetes, hypertension etc."
Pointing to the red chilli powder contaminated with toxins; brick, sawdust and excreta-mixed cumin powder; chalk powder in sugar and turmeric; stones and crushed sand in pulses and the poisonous dhatura (stramonium) in flour, Dr Rahul said: "Most of these toxins injure intestines, causing stomach and food pipe erosions. Oils are also adulterated with argemone seeds, causing epidemic dropsy." Dr Nathwani said, "Fruits are ripened using calcium carbide. Benzoates [E210-E219], used in marinated fish, jam, salad creams, soft drinks and beer, provoke urticaria, angioedema, asthma and childhood hyperactivity."
"Chemicals like sulphites [E220-E227]," says Dr Rahul, "in dried fruits, juices, syrups, biscuits, cider, beer and wine, and butylated hydroxyanisole [BHA-E320] in soups, cheese spreads, cause pruritus, urticaria, angioedema and asthma. Nitrates and nitrites [E249-E252] in bacon, ham, cured meats, corned beef, cheese, cause headaches and may be cancerous."
Combating the menace
As per Abu Dhabi and Dubai Food Control authorities, use of chemicals is what the officials are combating "at all levels". With unscrupulous traders abounding, "a well-oiled nexus of adulteration service providers plague every part of the globe, the UAE being equally-hit," said an adulteration inspector, requesting anonymity.
Do's and dont's
* Check the labels for artificial colours, stabilisers, etc.
* Wash all fresh fruits and vegetables with cool tap water (don't use soaps or detergents)
* Scrub farm produce (melons etc), with a clean brush
* Cut away damaged areas
* Throw away the outer leaves of leafy vegetables such as lettuce
* Trim the fat and the skin from meat, poultry and fish
Contaminants in your food
* Wheat, rice, maize: Dust, pebbles stone, straw
* Sella rice: Metanil yellow
* Millet, Gram, Barley: Weed seeds, damaged grain, rodent hair and excreta, ergot (a fungus containing poisonous substance)
* Arhar (Pigeon Pulse): Kesari pulse (Grass pea), metanil yellow
* Flour, Rawa (Semolina): Sand, soil, insect webs, iron filings, arrow root powder, tapioca flour
* Gram flour: Kesari flour
* Bread: Whole wheat breads are white breads dyed in brown colour
* Tea: Foreign and used tea leaves, coloured saw dust, iron filings
* Coffee: Chicory
* Sugar: Chalk powder
* Black Pepper: Papaya seeds or light berries
* Chilli, Curry Powder: Colour, Sudan 1, aflatoxin, brick powder, rodamine
* Coriander powder: Common salt, dung powder
* Meat products: Pesticides (travel up the food chain of grass)
* Sweets: Artificial colouring, starch in khoya (dried whole milk)
* Cloves: Extracted volatile oil
* Turmeric powder: Coloured saw dust
* Asafoetida: Soapstone
* Saffron: Dried tendrils of maize cob
* Ice-cream: Washing powder, metanil yellow (a non-permitted coal tar colour)
* Milk, milk products: Paneer (Cottage cheese) starch
* GHEE (CLARIFIED BUTTER), butter: Banaspati (vegetable oil), margarine, mashed and sweet potato
* Oils: Argemone, castor and mineral oil
* Honey: Sugar solution
* Spinach, cauliflower, cabbage, tomato, radish: Lead, cadmium, zinc, copper more than the required standards
* Peas, Lady's Fingers: Green colour
* Jaggery: Washing soda and chalk powder
* Brinjal: Dipped in pesticides to give it a shiny look
The threats from the adulteration agents
* Dyes: Allergy, asthma; hits liver, kidney and bone marrow
* Tartrazine (food colour): Cancer, headache, asthma, inflammation, eye irritation and running nose; hits eyes, lungs, brain and nose
* Cabbage: Brain cysts, epileptic episodes
* Flour, confectionery and margarine: Thyroid damage
* Mustard oil: Poisoning, muscle weakening, swelling of body, Vitamin B1, B6 deficiency, epidemic dropsy
* Sweetmeat with silver coating: Hits kidney and bone marrow
* Milk: Hits stomach, kidney and liver
* Water melon: Cholera, jaundice, diarrhoea; hits kidney and liver
* Chicken and Mineral Oil: Cancer
* Lead chromate in turmeric, spices: Anorexia, paralysis, brain damage, abortion
* Soft drinks: Asthma, urticaria, rhinitis
* Methanol (in alcoholic liquids): Blurred vision, blindness, death
* Arsenic in fruits (apple sprayed with lead arsenate): Dizziness, chill, cramp, paralysis, death
* Barium (foods contaminated with rat poison or barium carbonate): Violent peristalsis, arterial hypertension, convulsion, cardiac disturbances
* Lead (in water, processed foods): Lead poisoning, kidney failure
* Sulphides (used for premature browning of breads and control of microbial growth): Exacerbates asthma; hits lungs
* Spices: Injured intestine, stomach and food pipe erosion
Anju Philip
Hygiene Manager
Raffles Dubai
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Dubai, UAE
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bobby krishna
Dubai Municiplaity health officials were not contacted for these write-ups.
Philip, Anju (RDB)
Any way thanks Bobby for clarifying it
Anju Philip
Hygiene Manager
Raffles Dubai
P O Box 121800
Sheikh Rashed Road, Wafi City
Dubai, UAE
Tel +971 4 324 8888 | Fax +971 4 327 9049 | Mob 971 50 3615301
anju....@raffles.com
Website: www.dubai.raffles.com
Raffles Hotels & Resorts was ranked second amongst the Top 10 International Hotel Chains in the prestigious Business Travel Awards 2006 by influential readers of Condé Nast Traveler.
Thank you for giving us top marks and for your excellent support, which have been invaluable to our growth and success.
To enjoy the inimitable Raffles experience, please contact your travel specialist or visit www.raffles.com
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Sent: Wed 2/13/2008 3:46 PM
To: foodsafety...@googlegroups.com
Website: www.dubai.raffles.com <http://www.dubai.raffles.com/>
Raffles Hotels & Resorts was ranked second amongst the Top 10 International Hotel Chains in the prestigious Business Travel Awards 2006 by influential readers of Condé Nast Traveler.
Thank you for giving us top marks and for your excellent support, which have been invaluable to our growth and success.
To enjoy the inimitable Raffles experience, please contact your travel specialist or visit www.raffles.com <http://www.raffles.com/>
shawal kota
Thanks & regards Shawal Hameed |
From: Tisha Alex <Tisha...@rmalhospitality.ae> |