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Yet another warning today regarding food contamination. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health have issued an advisory warning after state laboratories detected Salmonella in a jar of King Nut brand creamy peanut butter. This particular peanut butter is distributed throughout the state to long-term care facilities, hospitals, schools, restaurants, delis, universities, cafeterias and bakeries. If you, or anyone you know, lives in the state of Minnesota be aware that investigations are ongoing and it is probably a good idea to avoid foods containing peanut butter if you don’t know what the source of the peanut butter is. Salmonella infections can commonly cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps, fever, and diarrhea, which can be bloody. Read more about salmonella here.

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Milk allergy is the most common food allergy in children. And according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention food allergies in children have risen 18 percent in the last decade, with 3 million children in the United States having at least one food allergy. Having an allergy to milk can be difficult for children since milk products are extremely prevalent in the U.S. But scientists at Johns Hopkins and Duke universities are working on a solution. Their recent research suggest that daily exposure to milk powder can enhance the body’s tolerance to milk proteins. This technique, called oral immunotherapy, “gradually retrains the immune system to completely disregard or to better tolerate the allergens in milk that previously caused allergic reactions,” study senior investigator Dr. Robert Wood, director of Allergy and Immunology at Hopkins Children’s, said in a hospital news release. “Albeit preliminary and requiring further study, these results suggest that oral immunotherapy may be the closest thing yet to a true treatment for food allergy.”

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