A correction in the making, about corrections (the other kind)
From the Corrections page of the LA Times website:SACRAMENTO — State corrections officials on Friday blamed bacteria in milk for an outbreak of gastroenteritis that struck 1,300 inmates at 11 state prisons last month.
Acting Corrections Secretary James Tilton said investigators from the state Department of Health Services had linked the illness to a batch of milk produced by a dairy at one of the prisons, Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy.
[...umm, wait... isn't this supposed to be the section where mistakes in the paper are corrected?...]
State epidemiologists made the connection after learning that among the inmates who experienced vomiting, diarrhea, headaches and other symptoms, milk appeared to be the common item consumed.
As a precaution, Tilton said the milk produced between May 8 and May 18 — about 25,000 half-pint cartons — was recalled and thrown out. Stephen Beam, chief of milk and dairy food safety for the California Department of Food and Agriculture, said officials inspected the prison's milk processing plant and found that all operations met or exceeded state standards.
[...really, is there a mistake here somewhere you're trying to point out?...]
Beam said elevated bacterial counts in samples from the recalled batch probably were caused after production, maybe during packaging.
"We've yet to identify any one aspect that is the culprit," Beam said. He said the outbreak does not suggest there is any ongoing concern with milk production or pasteurization at the prison.
[...to the Editor: this belongs in the state news section...]
The dairy at the Tracy prison, east of San Francisco, produces about 6,000 gallons of raw milk per day, providing jobs for inmates while supplying milk to state and county facilities.
Gastroenteritis hit first at Deuel, on May 16. Test results and cultures from stool samples confirmed Campylobacter, a bacterial organism, as the cause. The disease then spread to prisons elsewhere in the San Joaquin Valley and also in Folsom, the Sierra foothills and Norco in Riverside County. Some inmates were hospitalized, but most were treated in their cells.
Whew! I thought they'd never shut up. This is the danger of using word search to identify corrections, without reading what the search results say.
Acting Corrections Secretary James Tilton said investigators from the state Department of Health Services had linked the illness to a batch of milk produced by a dairy at one of the prisons, Deuel Vocational Institution in Tracy.
[...umm, wait... isn't this supposed to be the section where mistakes in the paper are corrected?...]
State epidemiologists made the connection after learning that among the inmates who experienced vomiting, diarrhea, headaches and other symptoms, milk appeared to be the common item consumed.
As a precaution, Tilton said the milk produced between May 8 and May 18 — about 25,000 half-pint cartons — was recalled and thrown out. Stephen Beam, chief of milk and dairy food safety for the California Department of Food and Agriculture, said officials inspected the prison's milk processing plant and found that all operations met or exceeded state standards.
[...really, is there a mistake here somewhere you're trying to point out?...]
Beam said elevated bacterial counts in samples from the recalled batch probably were caused after production, maybe during packaging.
"We've yet to identify any one aspect that is the culprit," Beam said. He said the outbreak does not suggest there is any ongoing concern with milk production or pasteurization at the prison.
[...to the Editor: this belongs in the state news section...]
The dairy at the Tracy prison, east of San Francisco, produces about 6,000 gallons of raw milk per day, providing jobs for inmates while supplying milk to state and county facilities.
Gastroenteritis hit first at Deuel, on May 16. Test results and cultures from stool samples confirmed Campylobacter, a bacterial organism, as the cause. The disease then spread to prisons elsewhere in the San Joaquin Valley and also in Folsom, the Sierra foothills and Norco in Riverside County. Some inmates were hospitalized, but most were treated in their cells.
Whew! I thought they'd never shut up. This is the danger of using word search to identify corrections, without reading what the search results say.
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posted by Unknown @ 6/03/2006 09:57:00 AM
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