Tuesday, December 20, 2005
Cheese, chocs, maggots and more
A variety of Camembert cheese has been recalled from shop shelves because it might contain E.coli, the Food Standards Agency has announced. The productas in questions are 250g packs of Reaux's Gaslonde Camembert, 250g packs of Camembert de Normandie Th.Reaux and 1kg blocks of Reaux's Gaslonde Camembert which is normally sold at cheese counters.
A woman at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital has been apologised to after she saw the maggots wriggling near a feeding tube attached to her mother's nose.
Dark chocolate may prevent the hardening of arteries, and a few chunks every day could potentially cut the risk of serious heart disease researchers have found.
Hospitals in Lothian are close to meeting national targets for cutting breast cancer waiting times.
Long-term smokers have a sharply increased risk (between 2.5- and 3.5-fold) of losing vision from age-related macular degeneration according to John Yates of CambridgeUniversity.
A woman at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital has been apologised to after she saw the maggots wriggling near a feeding tube attached to her mother's nose.
Dark chocolate may prevent the hardening of arteries, and a few chunks every day could potentially cut the risk of serious heart disease researchers have found.
Hospitals in Lothian are close to meeting national targets for cutting breast cancer waiting times.
Long-term smokers have a sharply increased risk (between 2.5- and 3.5-fold) of losing vision from age-related macular degeneration according to John Yates of CambridgeUniversity.
