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French public health agency, Santé Publique France, reported one death and eight people in hospital following an outbreak of botulism – a rare food-borne illness. It said they all visited the Tchin Tchin wine bar in Bordeaux in the same week. At this stage, it said sardines were the suspected source of illness. Botulism attacks the body’s nerves and can paralyse muscles. The illness is typically brought on by eating food that has not been properly canned, preserved or cooked, according to the UK ...

Bodegas Familiares de Rioja , an association backed by 216 growers, said it would no longer participate in the decision-making process of the Consejo Regulador and its sectorial interprofessional committee, the Organización Interprofesional del Vino de Rioja (OIPVR).  Despite the decision to leave management bodies, BFR said its producers would continue to operate the Rioja DOca appellation, in terms of producing wine labeled under the Rioja Doca. Its move highlights turbulence in one of Spain&# ...

The concept, developed by design teams from both companies, borrows ideas from the automotive world in its use of a horizontal, rather than vertical, bottle design, and in holding back some important information about the product to be released at a later date. Macallan master whisky maker Kirsteen Campbell has already finalised the liquid for Horizon, following a visit to Bentley’s headquarters in Crewe, but no details about the whisky, its price or its availability, will be released until earl ...