Foodborne pathogens - What Restaurants and CDC can do to prevent hepatitis A...
Opinion As of Nov. 9, 2021, health officials in Roanoke, Virginia, confirmed a total of 50 primary cases and two secondary cases of hepatitis A linked to a hepatitis A positive...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Global food safety topics for 2022
ANALYSIS - What will the New Year bring? We can't be sure about everything but we already know a few things in store in 2022. Coronavirus will still be around and impacting the...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Scottish report highlights COVID-19 impact on food sector
The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on many areas, including fewer samples being taken and a decline in most foodborne pathogens, according to an annual report from...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Large drop but France still records more than 1,000...
The number of outbreaks fell by more than 40 percent in France in 2020, largely because of COVID-19 measures, according to new numbers from the French public health...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Is lax security in labs putting us at risk of another...
These top-level labs, classed as Biosafety Level 4 , house the really dangerous pathogens, such as Covid-19, Ebola and the deadly Marburg viruses .
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - The crystal ball for 2022 shows several food safety...
The pandemic will no doubt net more headlines in 2022 than any other topic, but that doesn't mean discussions and news coverage about food safety will fade away. Along with...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Retailer's Campylobacter results above FSA limit
Marks and Spencer has again recorded the highest Campylobacter in chicken results in updated quarterly figures from the United Kingdom. Campylobacter is the most common cause...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Cost-share program offers help for food safety...
The South Carolina Department of Agriculture has announced the “On-Farm Improvement Cost Share Program.” Through the USDA's Specialty Crop Block Grant funding administered by...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - A novel compound might defeat multidrug-resistant...
Increasingly, hospitalized patients contract infections that evade current antibiotics including colistin, long used as a last treatment option. The discovery of a new colistin...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Hepatitis A outbreak may have killed one in...
State officials are reporting a hepatitis A outbreak among patrons of an unnamed Italian restaurant in Pennsylvania. One death is being investigated as part of the...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - New compound could combat multidrug-resistant pathogens...
For years, public-health experts have been sounding the alarm about the next phase in humanity's co-existence with bacteria-;a dark future...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - FDA continues investigations into several outbreaks of...
The patient count continues to rise in an outbreak of infections from Salmonella Javiana. Officials from the Food and Drug Administration report that the outbreak has now...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - WHO reports show food safety strategy progress
The World Health Organization has published two reports from meetings of a group working on its revised food safety strategy. WHO's food safety strategy for 2022 to 2030 will...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Study finds climate change could worsen microbial...
Climate change could have a big impact on the microbiological quality of raw milk in Europe, according to a study. While many organisms suffer from the increased temperatures...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Wendy's patrons may have been exposed to hepatitis A;...
The Arkansas Department of Health is warning of possible hepatitis A exposures after an employee of Wendy's at 721 North Arkansas, in Russellville tested positive for the...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Do Your Genes Know What's Making You Sick?
Tim Sweeney had been a surgeon for only one year, but he was already fed up with a seemingly unsolvable and dangerous problem. Many patients who underwent a major operation or...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - SARS-CoV-2 Omicron less pathogenic in hamsters
A new research paper posted as a preprint to the bioRxiv* server attempts to throw some light on this question by studying viral pathogenicity in golden hamsters, a valuable...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Researchers explore Salmonella decline during COVID-19...
Researchers have assessed the potential reasons behind a decrease in Salmonella infections in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study looked at the impact of...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Outbreak traced to organic salads continues, but CDC...
The CDC has updated information on an outbreak of E. Coli O157:H7 infections traced to certain packaged salads, removing three people from the patient list. Organic Power...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Fourth person dies in hepatitis A outbreak traced to...
A fourth person has died in a hepatitis A outbreak traced to Famous Anthony's restaurants in Roanoke Valley in Virginia. Larry Vest died on Christmas after fighting the liver...
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