Foodborne pathogens - Study offers clues about the shift of harmless...
Hospital-acquired infections are often particularly difficult to treat because the pathogens have developed resistance to common antibiotics.
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Genetic info suggests multiple monkeypox outbreaks, CDC...
New genetic sequencing data indicate there are at least two separate monkeypox outbreaks underway outside of Africa, the CDC said Friday. “As the monkeypox outbreak has...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Study assesses link between inspection results and...
Researchers have tried to find out if inspection findings can be used to predict where foodborne outbreaks may happen. The study investigated whether routine inspection results...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Those trying to stop human illnesses from poultry won't...
The petitioners who believe that listing 31 Salmonella serotypes as contaminants in meat and poultry products aren't likely to take “no” as an answer. Bill Marler, attorney for...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Peanut butter related recalls keep on rolling as...
Analysis - From peanut butter cups to chicken salad, recalls caused by J.M. Smucker Co.'s peanut butter recall keep coming. Peanut butter is a product uniquely positioned to...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Finsen Tech ties up with market opportunity specialist...
Global company Finsen Tech, the world-renowned pioneers in UVC innovation to control the spread of infectious pathogens, has entered into an alliance with successful UK-based...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - National action needed to implement food safety strategy
The implementation of a new global food safety strategy will be a challenge, according to a member of the World Health Organization's Technical Advisory Group on Food...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - FDA, USDA and STOP promote new and old told tools on...
Today, June 7, is World Food Safety Day. This year's theme is “Safer Food, Better Health.” The World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Study identifies an epigenetic regulator that...
Rheumatoid arthritis is characterized by chronic inflammation of synovium, eventually leading to joint destruction. Epigenetic alteration (the mechanism of gene expression...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - France and UK most affected in Ferrero Salmonella...
France and the United Kingdom have the most patients in the Ferrero chocolate Salmonella outbreak that has sickened almost 450 people. The UK has 122 monophasic Salmonella...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Researchers hope to develop rapid pathogen testing for...
Researchers at Michigan State University are working on a rapid testing cell phone method to detect bacteria on poultry that causes human illnesses such as infections from...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Nine baby deaths reported to FDA during Abbott...
CONTRIBUTED Editor's note: This was originally posted by eFoodAlert and is reposted here with the permission of the author. Between December 1, 2021, and March 3, 2022, the US...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - FDA investigating new outbreak of E. coli O157:H7...
The Food and Drug Administration is investigating a new outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infections, but little information has been released. Ten patients have been identified in...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Two dead in Listeria outbreak in Ottawa retirement home
Two residents in a retirement home in Ottawa, Canada, have died from listeria poisoning. The deaths are part of a month-long outbreak at the resident home. Ottawa Public Health...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Experts discuss responses to food safety emergencies
There is still a need to improve communication and data sharing during global food safety emergencies, according to experts. Fadi Naser Al-Natour, Jenny Bishop and Rachelle El...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Spex CertiPrep® adds Staphylococcus aureus and...
Quickly determine the presence of S. aureus bacteria and Salmonella in agricultural samples including cannabis products with Spex CertiPrep new quantitative PCR detection kits.
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Study links SARS-CoV-2 specific T cells with...
A new study published in today's issue of PLoS Pathogens is the first to link SARS-CoV-2 specific T cells to lung function and those who suffer from long-term COVID symptoms...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - U.S. representative livid about new information in...
A member of Congress and consumer groups are expressing shock and asking hard questions about reports of additional infant deaths attributed to baby formula from Abbott...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Panel debates WHO's food safety strategy
Officials from Europe and Africa have given their thoughts on a recently adopted international food safety plan that has set targets to reduce foodborne disease. In a health...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Swiss checks show Listeria controls could be better
An assessment of Listeria controls at food companies in Switzerland has shown room for improvement, according to the Swiss Association of Cantonal Chemists . As part of a...
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