Foodborne pathogens - Oral fluid shows excellent potential for...
Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. Oral fluid is a new safe, non-invasive, convenient, and efficient biological sample that can be used for virus...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Women with a BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic variant have...
Although genetic mutations in BRCA1 or BRCA2 are associated with a younger onset of breast and ovarian cancer, women with these genetic mutations continue to face a high risk...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - APHA part of 5 UK E. coli outbreaks in 2022
The Animal and Plant Health Agency was involved in another two E. coli outbreaks in the United Kingdom in the final quarter of 2022. In the first, APHA helped Public Health...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Bill Marler and Food Safety News awarded gold medal for...
On Feb. 23, Publisher Bill Marler and Food Safety News were honored by the New Jersey Association of Justice with its Gold Medal for Distinguished Journalism. The New Jersey...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Tainted meat linked to two deaths in Argentina
Argentinian officials have confirmed leptospirosis and Salmonella in an outbreak that has killed two people. Authorities in Buenos Aires reported that four adults were...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Kawasho Foods USA Inc. Announces a Voluntary Recall of...
Kawasho Foods USA Inc. of New York, NY, is voluntarily recalling one lot of canned GEISHA Medium Shrimp 4oz. because of reported swelling, leaking, or bursting cans. There is a...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Researchers use superheated steam to sanitize dry food...
Researchers at Cornell University are developing a new tool to eliminate deadly pathogens in commercial dry food processing plants - superheated, dry steam. Because it is...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Canned shrimp recalled over reports of swelling,...
Kawasho Foods USA Inc. of New York, NY, is recalling one lot of canned GEISHA Medium Shrimp 4oz. because of reported swelling, leaking or bursting cans. The company is...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - People sick in Finland after eating oysters
Health officials in a city in Finland are investigating several cases of illness caused by contaminated oysters. Food poisoning in Helsinki is suspected to be related to eating...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Neither consumer groups nor industry representatives...
Leaders from a group of consumer and industry organizations were unanimous yesterday in condemning FDA Commissioner Robert Califf for his plan to restructure the agency. To a...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - CDC declares Salmonella outbreak linked to sprouts over
On Feb. 28, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections linked to Sun Sprouts-brand alfalfa...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Hong Kong probes outbreak linked to school food
Officials in Hong Kong are investigating illnesses linked to a school lunch box supplier. The Food and Environmental Hygiene Department has received information about two...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Italy sees most HUS cases for decades
Italy has reported the highest annual total of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome cases since records began. From January to December 2022, 91 cases were recorded. This is the most...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - New hepatitis A outbreak discovered; other outbreak...
Federal officials have identified a new outbreak of hepatitis A infections suspected to be from a food source. The Food and Drug Administration reports that it has begun...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Failure to diagnose hypochondroplasia by prenatal...
Hypochondroplasia is a common nonlethal skeletal dysplasia caused by pathogenic variations in the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 gene, and HCH has similar clinical...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Oysters harvested in Florida linked to three-state...
The Florida Department of Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and state health departments of Georgia and Alabama are investigating a Salmonella outbreak associated...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Irish Salmonella outbreak over; source not found
Health officials have been unable to find the source of a Salmonella outbreak that affected almost 30 people in Ireland and England. The outbreak, which saw 11 people...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Catered food linked to school outbreak in Greece
A suspected Clostridium perfringens outbreak affected 30 people in Greece in 2021, according to a study. In May 2021, several gastroenteritis cases were reported among students...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - Interactive map logs the biosecurity blunders of the...
From Birmingham's smallpox outbreak in the 1970s a Soviet cover up of 'Biological Chernobyl', to extinct polio being found in a Dutch sewer in lab leaks of pathogens are not as...
View ArticleFoodborne pathogens - What do experts on the Government's SAGE panel hink the...
Bird flu, another coronavirus, superbugs or Zika? These are just some of pathogens experts that sat on the Government's SAGE panel during the Covid crisis say could spark the...
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