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Food Safety

FOOD SAFETY >> 
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General Food Safety Information  
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Latest News  

Jul 17
New Item GAO looks abroad for food-safety oversight lessons

Jul 11
New Item USDA to name retailers in meat recalls

Jul 2
New Item FDA claims progress on food protection plan

Jun 10
New Item President seeks more food safety funding for FDA

May 22
New Item Experts propose steps to ease food safety info flow

May 6
New Item Pew report urges limiting antimicrobial use in animals

Apr 30
New Item Health group urges overhaul of US food safety system

Apr 1
New Item FDA seeks comments on food safety plan

Mar 13
New Item Report cites weaknesses in FDA spinach inspection

Mar 12
New Item Researchers confirm virulence differences in E coli O157:H7 strains

Feb 29
New Item USDA vows to enforce humane practices at meat plants

Feb 26
New Item Report suggests wastewater link to Taco John's E coli outbreak

Feb 7
New Item E coli cattle vaccine nearing US approval

Feb 4
New Item HHS budget proposal cuts state preparedness, boosts food safety

Dec 21
New Item Drug-resistant Salmonella outbreak linked to ground beef

Dec 11
New Item US, China report pact to make food imports safer

Dec 5
New Item Report says stingy funding has put FDA in crisis

Nov 21
New Item USDA modifies E coli testing rules for Canadian beef

Nov 16
New Item ConAgra resumes pot pie production after heeding USDA concerns

Nov 8
New Item USDA vows to double inspections of Canadian meat

Nov 7
New Item FDA food safety plan taps others for inspection help

Nov 6
New Item US food safety plan calls for FDA recall power

Oct 1
New Item Ground beef recall expands as more E coli illnesses probed

      
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New Item Hand washing frequencies and procedures used in retail food services
From Aug J Food Prot

 
New Item Discovery and development of educational strategies to encourage safe food handling behaviors in cancer patients
From Aug J Food Prot

 
New Item Survival and growth of acid-adapted and unadapted Salmonella in and on raw tomatoes as affected by variety, stage of ripeness, and storage temperature
From Aug J Food Prot

 
New Item Food safety: selected countries' systems can offer insights into ensuring import safety and responding to foodborne illness
GAO report released Jul 14 (but dated Jun 2008)

 
New Item Large ongoing outbreak of infection with Salmonella Typhimurium U292 in Denmark, February-July 2008
From Jul 10 Eurosurveillance

 
New Item Prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in herbal products
From Jul J Food Prot

 
New Item Adhesion to and viability of Listeria monocytogenes on food contact surfaces
From Jul J Food Prot

 
New Item FDA Food Protection Plan six-month progress summary
Report released Jul 2

 
New Item Immunomagnetic separation combined with real-time reverse transcriptase PCR assays for detection of norovirus in contaminated food
From Jul Appl Environ Microbiol

 
New Item Outbreak studies of a GII-3 and a GII-4 norovirus revealed an association between HBGA phenotypes and viral infection
From Jul J Med Virol

 
New Item Influence of host IL-10 polymorphisms on the development of travelers' diarrhea due to heat labile producing enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in US travelers to Mexico
From Clin Vaccine Immunol, published online Jun 25

 
New Item A large E coli O157 outbreak in Sweden associated with locally produced lettuce
From Jun Foodborne Pathog Dis

 
New Item Practice-specific risk perceptions and self-reported food safety practices
From Jun Risk Analysis

 
New Item A stochastic assessment of the public health risks of the use of macrolide antibiotics in food animals
From Jun Risk Analysis

 
New Item Use of a patch containing heat-labile toxin from Escherichia coli against travellers' diarrhoea: a phase II, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled field trial
From Jun 14 Lancet

 
New Item Salmonella infections associated with reptiles: the current situation in Europe
From Jun 12 Eurosurveillance

 
New Item Efficacy of pulsed UV-light on the decontamination of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella spp on raspberries and strawberries
From Jun-Jul J Food Sci

 
New Item Irradiation compared with chlorination for elimination of Escherichia coli O157:H7 internalized in lettuce leaves: influence of lettuce variety
From Jun-Jul J Food Sci

 
New Item Occurrence of norovirus infections unrelated to norovirus outbreaks in an asymptomatic food handler population
From Jun J Clin Microbiol

 
New Item Key role of Mfd in the development of fluoroquinolone resistance in Campylobacter jejuni
From PLoS Pathog, published online Jun 6

 
 

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