Biscuit factory worker Martin Ormiston, 48, went on his first overseas holiday to Tunisia with his partner Janet Horan to celebrate her 60th birthday but fell ill after eating food from the hotel buffet. He was diagnosed with salmonella, and after a six-week recovery, was dismissed from his job.

Bill Kessler of Mexico, Mo. writes there’s no way in a short letter to reply to all the misstatements and distortions in Karen Dillon’s Oct. 18 article “Conflicts over antibiotics in animals,” about antibiotic use in livestock. So let me focus on just the most glaring one.

Abstract:    Purpose – The present paper seeks to determine the prevalence of Salmonella spp. and Listeria (L.) monocytogenes in several cheese varieties.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Meat processors should take the opportunity to get out ahead of the emergence of non-O157:H7 Shiga-toxin producing E. coli, Jim Marsden, senior science advisor for the North American Meat Processors Association, told attendees here at the group’s annual outlook conference.

Salmonella has been implicated in food recalls from peanut butter to dog food and, most recently, eggs. While the root cause of the recalls is often unsanitary conditions, such conditions and pests go hand in hand in a chicken-or-egg-first type relationship.

Abstract Objectives: The primary objective was to evaluate differences in antimicrobial resistance among enteric bacteria recovered from feedlot cattle that were being raised without exposure to antimicrobial drugs (AMDs) and those reared using conventional practices.

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