Six months after President Obama signed the landmark FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) into law, the Food and Drug Administration continues to move forward in its efforts to protect the nation’s food supply.

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Social media can help a food scare grow, but it also lets scientists work together more easily, writes JOANNE HUNT ARE THE animals we eat fed too many antibiotics? Was social media as virulent as the pathogens themselves in escalating the recent E.coli outbreak?

At a time of rising concern over pathogens in produce, Congress is moving to eliminate the only national program that regularly screens U.S. fruits and vegetables for the type of E. coli that recently caused a deadly outbreak in Germany.

A leading infectious disease expert has called on Google to expand its flu trends application to other viruses because of its success tracking the spread of the illness in Australia. Infectious Diseases and Australian National University microbiology professor Peter Collignon has asked Google to include norovirus, rotavirus and respiratory syncytial virus in the application.