Abstract

For those counting – which seems like a bizarrely gruesome fetish – the final tally for the listeria-in-cantaloupe outbreak of 2011 is 146 persons sick from 28 states, including 30 dead and one miscarriage.

The Minnesota Department of Health has identified more than 40 people who reported becoming ill after eating at the Greysolon Ballroom in Duluth, Minnesota, on Saturday and “we suspect there could be more,” said Doug Schultz of the department’s communications office.

Over time, actions are stronger than words. Maple Leaf honcho Michael McCain may have won platitudes for his risk communication performance during the 2008 listeria-in-deli-meat fiasco that killed 23 and sickened 56 in Canada (not from me), but actions are the true test of words.

Big meat producers in the U.S. and Canada are blasting a newly proposed U.S. Department of Agriculture rule that will expand the ban on selling of tainted ground beef to include six new E. coli strains.

WENATCHEE, Wash. -- Food safety and volatile markets were key threads running through the Washington State Horticultural Association’s annual meeting Dec. 5-7. Attention focused on anticipated release of proposed regulations to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act.

Recent large-scale terrorist attacks have raised interest in models for resource allocation against terrorist threats. The unifying theme in this area is the need to develop methods for the analysis of allocation decisions when risks stem from the intentional actions of intelligent adversaries.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control reports that on June 29, 2011, the Wyoming Department of Health was notified of two laboratory-confirmed cases of Campylobacter jejuni enteritis among persons working at a local sheep ranch.

Traducido por Gonzalo Erdozain Resumen del folleto informativo mas reciente: - 60 enfermos en 10 estados; 37 casos en Missouri - El brote ha sido relacionado a lechuga romana; varios individuos enfermos consumieron la lechuga en las tiendas Schnucks en la ciudad de St. Louis