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  • Fighting food-borne illness in the kitchen: Will it require gloves?

    Posted: July 5th, 2012 - 10:20am

    Nobody questions the cunning of the norovirus. Every year in the U.S. the food-borne pathogen survives heat and chemicals and delivers stomach cramps and diarrhea to more than 20 million people, 70,000 of whom require hospitalization and 800 of whom die. Norovirus, which thrives in human stool, accounts for more than half of all food-borne illnesses.

    Date Published: 
    30.jun.12
    Source Title: 
    Oregon Live
    Food Safety Policy  |  Comments
  • Poultry meat inspection: EFSA reviews risks for public health

    Posted: July 5th, 2012 - 10:20am

    The European Food Safety Authority’s (EFSA) scientific opinion published today, suggests that traditional poultry meat inspection may not suffice to fully address the most relevant biological hazards to public health: Campylobacter spp., Salmonella spp. and ESBL/AmpC gene-carrying bacteria[1].

    Date Published: 
    29.jun.12
    Source Title: 
    EFSA
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  • Quality of raw chicken breast stored at 5C and packaged under different modified atmospheres

    Posted: July 5th, 2012 - 10:19am

    ABSTRACT

    Date Published: 
    02.jul.12
    Source Title: 
    Journal of Food Safety
    Raw Food  |  Comments
  • Potential international spread of multidrug-resistant invasive Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis

    Posted: July 5th, 2012 - 10:18am

    Abstract

    Date Published: 
    01.jul.12
    Source Title: 
    Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 18, Number 7—July 2012
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • Calicivirus from novel recovirus genogroup in human diarrhea, Bangladesh

    Posted: July 5th, 2012 - 10:17am

    Abstract To identify unknown human viruses in the enteric tract, we examined 105 stool specimens from patients with diarrhea in Bangladesh. A novel calicivirus was identified in a sample from 1 patient and subsequently found in samples from 5 other patients. Phylogenetic analyses classified this virus within the proposed genus Recovirus.

    Date Published: 
    01.jul.12
    Source Title: 
    Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 18, Number 7—July 2012
    Other Microorganisms  |  Comments
  • Outbreak-associated Vibrio cholerae genotypes with identical pulsotypes, Malaysia, 2009

    Posted: July 5th, 2012 - 10:17am

    Abstract A cholera outbreak in Terengganu, Malaysia, in November 2009 was caused by 2 El Tor Vibrio cholerae variants resistant to typical antimicrobial drugs. Evidence of replacement of treatable V. cholerae infection in the region with antimicrobial-resistant strains calls for increased surveillance and prevention measures.

    Date Published: 
    01.jul.12
    Source Title: 
    Emerging Infectious Diseases, Volume 18, Number 7—July 2012
    Other Microorganisms  |  Comments
  • Salmonella in the sand: blame the bandicoots

    Posted: July 2nd, 2012 - 8:56am

    Last weekend I had the chance to renew my friendship with Sam from Sydney. She’s the communications manager for the New South Wales Food Authority (the state where Sydney is located in Australia), She booked an inexpensive room form me and Chapman and his only girlfriend one ANZAC day back in 2002.

    Date Published: 
    01.jul.12
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
    Salmonella  |  Comments
  • 30 sick after Sussex cricket hospitality

    Posted: July 2nd, 2012 - 8:55am

    People go to a cricket match to sleep, not barf. An investigation has been launched after 30 people contracted food poisoning following eating food at a Sussex county cricket match.

    Date Published: 
    30.jun.12
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
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  • Sweet tea sickens when mixed with chemicals

    Posted: July 2nd, 2012 - 8:54am

    I don’t golf anymore because I sorta like my wife. But for years Chapman was called Sweat Tea. Not by me, but government types, who have this predilection to come up with nicknames for everyone, like it matters.

    Date Published: 
    30.jun.12
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
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  • Washington state says, please cook your oysters

    Posted: July 2nd, 2012 - 8:53am

    I don’t know any food microbiologists who eat raw oysters; they may exist, but maybe I only know the drunks and they know better than to play with Vibrio and its liver-specific toxins. And every time we post something about raw oysters, producers and government-types say we have no idea what we’re talking about – and provide no data.

    Date Published: 
    30.jun.12
    Source Title: 
    barfblog
    Raw Food  |  Comments