Articles Tagged with ''foodborne illness''

CDC is investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections it has traced back to sprouted nut butter spreads.

A California company has issued a recall for its vegetable mix officials identified as the source of E. coli in Costco’s rotisserie chicken salad.

To date, the outbreaks have infected people in nine states.

Starting with the Oct. 23 2015 Supplements to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), CDC announced it will publish the summaries of all notifiable conditions – infectious and noninfectious – at the same time.

 USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture and the UK’s Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council announce a partnership to research animal disease prevention. 

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, in collaboration with FDA and CDC will host a public meeting to update stakeholders on the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration’s (IFSAC) work to improve foodborne illness source attribution.

The CDC says an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis that infected 63 people across 10 states is likely to have originated from raw bean sprouts.

In the interest of public health, researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a set of guidelines on how to use social media to communicate about food safety.

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) launched new expedited tracing procedures that will allow the agency to trace contaminated ground beef back to its source more quickly, remove it from commerce and find the root cause of the incident.

The first results of a new survey testing for the presence of Campylobacter on fresh, store-bought chickens revealed 59 percent of birds tested positive for the bacteria.