The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seeking comments on a proposal to make changes to the reporting requirements for antimicrobial sales and distribution. The agency said in a Federal Register notice that it is considering revisions to the regulation to incorporate the requirements of section 105 of the Animal
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O104:H4 Genome Sequencing Used to Kill the Bug
The deadly pathogen known as E. coli O104:H4, which devastated northern Europe last year, can itself be killed, San Francisco-based AvidBiotics Corporation announced Wednesday.
Dean Scholl, who leads a team of scientists from AvidBiotics and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said the group has created a highly targeted bactericidal protein
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Resistant Bacteria Remains Problem for Meat
Antibiotic resistance remains common among meat-borne pathogens, according to the annual National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System report released late last week.
NARMS, which is coordinated between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and some state laboratories, is meant to serve as a “reference
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Could Orange Peels Make Meat Safer?
Researchers at the U.S. Department of Agriculture are conducting promising research looking at the role citrus byproducts could play in reducing pathogens in cattle.
And, luckily, cows seem to really like orange peels.
“Who knew? Those thick, sharp-tasting orange peels that people would never dream of eating are ‘snack heaven’