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Preharvest control of zoonotic pathogens, including Salmonella is important to public health. Processors cannot eliminate zoonoses carried in by animals, especially raw products from carcasses that have been mechanically
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has issued a rule to change post-mortem (after death) inspection requirements for swine slaughter establishments “to remove mandatory mandibular lymph node incision
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This column addresses Docket No. FSIS-2019-0023 “Changes to the Salmonella Verification Testing Program: Proposed Performance Standards for Salmonella in Raw Comminuted Pork and Intact or Non-Intact Pork Cuts and
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We need more than educationWe need pathogen controlHey Congress, we can’t do it aloneWith apologies to Pink Floyd
The theater building at Texas A&M College had
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During the past half century the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s annual reports show that salmonellosis has been the leading cause of foodborne death. Salmonellosis is caused
Food safety attorney Bill Marler’s petition to ban meat from containing any of 31 Salmonella outbreak serotypes “would be one of the most significant policy changes affecting the meat
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Julie Larson Bricher recently wrote an article on MeatingPlace.com outlining a petition that asks the USDA to declare 31 Salmonella serotypes as adulterants in meat and poultry. The
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Not all Salmonella are alike. Camplyobacter likely similar.
Preharvest economic incentives haven’t eliminated STEC but imagine what the data would be like if there were none. Leafy greens
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Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part opinion piece. To read part one, please click here.
In the previous article, I wrote about the decades-old public
Yesterday’s big beef recall is the largest in history for possible Salmonella contamination, according to an online discussion involving retired USDA microbiologist Carl Custer.
Custer responded to comments to
The most recent outbreak from Escherichia coli O157:H7 in romaine lettuce spurred me to pull up an old draft, trim it and post it in an attempt to promote
Editor’s note: This opinion column offers a differing view from that presented by guest columnist Brian Ronholm in “Eschewing obfuscation on poultry slaughter line speed.”
Poultry slaughter would flunk
