The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the Food Safety and Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture—teamed up in 2011 to create the Interagency Food
Continue Reading The top 3 food safety agencies work in collaboration on foodborne illness sources
The CDC has not named the restaurant, but a food worker who was not wearing gloves has been determined to be the cause behind a norovirus outbreak that sickened more than 300 people.
In its
Continue Reading Sick restaurant employee blamed for outbreak that caused more than 300 illnesses
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has identified a strain of E. coli bacteria that it considers persistent and causing illnesses over a long period.
An article in the September issue of the publication
Continue Reading CDC isolates specific strain of E. coli that is of great concern
Avian flu is taking a holiday. It’s been three months since the H5N1 bird flu struck commercial poultry flocks in the United States.
After a long string of infections required America’s poultry business to depopulate
Continue Reading Break in Avian flu infections by commercial flocks, but the future isn’t known
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Over two months ago, while watching the premiere of the documentary, “Poisoned,” at the Tribeca Film Festival in NYC, I got thinking again about how little in the past 30 years I
Continue Reading Publisher’s Platform: Post Poisoned – What to do with my Food Safety Magic Wand?
TORONTO — Laura Gieraltowski, lead of the Foodborne Outbreak Response Team at the CDC’s Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, presented a review of multistate outbreaks of Salmonella infections
Continue Reading CDC researcher discusses multistate salmonella outbreaks linked to Indiana-grown melons
An outbreak of infections from the Cyclospora parasite that sickened hundreds in Florida in 2022 is just now being reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC report did not say
Continue Reading CDC just now releases information on 2022 outbreak from foodborne parasite in salad
An outbreak of Salmonella infections traced to backyard poultry flocks has sickened 104 people, resulting in 27 hospitalizations, according to an update from the CDC.
Those sick range in age from 2 months to 83
Continue Reading Salmonella outbreak traced to backyard poultry sickens more than 100 so far this year
The CDC is warning about a steep increase in the number of infections from antibiotic-resistant infections from Shigella, which is often foodborne.
In a health advisory from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Health
Continue Reading The uptick in antibiotic-resistant Shigella infections prompts CDC health alert
On Feb. 28, 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that the multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium infections linked to Sun Sprouts-brand alfalfa sprouts grown by SunSprout Enterprises of Fremont, NE, is
Continue Reading CDC declares Salmonella outbreak linked to sprouts over