Social media sites like Twitter and Facebook are growing at a staggering rate. According to The Nielson Company, consumers spent 82 percent more time using social networking sites this year
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) responded the recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) recently released report on foodborne disease, which showed mixed results on food safety progress,
Since the bad old days of the late 1990s, federal food safety officials say the incidence of the best-known foodborne illnesses have been cut back. Shigella is down 55 percent,
As of March 2, 2010, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) counted a total of 245 individuals infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Montevideo in 44 states.
The nationwide Salmonella outbreak associated with Italian-style salami may involve two strains of the pathogen, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta has confirmed.
In the
As part of the 2010 Annual Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance, Symposium 3 brought together experts to present during a symposium titled, “Implications of Rapid Diagnostic Testing.”
Presenters for this portion
Hours before millions of Americans sat down for Christmas Eve dinner yesterday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that National Steak and Poultry, of Owassa Oklahoma, was recalling
State health departments conducted fewer complete foodborne illness investigations in 2007 than in any other year in the past decade, according to a recent study by the Center for Science
PART II: On the food safety policy outlook for 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s expansion overseas, and the Reportable Food Registry’s potential: A conversation with
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported yesterday that the number of state-level epidemiologists–who often serve as the frontline in detecting and tracking foodborne illness outbreaks–has
Twenty-five people in ten states are part of a cluster of victims of an E. coli O157:H7 strain matched to ground beef from Fairbank Farms, the Centers for Disease