The FDA is investigating a new outbreak of E. coli O26:H11 infections.
So far there are nine confirmed patients, but the Food and Drug Administration has not reported how
Scientists from a university in Singapore have found strains of foodborne E. coli have different tolerances towards acidic conditions.
E. coli O157:H7 is widely recognized due to the severity
Researchers in Scotland have increased knowledge of non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) in the country as part of work on severity of illness caused by these strains.
Food Standards
Only two of more than 300 samples of beef and minced meat were positive for Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in Norway, according to a survey.
The analysis of Shiga toxin-producing
Raw cow’s milk cheese distributed to at least five European countries
has been recalled
due to possible E. coli and Listeria contamination.
A warning was issued by German authorities
Ice cream production and contact with calves has been stopped while investigations continue into an E. coli outbreak in Iceland, according to one of the owners of the farm.
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At least three children have developed kidney failure after being diagnosed with E. coli infections that are linked to eating ice cream from a farm.
A cluster of infections due
E. coli has prompted two different recalls of cheese and there has been one due to Salmonella in France in the past few weeks.
Recalls have been due to E.
Danish officials have ended an investigation into an outbreak of E. coli that affected almost 40 people, but they are continuing to look at a Salmonella monophasic Typhimurium outbreak that
Danish officials are investigating an E. coli outbreak that has 26 cases with three out of four being children.
Statens Serum Institut (SSI), the agency responsible for the preparedness against
Sweden has been hit by two different outbreaks of E. coli, with one of them affecting more than 100 people. A pizza ingredient is suspected, but investigations are ongoing.
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