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Start of petting zoo season prompts infection risk warning

By News Desk on April 13, 2022

An agency in Ireland has warned about the increased risk of Cryptosporidium because of the start of petting zoo season.

The Health Service Executive’s Department of Public Health Mid-West is advising people to improve handwashing…
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Study on Swedish farms widens E. coli knowledge

By News Desk on April 23, 2020

New knowledge about transmission and persistence of E. coli O157:H7 between and within farms has been revealed by a researcher at a Swedish university.

Lena-Mari Tamminen’s doctoral dissertation at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences…
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Research shows Campylobacter, E. coli found at many Dutch cattle farms

By Joe Whitworth on August 22, 2019

Campylobacter was found at most beef cattle farms and a quarter of them had Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, according to a Dutch study.

The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and Netherlands…
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Maine investigates case of E. coli linked to Iceland outbreak

By Joe Whitworth on July 20, 2019

A child in the United States is thought to be part of an E. coli outbreak linked to a farm in Iceland that has affected 21 people.

A spokeswoman from Maine Center for Disease Control…
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Farm linked to E. coli outbreak halts ice cream sales and animal contact

By Joe Whitworth on July 17, 2019

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.

A cluster of Shiga toxin producing…
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Publisher’s Platform: Seriously, time to ban petting zoos?

By Bill Marler on July 2, 2019
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This past weekend I woke up to the sad news of yet other injuries and a death linked to animal contact at a fair.

San Diego County health officials announced late Friday night that…
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Deadly Utah-Arizona E. coli outbreak blamed on farm animals

By Dan Flynn on July 31, 2017

Infected farm animals followed by person-to-person contamination were the likely cause of an E coli O157:H7 outbreak that killed two children and sickened ten other people in a remote community on the Utah-Arizona border.

Public…
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Letter from the Editor: An independent food safety board is far better than anything FDA Commissioner does on his own

By Dan Flynn on January 29, 2023

Publisher’s Platform: Putting the F — Food — back into the FDA

By Bill Marler on January 27, 2023
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