In mid-December, 20 employees of a capital investment firm in San Francisco all began experiencing stomach cramps and vomiting within a day or two of attending a private company party. It didn’t take any degrees
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AFDO to Help Coordinate Food Safety System
By Gretchen Goetz on
The Association of Food and Drug Officials (AFDO) has received a government award that will allow it to help integrate the national food safety system.
On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) anounced that…
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Microbe Hunters: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
By Ross Anderson on
Like all disease, foodborne illness seems to strike at random. When people are exposed to foodborne microbes, some of them get sick while many others will suffer few or no ill effects.
Now it appears