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Restaurant Outbreak Went Unreported in San Francisco

By James Andrews on January 10, 2012

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 in epidemiology for the group to trace their illnesses back to Delfina, the Italian restaurant…

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AFDO to Help Coordinate Food Safety System

By Gretchen Goetz on October 7, 2011

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 AFDO would receive additional funding under the Alliance for Advancing a National Integrated Food Safety…
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Microbe Hunters: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

By Ross Anderson on October 3, 2011

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 that the randomness extends to the public response.  Some outbreaks of disease are quickly traced…

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