ATLANTA, GA — Tuesday kicked off day one of the Center for Produce Safety’s (CPS) 2023 Research Symposium. This year’s symposium is being held at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Buckhead, GA.
This is the Center for Produce Safety’s 14th Annual Research Symposium.
The two-day event features discussions and presentations
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By Robert E. Brackett
The American Frozen Food Institute (AFFI), together with the International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA); FMI – The Food Industry Association (FMI); Produce Marketing Association (PMA); and National Fisheries Institute (NFI) recently hosted a Food Safety Forum aimed at critically looking at the current regulatory policies
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In a new study, Cornell food scientists have created a national atlas for Listeria monocytogenes. They hope the new genomic and geological mapping tool will make it easier to track down Listeria in food recalls and other investigations.
The study, “Nationwide genomic atlas of soil-dwelling Listeria reveals effects of
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In a recent presentation, Martin Wiedmann of Cornell University discussed the positives and negatives of whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data sharing, saying that easy access to such data can sometimes lead companies and individuals to the wrong conclusions about the source of a foodborne outbreak.
Weidmann’s presentation was part of
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Cornell researchers have found five previously unknown and novel kinds of Listeria, according to a new study in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. The food scientists made the discovery while examining the prevalence of Listeria in agricultural soil throughout the U.S.
Researchers said that identifying these
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And now, Carnac the Magnificent will use his mystical powers to answer the riddle before hearing it: “An Aztec warrior, a couple of eggheads from Cornell and a middle schooler from Utah.”
The question in the envelope has, of course, been hermetically sealed in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and
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SEATTLE — Sometimes when something that “just can’t happen” does happen, valuable lessons are learned. That was the case when some batches of commercially produced, packaged, whole caramel apples turned out to be the cause of a listeriosis outbreak in 2014-15 that infected 35 people from 12 states, putting 34
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CHICAGO — The federal government is rolling out a powerful new, and increasingly affordable food safety weapon to about 30 states next year and to all 50 within two years. 
Robert Tauxe, director of the Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases at the Centers for
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Routine epidemiological work still has an important role to play in this modern age of whole-genome sequencing, sustainability practices in the food industry aren’t hampering safety procedures, and the jury is still out on whether reducing sodium in processed foods is a food safety risk.
Those were some general sentiments
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A common disclaimer supplied by public health officials while in the midst of a foodborne illness outbreak investigation goes something like this: “We’re doing our best to find the food source of the outbreak, but it’s important to remember that the majority of outbreaks are never traced back to a
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