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Data shows experimental botulism antitoxin highly effective in adults

By News Desk on June 21, 2019

A study shows promise for future victims of botulism poisoning, which is a particularly dangerous foodborne illness that can quickly paralyze respiratory muscles causing suffocation.

The botulism antitoxin heptavalent (BAT) therapy described in a new…
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When is a potato washer not a potato washer? When it’s washing cantaloupes

By Guest Contributor on December 9, 2018
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Food companies have been at the forefront of technological innovation and scientific research and development for decades upon decades. Cursory attention to the items we eat — how those items are grown, sourced, processed,…
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Scientists seek to build global confidence in analytical solutions for food safety

By Guest Contributor on September 26, 2018
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Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles and opinion columns we are publishing in recognition of Food Safety Education Month.

Since its founding as the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists…
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PHE: WGS is reducing foodborne illnesses; increasing outbreak detection

By Joe Whitworth on August 15, 2018

The application of genomics is reducing the number of people who become ill from foodborne infections, according to Public Health England.

PHE made the comments in a paper on the transition to use of whole…
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Researchers warn against raw milk, cheese after testing dairies

By News Desk on June 21, 2018

Research recently published by scientists in The Netherlands shows that E. coli and Campylobacter bacteria are so common on goat and sheep dairy farms that pasteurization is necessary to prevent contamination of raw milk and…
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National School Lunch Program aces ground beef safety review 

By News Desk on January 24, 2018

There’s good news for millions of children who participate in the program daily: The National School Lunch Program’s strict food safety standards work.

A study led by researchers from the University of Connecticut and the…
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Lab robots crucial for end-to-end food safety data systems

By Mahni Ghorashi on December 14, 2017

Next generation sequencing is beginning to replace traditional DNA methods in food safety testing. As this trend continues, sequencing will no longer be the time intensive process it once was. Laboratories will be limited by…
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Briefly: Dating game — Info shortage — Down the drain

By News Desk on December 8, 2017

Every hour of every day people around the world are living with and working to resolve food safety issues. Here is a sampling of current headlines for your consumption, brought to you today with the…
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Researchers zap noro on fresh lettuce with blast of ionized gas

By News Desk on February 22, 2017

When you put one of the toughest bugs on the planet in a match-up with some of the most delicate fresh foods, it doesn’t take a Vegas mathematician to figure the odds are against the…
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Center for Produce Safety reveals 10 research grants for 2016

By Coral Beach on October 19, 2016

Ten of the good guys and gals in the battle to defeat foodborne illness just got $2 million from the Center for Produce Safety to help with seek-and-destroy efforts focused on pathogens’ pathways to people…
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Chicken Flock Study on Salmonella Transmission Makes Novel Discovery

By James Andrews on July 23, 2015

http://www.dreamstime.com/royalty-free-stock-images-chicken-farm-image24069509Despite Salmonella being the most common illness-causing foodborne bacteria in the U.S. food system, still very little is known about the precise processes through which the bacterium contaminates and transmits among its most pervasive carriers:…
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