Editor’s note: This column by FDA’s Steven Musser and Eric L. Stevens was originally published on the agency’s blog.
Continue Reading WGS could be WMD in global battle against foodborne illness
Editor’s note: This column by FDA’s Steven Musser and Eric L. Stevens was originally published on the agency’s blog.
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Continue Reading WGS could be WMD in global battle against foodborne illness
Update: The government of the Solomon Island provided Food Safety News with more information on the health emergency they are facing. Here is that statement: “The Ministry of Health and Medical Services (MHMS) would like …
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It’s difficult to summarize what happened on the animal antibiotics front this year. There were lots of pledges, lots of discussions and lots of reports, but not very many actions. Still, we still wanted to…
Continue Reading 2015 in Review: Animal Antibiotics
About one in every 10 people around the world is sickened by foodborne disease each year. Of those 600 million people, 420,000 die as a result. These numbers are the first global estimates — conservative…
Continue Reading WHO Releases First Global Estimates of Foodborne Disease
This week, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the governments of several countries want people to learn more about antibiotics. Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health today, and, while it…
Continue Reading First World Antibiotic Awareness Week Focuses on Education
A couple of weeks ago, when I found myself putting a few thousand miles on a new truck in the upper Midwest, I forgot to take enough music along to cover all that distance. That…
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The World Health Organization (WHO) has totaled up some economic costs of the 2011 outbreak of the rare and deadly E. coli O104:H4 centered on Northern Europe. Farmers and industries lost $1.3 billion, and emergency…
Continue Reading 2011 Outbreak of Rare E. Coli Strain was Costly for Europe
(This post by Danisha Garner, a graduate student in NC State’s Department of Food, Bioprocessing and Nutrition Sciences, is the second in a series leading up to April 7, when the World Health Organization will …
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Food Safety News wrote a lot about antibiotic resistance this year — particularly the debate surrounding the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) plan to phase out the use of certain antibiotics in food animals, introduced…
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When it comes to food safety concerns, foodborne parasites might not receive as much attention in the U.S. compared to bacteria such as E. coli and Salmonella. Globally, however, foodborne parasites affect the health of…
Continue Reading UN Report Ranks Global Health Impact of Foodborne Parasites