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October 03, 2006 • Outbreaks

October 03, 2006 • Outbreaks

October 03, 2006 • Outbreaks

October 02, 2006 • Outbreaks

October 02, 2006 • Outbreaks

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October 02, 2006 • Outbreaks

October 02, 2006 • Hepatitis A

Food illnesses at record lows

By MARILYNN MARCHIONE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE CALIFORNIAN/RICHARD GREEN VIA THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Spinach is inspected at a farm near Castroville, Calif., on Friday. The consumer warning on most fresh spinach was lifted last week. SAN FRANCISCO — Despite the recent E. coli spinach outbreak, food may be safer now …

October 02, 2006 • Outbreaks

October 02, 2006 • Hepatitis A

U.S. Food Illnesses at Record Low Rates

Monday, October 02, 2006 SAN FRANCISCO — Despite the recent E. coli spinach outbreak, food may be safer now than at any other time in the last decade, with illness occurring at record-low rates, new federal statistics show. Consumers get part of the credit, for handling food more safely at …

October 02, 2006 • Listeria

The Truth About Expiration Dates

Since the spinach scare, food safety is foremost on the minds of grocery shoppers nationwide. Dates on labels? Here is what you need to know. http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/oct2006/db20061002_959305.htm? chan=top+news_top+news+index_after+work …

October 02, 2006 • Salmonella

Regulators, scientists form food safety networks

By Ahmed ElAmin http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/ng.asp?n=70957-efsa-food-safety-campylobacter 02/10/2006 – Over the last month, regulators, doctors and scientists have formed communications networks to get a better fix on the problems affecting food safety across the bloc. The networks are part of the general increase in regulatory and scientific efforts to reduce food borne pathogens …

October 02, 2006 • Salmonella

Scientists identify Salmonella protein infecting immune cells

Scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have identified a protein in Salmonella bacteria that enables it to infect immune cells called macrophages. Salmonella, which causes food poisoning, slips unnoticed and multiplies inside macrophages – immune system cells on which the body relies to seek and destroy the invading microbes. To …

October 01, 2006 • Outbreaks

October 01, 2006 • Outbreaks

October 01, 2006 • Outbreaks

October 01, 2006 • Outbreaks

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September 30, 2006 • Outbreaks

September 30, 2006 • Events & Speaking Engagements

Food and Drug Association's Food Safety Education Conference, Colorado (2006)

Dave Babcock participated in a panel discussion on liability related to foodborne illness on September 29, 2006, in Denver, Colorado. The panel was part of the FDA's Food Safety Education Conference. …

September 30, 2006 • Outbreaks

September 30, 2006 • Outbreaks

September 29, 2006 • Outbreaks

September 29, 2006 • Salmonella

Identifying outbreak is a public health challenge

Questions linger about the contamination source and farming and irrigation practices. But in the current spinach-related E. coli O157:H7 outbreak, at least word got out quickly, says Susan Brink for the Los Angeles Times. Less than a week elapsed between Sept. 8, when Wisconsin notified the Centers for Disease Control …

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