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Mar 31, 2009

Mar 31, 2009

Experts update businesses on antiviral stockpiling

Lisa Schnirring
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Mar 31, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – Antiviral resistance and the global economic downturn might present new obstacles for corporate antiviral stockpiling, but two medical experts today said the medications are still quick, reliable tools that can help preserve business continuity in an influenza pandemic.

Mar 31, 2009

Mar 31, 2009

H5N1 virus may be adapting to pigs in Indonesia

Robert Roos
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Mar 31, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – Scientists report that H5N1 avian influenza viruses may be adapting to pigs, as evidenced by the finding that H5N1 viruses isolated from pigs in Indonesia were less harmful to mice than were H5N1 viruses from chickens.

Mar 30, 2009

Mar 30, 2009

Salmonella findings prompt FDA warning on pistachios

Lisa Schnirring
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Mar 30, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today warned consumers to avoid eating pistachios after a California producer recalled 1 million pounds of its product because of tests by a food company that showed contamination with four different Salmonella strains.
Mar 30, 2009

Spices suspected in 4-state Salmonella outbreak

Lisa Schnirring
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Mar 30, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – Public health officials in four states are investigating a Salmonella outbreak associated with spices made by a California company that has so far sickened 42 people, 33 of them in California.

Mar 27, 2009

Mar 27, 2009

US inspectors find food products hard to trace

Lisa Schnirring
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Mar 27, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – Federal inspectors who conducted a survey to identify gaps in the nation's food traceability system told a House subcommittee yesterday that they managed to trace only 5 of 40 products through the full production and distribution chain and that some food facilities didn't know they needed to keep source contact information.

Mar 26, 2009

Mar 25, 2009

Mar 25, 2009

Policy group says FDA needs single food safety chief

Robert Roos
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Mar 25, 2009

(CIDRAP News) – A public health policy group today urged the government to put one person in charge of all food safety efforts at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a first step toward preventing the kinds of foodborne disease outbreaks that have plagued the nation in recent years.

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