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Sep 30, 2011

Sep 30, 2011

FDA plan aims to improve food safety at retail outlets

Robert Roos
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Sep 30, 2011

(CIDRAP News) – The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a "Retail Food Safety Action Plan" aiming to improve how food facilities manage their food safety efforts and how public health agencies oversee them.

The plan calls for strengthening state and local food safety requirements for retail facilities and improving training for their workers, the FDA said in an e-mail statement yesterday.

Sep 30, 2011

Sep 30, 2011

IOM: States, locals should decide where to store anthrax drugs

Lisa Schnirring
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Sep 30, 2011

(CIDRAP News) – Positioning supplies of antibiotics in communities has been proposed as the next step to prepare for a Bacillus anthracis attack, and state and local public health officials are in the best position to determine where and how they should be stored, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) expert group reported today.
Sep 30, 2011

Study suggests 1918 flu waves were caused by 'distinct' viruses

Robert Roos
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Sep 30, 2011

(CIDRAP News) – A new analysis of influenza outbreak patterns in several navies in 1918 suggests that the first and second waves of the pandemic were caused by "antigenically distinct" viruses, a conclusion that runs counter to some other recent studies that have tried to discern why the second wave was so much more deadly than the first.

Sep 29, 2011

Sep 28, 2011

Sep 28, 2011

Report: 395 mishaps at US labs risked releasing select agents

Robert Roos
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Sep 28, 2011

(CIDRAP News) – US government laboratories had 395 incidents that involved the potential release of select agents between 2003 and 2009, though only seven related infections were reported, according to a new National Research Council (NRC) report.

Sep 28, 2011

Cantaloupe Listeria outbreak grows: 18 states, 72 ill, 13 dead

Lisa Schnirring
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Sep 28, 2011

(CIDRAP News) – Seventeen more listeriosis infections, along with five more deaths, have been linked to a multistate outbreak tied to a Colorado farm's tainted cantaloupes, pushing the total to 72 illnesses and 13 deaths, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday.

Sep 28, 2011

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