The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday issued a series of recommendations to enhance the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS's) ability to prevent Salmonella and Campylobacter contamination of poultry products. The report is dated Sep 30.
The plan will speed up the hunt for the source when ground beef is tainted with E coli O157:H7.
A World Health Organization (WHO) emergency committee has extended a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) over the global polio situation and the temporary recommendations that came with it, the WHO said in a statement yesterday. The group met by teleconference on Jul 31, its first meeting since it first declared the PHEIC on May 5.
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) yesterday released a final report on a 2013 Escherichia coli outbreak traced to pre-packaged salads sold at Trader Joe's stores that sickened 33 people in four states, Food Safety News (FSN) reported today.
Saudi Arabia has begun work on a case-control study to try to pinpoint how people contract MERS-CoV, something that critics of the government's response have been demanding for many months, according to a Reuters report today.
Eighteen more illnesses, including five from a second subtype, have been reported in a multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to contact with pet bearded dragons, and four more states are reporting cases, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday in an update.
The new cases push the outbreak total to 150 and the number of affected states to 35.
An outbreak of Escherichia coli O121 infections in Washington and Idaho has been linked to raw clover sprouts, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and state health officials announced.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its state health partners are investigating a Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak linked to frozen rodents used to feed pet snakes and other reptiles. So far 37 illnesses in 18 states have been reported since Jan 11, the CDC said in its outbreak announcement today
Reports of 11 E coli cases in 4 states have prompted a recall of 1.8 million pounds of ground beef.
A measles outbreak in Ohio has reached 73 cases—the largest state outbreak since 1996—and has helped spur US cases to some of their highest levels in recent years, according to data from the Ohio Department of Health (ODH) and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
