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NEWS SCAN: Biodefense adjuvant contract, raw milk cheese recall, drug-resistant E coli , eastern equine encephalitis

Jan 16, 2013

 

Leafy greens safety pact apparently failed in Canadian outbreak

(CIDRAP News) – Canadian authorities say all California lettuce shipped into Canada must be certified under the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA), a voluntary food safety program, which means the lettuce believed to be the source of a Canadian outbreak of Escherichia coli O157:H7 would have carried the LGMA seal.

Robert Roos
 

FOOD OUTBREAK SCAN: E coli outbreak points to lettuce, raw milk E coli alert

Jan 14, 2013

 

FOOD SAFETY SCAN: Produce-rule exemptions, virulent E coli strain

 

E coli outbreak study shows antibiotic impact on shedding

(CIDRAP News) – A study involving a large group of patients hospitalized during Germany's 2011 outbreak of a rare type of Escherichia coli spread by contaminated sprouts found that some patients shed the pathogen for several weeks or months and that antibiotic use seemed to shorten the shedding time.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: E coli in Canada, Campylobacter in plant workers, inactivated polio vaccine, polio attack arrests

 

NEWS SCAN: House passes preparedness law reauthorization, kids' foodborne illness risk, amoxicillin for lung infections

 

NEWS SCAN: E coli salad outbreak ends, USDA's 'test and hold' rule, more meningitis cases, infectious-disease advances

Dec 11, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: FDA shutters peanut plant, food illness test drawbacks, WHO on novel coronavirus, Hong Kong respiratory illness

Nov 27, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Fungal meningitis, E coli and cardiac events, daycare reptile rules, BSE agent in saliva, H5N1 in Bangladesh, new US malaria center

Nov 20, 2012

 

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