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IOM: FDA should work for better product-safety systems abroad

(CIDRAP News) – With the United States importing a vast river of foods and medicines from abroad, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other organizations need to increase their efforts to improve product safety monitoring in developing countries, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) said in a report released today.

Robert Roos
 

FOODBORNE DISEASE NEWS SCAN: Sushi possible Salmonella source, final sproutbreak report, cholera in Haiti

 

NEWS SCAN: Listing beef product on labels, measles vaccine study

Apr 2, 2012

 

NEWS SCAN: Support for beef trim product, food handler training, dengue's effect on mosquitoes

 

NEWS SCAN: Climate change and foodborne disease, tests for acute gastroenteritis, microchip for detecting flu, malaria and age

 

NEWS SCAN: Pressure treatment for peppers, cholera vaccine update, two-drug TB regimen

 

NEWS SCAN: E coli in lettuce, ruling on animal antibiotics, FMD in Egypt, meningitis in Africa

Mar 23, 2012

 

Studies: US gastroenteritis deaths, imported food outbreaks on rise

(CIDRAP News) – The number of US gastroenteritis deaths more than doubled in 8 years, with Clostridium difficile and norovirus as the two most common culprits, researchers reported today at an infectious disease conference.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: E coli treatment, antibiotic resistance in EU, flu vaccine in preschoolers, measles-shot warnings, Lyme disease risk

Mar 14, 2012

 

Funding gap stalls food safety centers of excellence

(CIDRAP News) – Federal funding shortfalls have stalled the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) progress on establishing five centers of excellence that were included in the 2011 Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), according to sources involved in setting criteria for the new centers.

Lisa Schnirring
 

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