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NEWS SCAN: Salmonella in Oklahoma, critique of antivaccine efforts, mandatory flu vaccination, H1N1 transmission, polio in Angola

Oct 4, 2010

 

FOOD SAFETY NEWS SCAN: Food safety bill, delay in egg inspections

 

NEWS SCAN: H1N1 prevention, neurologic complications; detecting flu severity; food bill deadlock; dengue in the Bahamas

Sep 24, 2010

 

FOOD SAFETY NEWS SCAN: How Salmonella survives and thrives, food safety bill stalls again

 

Food safety turns partisan in House hearing on tainted eggs

(CIDRAP News) – The US Senate's battle over pending food safety legislation erupted in a House of Representatives committee hearing on Salmonella in eggs today, where two illness victims gave a face to the outbreak and farm owners faced public questions for the first time, with one of them blaming feed ingredients for the contamination.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Anthrax vaccine contract, Salmonella in feed, flu vaccine stability, flu shots for adults, new TB test

Sep 17, 2010

 

NEWS SCAN: H1N1 co-infections, low post-H1N1 immunity, sick hospital workers, food safety reform, Lassa fever case

 

NEWS SCAN: Egg farm findings, dengue in France, vaccine-autism case, anthrax in Bangladesh, flu in India, mandatory flu shots

Sep 14, 2010

 

Federal inspectors say outside pressures hurt food safety

(CIDRAP News) – Many federal food safety workers say their work has been hampered by corporate interests, political pressure, and influence from other groups, according to a survey released today by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS).

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: More egg safety questions, mandatory flu shots, emergency volunteers

Sep 9, 2010

 

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