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NEWS SCAN: TB funding plea, Navy ship pandemic outbreak, ground beef outbreak called over

Mar 18, 2013

 

FOOD SAFETY SCAN: Reduced US meat inspections, UK vendor food safety

Mar 14, 2013

 

FOODBORNE DISEASE SCAN: Salmonella in frogs and reptiles, cruise ship outbreak

 

NEWS SCAN: Quadrivalent flu shot trial in kids, aerosolized flu virus, ground-poultry safety steps

Mar 8, 2013

 

Study: Salmonella resistance to 2 key drugs increasing

(CIDRAP News) – A new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that resistance to two key antibiotics used to treat severe Salmonella infections is growing more common in the United States, although the prevalence in 2009 was still under 5%.

Robert Roos
 

FOOD SAFETY SCAN: Cantaloupe safety guidance, drug-resistant Shigella outbreak, animal antibiotics meetings

 

More cases in multistate Salmonella outbreak linked to chicken

(CIDRAP News) – Four more illnesses have been reported in a multistate Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak linked to a brand of retail chicken, and lab testing in Washington has detected the outbreak strain on products from patients' homes, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said yesterday.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Food safety report, raw milk Campylobacter outbreak grows, C diff clades

Mar 6, 2013

 

FOOD SAFETY SCAN: FDA seeks comments on food traceability report, BSE rule

 

FDA finds field contamination links in cantaloupe Salmonella probe

(CIDRAP News) – Salmonella contamination in an Indiana grower's melons linked to a 2012 outbreak likely occurred in the growing fields and was likely spread during various handling stages, according to an environmental assessment by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Lisa Schnirring
 

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