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Public health, food safety agencies brace for budget cuts

(CIDRAP News) – Public health and food safety agencies are among the many sectors bracing for the impact of automatic budget cuts slated to kick in tomorrow, but there is much uncertainty about when and how the cuts will be felt.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: FDA cantaloupe inspections, more Campylobacter cases, polio-team killing, stable Legionnaires' bacterium

 

NEWS SCAN: Salmonella peanut outbreak indictment, UN immunity over Haiti cholera

 

NEWS SCAN: Low-path H5N1 in Germany, turtle-linked Salmonella, Campylobacter in raw milk, FSMA comment deadline

Feb 18, 2013

 

Multistate Salmonella outbreak tied to chicken sickens 124

(CIDRAP News) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced yesterday that it is investigating a Salmonella Heidelberg outbreak simmering since last June that has sickened at least 124 people in 12 states.

Lisa Schnirring
 

FOOD SAFETY SCAN: Potential food inspection cuts, botulism antitoxin recommendation

Feb 14, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Salmonella in ground beef, food safety comment period, Google Flu Trends, measles vaccination in Europe

Feb 13, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Ag antibiotics in China, FDA food safety meetings, H5N1 in Nepal, polio in Niger

Feb 12, 2013

 

NEWS SCAN: Budget cuts and food safety, listeriosis from cheese, Brazil's BSE risk status

 

NEWS SCAN: Canadian E coli outbreak over, militants kill Nigerian polio workers

Feb 8, 2013

 

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