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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: Resistant Klebsiella strain, egg-linked cases top 1,600, online flu advice, bioterror drug funds, H5N1 strategy

Sep 21, 2010

 

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

 

Consumer groups push Senate for action on food safety bill

(CIDRAP News) – In a move designed to draw attention to languishing food safety legislation in the US Senate, three national consumer groups today reported that 85 food recalls have been issued in the 13 months since similar legislation passed in the House.

Lisa Schnirring
 

NEWS SCAN: Pandemic planning and law, vaccine and narcolepsy, H5N1 spread, plant-based H5N1 vaccine, egg outbreak

Sep 3, 2010

 

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