America’s Food Safety System Failed to Stop a Salmonella Epidemic. It’s Still Making People Sick.
In May 2018, a rare and virulent strain of Salmonella caught the attention of America’s top disease detectives. In less ...
Tag: Salmonella
New DNA Test Will Improve Tracking of Salmonella Food-Poisoning Outbreaks
Researchers report the development of a sensitive and specific assay to detect different serotypes of Salmonella, paving the way for rapid ...
Salad Bars and Water Systems are Easy Targets for Bioterrorists – and America’s Monitoring System is Woefully Inadequate
In October 2019, a House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Defending the Homeland from Bioterrorism: Are We ...
CFSAN Pathogen Detection Challenge Ending Soon
There are only two days left to complete the CFSAN Pathogen Detection Challenge. Sponsored by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
FDA Seeks Whole Room Decontamination System
The FDA Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment is seeking a whole room and surface decontamination system for its ...
Salmonella, 0157, STEC Strain Survival Variability Studies
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced intentions to award a sole-source contract to the Virginia Tech Eastern Shore ...
Food Safety: PulseNet’s 20-Year History of Saving Lives
A national network of public health laboratories prevents an estimated 270,000 cases of food poisoning and saves half a billion ...
CDC Revamps Foodborne Outbreak Database
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today released a redesigned online tool making it easier to search data ...
FDA Food Safety Challenge Winners Announced
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced the winners of the 2014 FDA Food Safety Challenge, a prize competition ...
Extreme Heat Increasing Salmonella Infections
Extreme heat and precipitation events, which are expected to increase in frequency and intensity due to climate change, are associated ...
Funding for Food Protection Rapid Response Teams
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Regulatory Affairs (ORA) Office of Foods and Veterinary Medicine (OFVM) has ...
FDA Clears New Targets for Luminex GI Pathogen Panel
Luminex Corporation this week announced it has received U.S. FDA clearance to add three new targets to its xTAG Gastrointestinal ...
FDA Sponsors Food Safety Innovation Challenge
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is asking for potential breakthrough ideas on how to find disease-causing organisms in food ...
Food Processing & Technology
The 3rd International Conference and Exhibition on Food Processing & Technology will be held July 21-23, 2014 in Las Vegas, ...
Study Reveals Salmonella’s Hideout Strategy
The body's innate immune system is a first line of defense, intent on sensing invading pathogens and wiping them out ...
Powerful Bacterial Immune Response Defined by New Study
T-cells, the elite guard of the immune system in humans and other mammals, ignore normal biologic protocol and swing into ...
Antibiotic Targets Genetic Signature of Specific Bacteria Strains
Credit: NIAID Researchers have developed a de facto antibiotic "smart bomb" that can identify specific strains of bacteria and sever ...
Auburn University Develops New Approach to Detect Food Contamination
As anyone who has ever consumed bacteria-contaminated food and experienced "food poisoning" can tell you, it's a miserable experience. Yet ...
New Design May Create More Effective Salmonella-Based Vaccines
Research from the Arizona State University Biodesign Institute describes efforts to improve the effectiveness of a Recombinant Attenuated Salmonella Vaccine ...
Life Technologies Signs 5-Year Food Safety Collaboration with FDA
Life Technologies Corporation this week announced that it has signed a five-year agreement with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to accelerate and ...
