RMC program to explore innovative strategies for controlling pathogenic E. coli
The American Meat Science Association (AMSA) is pleased to announce that, Dr. Terrance Arthur, USDA/ARS U.S. Meat Animal Research Center; Dr. Vanessa Sperandio, UT Southwestern Medical Center and Dr. James Wells, USDA/ARS U.S. Meat Animal Research Center will be the featured speakers in theAMSA 67th Reciprocal Meat Conference (RMC) Food Safety Symposium sponsored by Corbion Purac, on Monday, June 16th. The beef industry continues to be challenged with control of pathogens in beef products. This session will feature innovative research that increases understanding of how pathogenic E. coli survive and flourish in the bovine digestive system.
Dr. Terrance Arthur will focus on High Event Periods - sporadic peaks in contamination rates where multiple E. coli O157:H7-positive lots are clustered in a short time frame. His research group determined that individual High Event Periodsshow little to no diversity of strain genotype. Each High Event Periodhas one strain type that makes up most if not all of the contamination. This differs from the genotypic diversity of E. coli O157:H7 found on the hides of cattle entering processing plants.