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2020 Food Safety Report | Science & Technology

The chemistry of peracetic acid

Daniel Sabo, Ph.D., Georgia Tech Research Institute, Food Processing Technology Division

March 9, 2020

Bacterial pathogens, such as Salmonella spp. and Campylobacter, continue to be the leading suspected causes of foodborne illnesses from poultry products today.

2020 Food Safety Report | Consultants Corner

Many small victories = 1 safe supply chain

The food-safety system in the U.S. works, if companies use the tools and innovations properly to protect consumers … and themselves.

Andrew Lorenz

March 9, 2020

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Another recall just came across the news feed. A few minutes before that, there was a news flash about a foodborne outbreak. It got me to thinking: What is the correlation, if any, between the foodborne outbreaks and recalls?

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The art of war, on foodborne illness

Shawn K. Stevens

August 20, 2019

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In "The Art of War," Sun Tzu admonishes us to know our enemy or be defeated by it. As a society, we have failed to heed that wisdom in our fight against foodborne illness.

Ground beef products recalled after outbreak of E. coli illnesses

Industry News

October 16, 2017

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On September 30, 2017, FSIS was notified of an investigation of E. coli O157:H7 illnesses.

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FSIS diverts attention to retail delis

Shawn K. Stevens

March 7, 2017

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As recently described in its 2017-22 five-year Strategic Plan, FSIS has announced it will begin to intensify inspections of retail delis as part of its new enforcement initiatives.

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Rapid-testing research targets O serogroups

Elizabeth Fuhrman

November 18, 2016

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MOL-PCR can rapidly screen samples concurrently for several STEC O serogroups and three major virulence factors (genes for two Shiga toxin and intimin).

Shawn Stevens to lead Webinar on how to protect your company from the criminalization of foodborne illness

Industry News

September 12, 2016

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This free webcast will take place on Wednesday, October 5th at 2:00PM EST.

Editorial

Reputations: tough to gain, easy to lose

Sam Gazdziak

February 5, 2016

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I haven’t been back to my local Chipotle for several months now, and that’s a shame.

FDA establishes new email alert service for foodborne illness outbreaks

Industry News

September 16, 2015

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Updates will include the most recent information available on current foodborne illness outbreak investigations, the number of illnesses and advice for consumers and industry.

Genome sequencing: Ready or not, here it is

Dennis R. Johnson

September 8, 2015

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In the last few years, we have seen the public health community (and regulatory agencies) utilize a new microbial analytical method that will ultimately be a game changer — genome sequencing (GS).