Food Safety

FDA Investigates Outbreak of Hepatitis A Illnesses Potentially Associated with a Frozen Fruit Blend

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as state and local officials are investigating a multi-state outbreak of hepatitis A illnesses potentially associated with a frozen food blend. Townsend Farms, Inc. of ...More
2 weeks ago
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Slide Show: Listeria Infections

A new CDC Vital Signs report says that Listeria food poisoning is striking hard at the nation’s most vulnerable populations. Adults aged 65 years and older are among the groups most affected; they are four times more likely to get Listeria infection than the general U.S. ...More
3 weeks ago
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Older Americans, Pregnant Women Face Highest Risk from Listeria Food Poisoning

Listeria can cause serious infection in certain vulnerable groups, resulting in higher rates of hospitalization and death than most other bacteria commonly spread by contaminated food. A new Vital Signs report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) outlines ...More
3 weeks ago
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Reducing Pathogen Loads at Poultry Farms, Processing Plants Can Address Foodborne Illness Risks

Researchers at the University of Georgia, Athens, have identified a strong link between the prevalence and load of certain foodborne pathogens on poultry farms, and later downstream at the processing plant. They report their findings in a manuscript published ahead of print ...More
3 weeks ago
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FDA Releases New Tool to Help Prevent Intentional Food Contamination

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has released a new tool to help bolster the food industry’s defense measures against an act of intentional food contamination. The Food Defense Plan Builder is a comprehensive, easy-to-use software program designed to help owners and ...More
May 14, 2013
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Slide Show: Foodborne Illness Trends

ICT presents highlights from the CDC's latest FoodNet report showing data on foodborne illness trends for 2012. ...More
April 18, 2013
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Infections From Some Foodborne Pathogens Increased While Others Remained Unchanged in 2012

The nation’s annual food safety report card is out and it shows that 2012 rates of infections from two germs spread commonly through food have increased significantly when compared to a baseline period of 2006-2008, while rates of most others have not changed during the ...More
April 18, 2013
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Say No to Double-Dipping this Super Bowl Sunday, Germ Expert Advises

If you choose your menu carefully, you can increase the chance that your Super Bowl party on Sunday stays in the germ-free zone, says Donna Duberg, a germ expert at Saint Louis University. One of the big keys, says Duberg, assistant professor of clinical lab science, is ...More
January 30, 2013
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CDC Releases First Estimates of the Food Sources of All Foodborne Illnesses in the U.S.

A new paper from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “Attribution of Foodborne Illnesses, Hospitalizations, and Deaths to Food Commodities By Using Outbreak Data, United States, 1998-2008” is being published in the Emerging Infectious Diseases journal. For ...More
January 29, 2013
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CDC Investigating Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium Infections Linked to Ground Beef

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is collaborating with public health officials in many states and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA-FSIS) to investigate a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium ...More
January 28, 2013
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