EU mulls regulation changes for raw juices and Listeria in sprouted seeds
Leaders of the European Union are looking at changing regulations around unpasteurized juices and Listeria monocytogenes in sprouted seeds. The draft legislation states that because the European...
View ArticleChanging food sector could impact microbiological safety risks
Changes to the way food is produced, processed and offered to consumers could affect food safety, according to a microbiology society in the United Kingdom. A Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM)...
View ArticleExperts call for global DNA database to help disease surveillance
Scientists are urging government officials to consider helping to develop an international database to share and analyze DNA sequences. Such a system is a platform for storing whole genome sequencing...
View ArticleResearchers help identify relevant genes in bacterial infections
Researchers have developed a database to make it easier to identify target proteins that can help fight infectious diseases. Scientists from the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of the...
View ArticleResearchers contend inexpensive method could change outbreak investigation...
Researchers say they believe they have found a cheap method to identify bacteria in a few hours on a mobile-phone-sized device. The bacterial identification method, called ON-rep-seq, examines...
View ArticleStudy finds 4 of 13 beef plants sampled in Brazil were contaminated with...
Note on correction: the headline has been corrected. Four of nine plants tested positive. Researchers have estimated the prevalence of Listeria monocytogenes in beef from the Brazilian state of Mato...
View ArticleStudy reveals foodborne illness burden in Taiwan
One in six Taiwanese people suffered from foodborne illness annually during a four year period studied by researchers. From 2012 to 2015, almost 3.9 million foodborne illnesses and 50 deaths occurred...
View ArticleIndustry Consortium Begins Enormous DNA Sequencing Project for Food Safety
Mars Inc. and IBM Research have teamed up for an ambitious food safety whole-genome sequencing project. The Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain will study the the microbial ecology of...
View ArticleFSA project looks at global meat safety processes in U.S., other countries
A better understanding of potential foodborne disease risks from imported meat products has been set out in a report published by the Food Standards Agency. Researchers created profiles of 16...
View ArticleStudy finds STEC in raw meat pet food
A study in Switzerland has identified feeding pets raw meat could be a potential source of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli for people and animals. Giving domesticated animals raw meat-based diets (RMBDs)...
View ArticleGlobal Microbe Genome Database Represents ‘Some Exciting Science’
If the world’s food safety scientists act now, they have the opportunity to create a global network of microbial data that will dramatically improve the ability to track and combat disease outbreaks of...
View ArticleProblems found at site linked to Italian Salmonella outbreak
Poor conditions at a production site likely contributed to a Salmonella outbreak that sickened more than 60 people in Italy, according to researchers. In the summer of 2022, a foodborne outbreak...
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