Featured Bacterial Detection Articles

  1. Ongoing-Cyclosporiasis Outbreak Sickens More Than 200 8/13/2014

    A source has yet to be identified in the most recent cyclosporiasis outbreak, which now encompasses 19 states and New York City.

  2. Salmonella — The Deadly Truth About Cross-Contamination 8/12/2014

    Salmonella knows no boundaries. The evidence of cross-contamination is the fact that in all instances of outbreaks, only a small percentage of cases are traced back to the original source —though pathological testing links the outbreak’s specific strains.

  3. Cargill's Risk-Assessment Tool Is Shaping Its Shrimp Farms' Biosecurity 8/11/2014

    The company’s new tool is the next step in an effort to mitigate the effects of the bacteria vibrio.

  4. FSIS Wants Proof Of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella Strains Being Exceptionally Dangerous 8/6/2014

    More than three years after the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s petition requested adulterant status for antibiotic-resistant Salmonella, FSIS declines to act

  5. Food-Illness Outbreak Investigations Will Be Transformed By Rapid Whole-Genome Testing 7/31/2014

    Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis may become a thing of the past. Rapid Whole-Genome Testing is expected to replace it with lab-friendly, bench-top equipment and the unsurpassed ability to identify specific pathogenic DNA.

  6. Stiff Competition Endangers Food Safety Diagnostic Companies 7/29/2014

    The demand for ever-increasing, competitively-priced, pathogenic food testing is exhausting the limits of some food safety diagnostic companies.

  7. The U.S. And China Are Taking On Food Safety Together 7/29/2014

    The University of California, Davis, and one of China’s most important agricultural colleges have combined forces to form a food safety research center.

  8. Antibiotic Use Is OK In Livestock Production, Says NY Court 7/28/2014

    The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York has decided the FDA is not required to hold investigations regarding the safety of giving antibiotics to animals raised for food at sub-therapeutic levels.

  9. Cyclosporiasis Outbreak Now Encompasses 13 States 7/25/2014

    Starting innocuously enough, with just a report on a Tarrant County, TX television station, the first report of the outbreak occurred on July 23. By July 24, the infection has grown to 125 cases in 13 states.

  10. Listeria Scare Isn't Over For Wawona Packing 7/24/2014

    Wawona Packing recalled fruit packaged between June 1 and July 12, but much of it was most-likely consumed before the recall was announced on July 19. With an incubation period lasting up to 70 days, the company isn’t out of the woods just yet