Articles Tagged with ''foodborne illness''

An outbreak of E. coli infections has spread to three additional states: Pennsylvania, Illinois and Maryland.

The Mexican restaurant chain has hired IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group of Seattle, WA to help improve its food safety system.

CDC is investigating a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections it has traced back to sprouted nut butter spreads.

A California company has issued a recall for its vegetable mix officials identified as the source of E. coli in Costco’s rotisserie chicken salad.

To date, the outbreaks have infected people in nine states.

Starting with the Oct. 23 2015 Supplements to Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), CDC announced it will publish the summaries of all notifiable conditions – infectious and noninfectious – at the same time.

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, in collaboration with FDA and CDC will host a public meeting to update stakeholders on the Interagency Food Safety Analytics Collaboration’s (IFSAC) work to improve foodborne illness source attribution.

The CDC says an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis that infected 63 people across 10 states is likely to have originated from raw bean sprouts.

In the interest of public health, researchers at North Carolina State University have developed a set of guidelines on how to use social media to communicate about food safety.