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PEW: 12 Charts Explore America’s Salmonella Problem—and Steps to Solve It Stronger rules for poultry would spur action on farms

Bill Marler

Food safety interventions on farms, such as vaccines targeting harmful serotypes, have likely contributed to meaningful reductions in product contamination and human illness. We write to supplement the November 12, 2021, letter with new research. 601(m)(1) and 21 U.S.C. § In their newly published review paper[4], O’Bryan et al.

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CA Noodle Company Received FDA Warning Letter for Failure to identify Hazards and Implement Controls

Penn State Food Safety Blog

We received your response to the FDA 483 via email on March 12, 2024. Your Food Safety Consultant informed the FDA investigators that the noodle manufacturing line is composed of custom manufacturing parts (e.g., (b)(4)) For example: i. b)(4)) that cannot be taken apart and adequately cleaned. In accordance with 21 CFR 101.4(e),

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Another frozen berry Hepatitis A outbreak – this time New Zealand

Bill Marler

There are 12 hepatitis A infections from eating frozen berries in New Zealand. 11] Person-to-person transmission occurs via the “fecal-oral route,” while all other exposure is generally attributable to contaminated food or water. [12] CDC 2013 [85] ; Swinkels et al., CDC 2013 [85] ; Swinkels et al., Severi et al.,

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More settlements reached in 2018 E. coli outbreak linked to Yuma romaine lettuce

Bill Marler

coli O157:H7,” [3] concluded that the risk of environmental contamination was in fact a well-known and long-standing risk: Food safety problems related to raw whole and fresh-cut (e.g., 36] The duration of an uncomplicated illness can range from one (1) to twelve (12) days. [37] 12] Konno T. coli O157:H7.

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FDA’s failures have consequences – real people – here is one story – there are countless others

Bill Marler

Helena Bottemiller Evich’s well done piece in Politico “The FDA’s Food Failure,” that hit the internet very early this morning, is a stunning, but not surprising, indictment of our government’s food safety failures that transcends political parties and administrations. The 12-French was what the ICU requested for her dialysis.

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Outbreak of Listeriosis in South Africa Associated with Processed Meat – Scientifically linked to Tiger Brands Polony

Bill Marler

The threshold of five cases per week was determined with the use of baseline laboratory data from January 1, 2013, to December 31, 2016. Maternal CD4 T-lymphocyte counts were known for 12 HIV-exposed neonates (20%); the median count was 479 cells per cubic millimeter (interquartile range, 322 to 575). Nevashan Govender, M.Sc.,

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