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Clostridium Perfringens Linked to BBQ

Bill Marler

A case-control study, conducted via a RedCap survey with all participants of the BBQ event, and a food preparation review were conducted in response to this outbreak. Food for this event was prepared by a brick-and-mortar restaurant, Piggin’ Out Smokehouse, and then transported by and served from a food truck at the school.

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The Litigated Dish: Top foodborne pathogens

Food Safety News

I hope this will drive more traffic to my law firm’s many existing websites and blogs — we even have this newspaper: Food Safety News. I could contribute by answering the Internet’s most-asked food safety questions. This year, I’ll answer the internet’s most frequently asked foodborne illness and food safety-related questions.

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What you need to know about Norovirus during an Oyster Outbreak

Bill Marler

Transmission occurs either person-to-person or through contamination of food or water. CDC statistics show that food is the most common vehicle of transmission for noroviruses; of 232 outbreaks of norovirus between July 1997 and June 2000, 57% were foodborne, 16% were spread from person-to-person, and 3% were waterborne.

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