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salmonella
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Reporter uses FDA, USDA documents to find year’s biggest food recall
In 2018, salmonella, e. coli and listeria bacteria were the cause of a number of big food recalls – from…
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Research: Finesse, transparency key when reporting foodborne illness outbreaks
A mainstay of health reporting is covering outbreaks of foodborne illness, whether it’s salmonella in peanut butter (and its criminal…
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Webcast: Using NARMS Now, a CDC data tool on antibiotic resistance
This year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention launched the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS Now), a database…
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Project follows the race to make bagged salad safer
The latest investigation by California HealthCare Foundation Center for Health Reporting’s Deborah Schoch will make you think twice before ripping…
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New stats: 1 in 6 get foodborne illnesses each year
More precise estimates than previously available find that one in six Americans suffer foodborne illnesses annually and that 3,000 die…
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Investigating, localizing salmonella outbreak
As some of you may have noticed, there’s an egg recall going on. It all began when the CDC’s PulseNet…
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CDC releases 2007 foodborne illness numbers
In the latest Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, the CDC has released the 2007 numbers on foodborne illness in the…
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Little recent progress on foodborne illnesses
The CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report contains some early numbers on foodborne illness rates in 2009. The data, NPR…
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Private food auditors didn’t stop outbreaks
Michael Moss and Andrew Martin of The New York Times reviewed several major recent outbreaks of foodborne illness and discovered…
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Salmonella outbreak may linger for 2 years
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution‘s Craig Schneider reports that, because of the long shelf-life of peanut products and the difficulty and complexity…