USDA statistics indicate there has been a steady increase in Salmonella contamination in poultry over the last five years. Salmonella is a difficult pathogen for the poultry industry to combat, because it is naturally present in birds, and difficult to eliminate.
The latest data on poultry contamination compiled by the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection
The number of Americans eating risky foods like undercooked ground beef, raw fish, oysters and runny eggs dropped by a third over a four-year period, reports All Headline News.
The survey led researchers to conclude that media reporting and public health education efforts on risky eating habits and food-borne illnesses may be working.
The proportion
Salmonella is a microscopic bacterium that lives in the intestinal tracts of animals and people. An infection, usually transmitted by contaminated food, can make you quite sick.
Many raw foods contain salmonella, including uncooked chicken and other forms of poultry. But the good news is that proper cooking usually kills it, says the CDC.
Salmonella
A restaurant run by one of the area’s top chefs has been given advice over food safety after a major salmonella scare involving a funeral buffet.
Two elderly guests who ate the buffet at The Bridge in Fenny Stratford ended up in hospital and another two guests were unwell. One of them, an 85-year-old man
Sanitized cantaloupes have been found to still be susceptible to Salmonella recontamination.
Research was undertaken to determine the effects of sanitizer and hot water treatments on microbial populations on cantaloupe surfaces and to determine whether prior decontamination of melons by sanitizer treatment affects vulnerability to recontamination by Salmonella.
The results of a study clearly showed
Infection biologists and proteomics researchers have now identified all the proteins involved in Salmonella metabolic paths during an infection.
Dirk Bumann of Hannover Medical School led a team including Daniel Becker, Claudia Rollenhagen, Matthias Ballmaier and Thomas Meyer of the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology. They isolated Salmonella from infected mice.
Proteomics researchers Matthias
Serenade Foods has recalled approximately 75,600 pounds of frozen stuffed raw chicken entrees. Because of the product’s frozen state, the product label, and cooked appearance of the product, consumers may incorrectly assume that these products are cooked, according to USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service. FSIS said the stuffed entrees may have been contaminated with
Serenade Foods of Milford Illinois is recalling about 75,800 pounds of frozen stuffed chicken entrees sold under the Maple Leaf Farms name. The products were contaminated with a type of Salmonella often associated with chicken.
According to the USDA, the raw chicken entrees, which appear cooked, may have caused some consumers to believe the products
FSIS is aiming to reduce the presence of Salmonella in raw meat and poultry products. The initiative will include concentrating resources at establishments with higher levels of Salmonella and changes to the reporting and utilization of FSIS Salmonella verification test results.
The effort is patterned after the highly successful FSIS initiative to reduce the presence
Salmonella poisoning, dysentery, the plague, typhoid fever, and a number of other serious ailments are caused by a diverse group of bacterial pathogens that have one thing in common: They all use the same syringe-like system to infect their hosts.
Known as a "type III secretion system," this trait allows bacteria to inject virulent proteins