Health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak in the Greenwood area that has sickened at least two dozen people in the last two months, reports the Indianapolis Star.
In June and July, 48 cases of salmonella have been reported in Marion and Johnson Counties. That’s about 30 cases more than are reported in a typical
The State Health Department is trying to head off a Salmonella outbreak after dozens of people in southern Marion and northern Johnson counties have reported cases in recent days.
The State Health Department says it normally sees a few cases a year. “But we are seeing quite a dramatic increase,” Lynae Granzow with the department
Latham’s Meat Co., a North Jackson restaurant, voluntarily closed its doors for two days in late July after some 30 to 40 people who claimed to have gotten sick from eating barbecue there tested positive for salmonella, according to the Jackson Sun.
Health department officials could not say for sure that the salmonella infection
The Federal Service for the Oversight of Consumer Protection and Welfare, which is investigating the incident, was cited as saying that a total of 301 foreign and Russian construction workers have now been hospitalized in Moscow and its environs with food poisoning.
Earlier reports said the workers could have contracted Salmonella poisoning, a potentially lethal
A new testing kit for Salmonella promises to give the most sensitive detection results in less than a day, its manufacturers claim. Oxoid claims its DuPont lateral flow system Salmonella test has the ability to detect one colony forming unit of Salmonella in a 25g food sample within 24 hours.
The kit has its own
Adherence of bacteria to cantaloupe rind is favored by surface irregularities such as roughness, crevices, and pits, thus reducing the ability of washing or sanitizer treatments to remove or inactivate attached cells.
In a study published in the August issue of the Journal of Food Protection, researchers compared the surface charge and hydrophobicity of two
To evaluate the survival of Salmonella on raw almond surfaces, whole almond kernels were inoculated with Salmonella Enteritidis and the results published in the August issue of the Journal of Food Protection.
Some inoculated almonds, after a 24-h drying period, were stored for 161 days at 23.3 degrees C. Other inoculated kernels, after drying, were
The effectiveness of radiation treatment in eliminating Salmonella Typhimurium and Listeria monocytogenes on laboratory inoculated ready-to-eat sprouts was studied in the August issue of the Journal of Food Protection.
Dry seeds of mung, matki, chana, and vatana were used in the testing. Radiation treatment with a 2-kGy dose resulted in complete elimination of 104 CFU/g
A total of 222 migrant construction workers have been hospitalized in a food poisoning outbreak in the Russian capital and 10 are in serious condition.
According to Nikolai Malychev, chief doctor of Moscow’s infectious diseases hospital number one, 127 labourers had been hospitalised in four Moscow hospitals, and 95 more in several Moscow region hospitals.
Item: 5-ounce containers of alfalfa sprouts.
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Item: Baby spinach and spring mix
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