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Food Safety and Poisoning

NEWS:

Acrylamide crops up in more foods

Better Food = Better Body

EPA Studies Vapors From Microwave Popcorn

Federal tests find perchlorate in food

FDA Issues Alert on Foodborne Illness Associated with Certain Basil and Mesculin/Spring Mix Salad Products

Food Poisoning Mixed Report Card

GM foods should be submitted to further studies, says BMA

Group Asks FDA To Ban Vegetable Oil Use

How to Avoid Food Poisoning

Is There An Organic Advantage?

Mercury Dangers For Unborn

Salmonella from Raw Meat Alert

States Sue EPA for Failing to Protect Children From Pesticides

The Cow Jumped Over the U.S.D.A.

The Tale of Acrylamide in Food

Wild Salmon Healthier Than Farmed

Your Meat & Poultry Safe?

ARTICLES:

Education key in fighting foodborne illnesses

Eggs: Refrigeration helps prevent salmonella

E. coli: Preventing a common type of food poisoning

Factsheet. Foodborne Disease.

Flu or Food Poisoning?

Food Safety

How to Avoid Food Poisoning

Is Salmon Safe? Contaminants Found, Risks Unclear

NGC-Diagnosis and management of foodborne illnesses: a primer for physicians and other health care professionals.

Seafood and Meat Safety

Serve it up safe: 8 ways to prevent food-borne illness

JOURNAL ARTICLES:

A quantitative risk assessment model for Salmonella and whole chickens. (Int J Food Microbiol)

Amnesic shellfish poison. (Food Chem Toxicol)

Attachment of Listeria monocytogenes on ready-to-eat meats. (J Food Prot)

Breast-feeding decreases the risk of sporadic salmonellosis among infants in FoodNet sites. (Clin Infect Dis)

Chicken consumption is a newly identified risk factor for sporadic Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis infections in the United States: a case-control study in FoodNet sites. (Clin Infect Dis)

Control of Listeria monocytogenes with combined antimicrobials on beef franks stored at 4 degrees C. (J Food Prot)

Diagnosis and management of foodborne illnesses: a primer for physicians and other health care professionals. (MMWR Recomm Rep)

Dietary intake of trans fatty acids and systemic inflammation in women (American Journal of Clinical Nutrition)

Dioxins, dioxin-like PCBs and non-dioxin-like PCBs in foodstuffs: occurrence and dietary intake in The Netherlands. (Toxicol Lett)

Dramatic decrease in the incidence of Salmonella serotype Enteritidis infections in 5 FoodNet sites: 1996-1999. (Clin Infect Dis)

Effect of hot water and hydrogen peroxide treatments on survival of salmonella and microbial quality of whole and fresh-cut cantaloupe. (J Food Prot)

Egg consumption is the principal risk factor for sporadic Salmonella serotype Heidelberg infections: a case-control study in FoodNet sites. (Clin Infect Dis)

Egg consumption patterns and Salmonella risk in Finland. (J Food Prot)

Estimates of trace metal bioavailability to humans ingesting contaminated oysters. (Food Chem Toxicol)

Farm visits and undercooked hamburgers as major risk factors for sporadic Escherichia coli O157:H7 infection: data from a case-control study in 5 FoodNet sites. (Clin Infect Dis)

Food safety in family homes in Melbourne, Australia. (J Food Prot)

Food safety: Emerging trends in foodborne illness surveillance and prevention. (J Am Diet Assoc)

Foodborne viruses: an emerging problem. (Int J Food Microbiol)

Fresh produce: a growing cause of outbreaks of foodborne illness in the United States, 1973 through 1997. (J Food Prot)

Hospitalizations and deaths due to Salmonella infections, FoodNet, 1996-1999. (Clin Infect Dis)

Infections related to the ingestion of seafood. Part II: parasitic infections and food safety. (Lancet Infect Dis)

Method of applying sanitizers and sample preparation affects recovery of native microflora and Salmonella on whole cantaloupe surfaces. (J Food Prot)

[Nutrition and health--toxic substances in food] (Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd)

Occurrence of Listeria monocytogenes in green table olives. (J Food Prot)

Outbreak of Salmonella serotype Enteritidis infections associated with raw almonds--United States and Canada, 2003-2004. (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep)

Preliminary FoodNet data on the incidence of infection with pathogens transmitted commonly through food--selected sites, United States, 2003. (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep)

Prolonged restaurant-associated outbreak of multidrug-resistant Salmonella Typhimurium among patients from several European countries. (Clin Microbiol Infect)

Public health and the BSE epidemic. (Curr Top Microbiol Immunol)

Restaurant Inspection Scores and Foodborne Disease (Emerg Infect Dis)

Risk factors for transmission of foodborne illness in restaurants and street vendors in Jakarta, Indonesia. (Epidemiol Infect)

Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak associated with a school-lunch dessert: cross-contamination and a long incubation period, Japan, 2001. (Epidemiol Infect)

Salmonella in sesame seed products. (J Food Prot)

Salmonella serotype Typhimurium outbreak associated with commercially processed egg salad--Oregon, 2003. (MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep)

The Association of Caffeinated Beverages With Blood Pressure in Adolescents (Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med)

The effect of temperature on food poisoning: a time-series analysis of salmonellosis in ten European countries. (Epidemiol Infect)

INTERNET SITES:

Food Safety

Foodborne Illness

Mercury in Seafood

NIH-CERHR: Listeria and Food Poisoning (10/28/03)

NIH-Drinking Water

NIH-E. Coli Infections

NIH-Food Contamination and Poisoning

NIH-Food Safety

NIH-NIDDK Bacteria and Foodborne Illness

NIH-Salmonella Infections

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