Last March when we wrote here about an outbreak of Campylobacter being attributed to the mud in a bike race up in British Columbia, we thought it was a one-time weird event. We were wrong. It has happened again.
We have this report from Wales via Metro. Co.UK:
“Mud contaminated with sheep faeces was
We’d be happy if the grocery store carts just came with wheels that worked. We do admit looking at each cart pretty carefully before taking it and we’ve always stacked things with some strategy in mind. (You do have to think about where the diaper-clad rider was sitting an hour earlier.) And we have on
BioMed Central has published the abstract of a study into the character of Campylobacter isolates from infected children in northen Taiwan, as well as basic information about the patients, collected from December 2003 to February 2005.
The study involved a total of 894 fecal specimens were collected by several clinics and hospitals from children who
When an upper crust food chain like Whole Foods finds itself down in the muck with the likes of Nebraska Beef, its going to get noticed. And there’s been plenty of attention to Whole Foods stooping so low. Consider “Holy Cow, Whole Foods Linked to E. Coli Outbreak” in The Checkout Blog found on the
Campylobacter jejuni (pronounced “camp-e-low-back-ter j-june-eye”) is a bacterium that was first recognized as a cause of human gastrointestinal illness in 1975. Since that time, the bacterium has been identified as the most common cause of bacterial foodborne illness in the U.S., ahead of Salmonella – the second most common cause (MMWR Weekly, 2000, March 17
Campylobacter is the second most common cause of foodborne illness in the United States after Salmonella. Over 3,000 cases were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2003, or 12.6 cases for each 100,000 persons in the population. Many more cases go undiagnosed and unreported, with estimates as high as 2 to
Caesar Lundy, a retired Cincinnati chemist, has put the ultimate label on 2007:
“This has been the year of eating dangerously.
Consumer Reports got things rolling by reporting that 83 percent of all raw chickens harbor campylobacter or salmonella, leading causes of food- borne disease. Spring and summer brought 20 recalls of 30 million pounds
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Consumers Union is calling for the creation of a single food agency to ensure adequate, efficient and effective oversight of our nation’s food supply. Consumers Union welcomes today’s hearing in the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee to bring attention to the inadequacies in the government’s system to monitor food’s safety.
As highlighted in last week’s GAO
Campylobacter infection is a worldwide public health concern and is the leading cause of enteric illness in many countries. With about 50,000 human cases of illness per year, campylobacter is the most common known cause of food borne infection contracted inUK.
Tougher regulatory standards and more stringent testing cause delays in products hitting the shelves
Oxoid, marketing partner for the DuPont Qualicon Bax system in Europe, Australia and Canada, announces the launch of the new Bax real time PCR assay for Campylobacter
Most current screening procedures for Campylobacter are culture-based, take at least three days for a result and do not differentiate between species without additional investigational work. The new