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E. coli Health department officials in Hawaii are trying to track down the source of an E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that has sickened nine. Four people – one adult and three kids – have been hospitalized. The three children also developed hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS), a kidney disease that is associated with pathogenic E. [...] Ah, nostalgia. It’s been a busy year here at the Neogen blog. We’ve covered quite a range of stuff, from food safety reforms to happy elephants in Thailand (scroll down for details – hint, hint) to decoding DNA. So kick back, relax and take a stroll down the Neogen blog’s memory lane. Food [...] E. coli E. coli O157:H7, one of the most common illness-causing strains of E. coli, can survive in the soil of California’s Salinas Valley for about 30 days – roughly ten days more than it does in Imperial Valley, Calif. or Yuma, Ariz. Researchers attribute the longer lifespan to lower salinity in irrigation water [...] E. coli E. coli O157:H7 testing may soon be more risk-based, according to a notice posted in the Federal Register. The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced it is seeking comments on a redesign of its E. coli O157:H7 verification system to make it more risk-based while also allowing the agency to [...] E. coli No source has been found for an E. coli outbreak that sickened more than a dozen people and claimed the life of a toddler, according to the final report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, published July 20, lists the final number of people sickened by the outbreak [...] E. coli Three out of 110 samples tested positive for strains of E. coli since a new testing program took effect in June. The samples were taken during routine testing and were tested for seven strains of Shiga-toxin producing E. coli, or STECs, including E. coli O157:H7, and the non- O157 strains O26, O45, [...] Come July 1, it will be illegal to serve raw beef liver in restaurants in Japan. The move comes after recent tests that show E. coli O157:H7 – the strain of E. coli responsible for most infections of the pathogen – was found not only on the exterior of raw liver, but also the interior, [...] |
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