09 Nov Salmonellosis outbreak in Durban: imported eggs suspected
Salmonella bacteria, most likely from contaminated eggs, has put at least 30 people in the greater Durban area in hospital, and sickened many more.
31 May Nestlé opens most advanced lab in industry to study food pathogens
Nestlé has opened the most advanced laboratories of their kind in the food industry to study food-borne pathogens that are harmful to human health.
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21 Mar New natural weapon in war against salmonella
The poultry and meat industries are always looking for new and innovative advances in science and technology in battling salmonella — and an American biotech company has come up with a new spray-on solution that has just been confirmed GRAS by the US FDA.
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02 Aug Harvard-created coating keeps bacterial biofilms from forming on surfaces
Last June, scientists from Harvard University announced the development of their new SLIPS (Slippery Liquid-Infused Porous Surfaces) technology. When used to coat surfaces, it is highly effective at keeping ice, frost, or just about any type of liquid from accumulating on them. Now, it turns...
01 Aug Norwegian lab specialises in making deadly food
It's food, but not as we know it: a new processing plant in Norway is set to produce foods packed with deadly E.coli and cheese full of Listeria – all with aim of a better understanding of food contamination and safety....
27 Jul Germany’s deadly E. coli strain decoded
The secret to the deadly 2011 E. coli outbreak in Germany has been decoded, thanks to research conducted at Michigan State University....
25 May Afterlife: Making rotten food beautiful
Most people have pulled long-forgotten vegetables from their refrigerator's depths at least once, and just the memory is enough to make a stomach turn. But one man's fridge mould is another man's still life. Estonian artist, Heikki Leis' Afterlife is a veritable rotting cornucopia of...
12 Apr High-tech tactic to expose stealthy Salmonella
Even the smallest quantity of Salmonella may, in the future, be easily detected with the technology known as SERS, short for "surface-enhanced Raman scattering".
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15 Mar How Salmonella avoids the body’s immune response
Californian researchers have discovered how salmonella, a bacterium found in contaminated raw foods that causes major gastrointestinal distress in humans, thrives in the digestive tract despite the immune system's best efforts to destroy it....
15 Mar EU: Salmonella in humans continues to decrease, Campylobacter increasing
Salmonella cases in humans are on the decline in EU countries — down by nearly 9% in 2010, the sixth consecutive year for which a decrease was reported. Salmonella prevalence in poultry is also declining in the EU. The statistics come from an annual report...
01 Dec Norovirus stability in food manufacturing and the environment
Human noroviruses are the single biggest cause of gastroenteritis in the industrialised world and are associated with foodborne disease and rapid person to person transmission. New research has shed new light on the behaviour of these pathogens....
24 Oct Honey compound could fight foodborne pathogens
A Cornell University food scientist has identified an antimicrobial compound in a honey that makes it a promising candidate as a natural preservative to prevent foodborne illness and food spoilage.
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