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.
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29 Aug Salmonella in spices prompts changes in Indian farming
Spices grown in the mist-shrouded Western Ghats of India have fueled wars, fortunes and even the discovery of continents, and for thousands of years farmers harvested them in the same traditional ways. Until now. US FDA concerns on high levels of salmonella contamination...
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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27 Feb US: Law finally catches up with salmonella-in-peanut-butter culprits
It’s taken four or five years, but the US Dept of Justice has finally indicted four employees of Peanut Corp of America, formerly of Lynchburg, Va, charging they knowingly shipped salmonella-contaminated peanuts and peanut products in 2008 and 2009, which led to massive...
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....
08 Aug US: Massive record-breaking turkey recall after salmonella outbreak
Cargill has initiated the third-biggest recall in US history, pulling almost 36 million pounds (16,363m kilograms) of ground turkey after an outbreak of multi-drug resistant strain of Salmonella Heidelberg linked to one death and 79 illnesses in 26 states. ...
28 Apr USDA issues Salmonella compliance guide for RTE meat products
The Food Safety and Inspection Service of the US Department of Agriculture has published a set of compliance guidelines to help small and very small meat and poultry processors reduce the incidence of Salmonella in ready-to-eat products. [While these relate to American scenarios, the guide...