Outbreak: Foodborne Illness and the Struggle for Food Safety

Microorganisms and Foodborne Illness MF - 2269 Food Safety

Kansas State University Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service • Manhattan Microorganisms are tiny living creatures, much too small to see with the naked eye. In recent years, a number of widely reported outbreaks of foodborne illnesses caused by microbial contamination have increased public awareness and concern about the safety of food. Microorganisms are everywhere...

An overview of foodborne illness and food safety in Malaysia

Foodborne disease has been associated with microorganisms like bacteria, fungi, viruses and parasites. Most commonly, the outbreaks take place due to the ingestion of pathogenic bacteria like Salmonella Typhi, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Vibrio cholera, Campylobacter jejuni, and Listeria monocytogenes. The disease usually happens as a result of toxin secretion of the microorganisms...

Comparing Sporadic and Outbreak-associated Foodborne Illness

[Eric Ebel] This project was inspired by a manuscript written by John Painter and others at the CDC – that was eventually published in EID in 2013. That paper estimated the fraction of different microbial illnesses that were attributed to different food categories. For example, it provided an estimate of what fraction of Salmonella illnesses were associated with consumption of poultry, beef, po...

foodborne, food related illness and role of the healthcare professionals

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Assessment of foodborne illness outbreak response and investigation capacity in U.S. Environmental Health Food Safety Regulatory Programs.