Tossed salads

Prepared salads and public health.

In recent years the importance of prepared salads as potential vehicles of gastrointestinal infection has been highlighted by several large outbreaks both nationally and across international boundaries. Between 1992 and 2006, 2274 foodborne general outbreaks of infectious intestinal disease were reported in England and Wales, of which 4% were associated with the consumption of prepared salads. ...

Clostridium difficile in Ready-to-Eat Salads, Scotland

Of 40 ready-to-eat salads, 3 (7.5%) were positive for Clostridium difficile by PCR. Two isolates were PCR ribotype 017 (toxin A-, B+), and 1 was PCR ribotype 001. Isolates were susceptible to vancomycin and metronidazole but variably resistant to other antimicrobial drugs. Ready-to-eat salads may be potential sources for virulent C. difficile.

Enterobacteriaceae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa recovered from vegetable salads.

Klebsiella, Enterobacter, and Serratia were recovered frequently in high counts from vegetable salads. Pseudomonas aeruginosa, although isolated frequently, was in lower counts.

Winter harvest of danger: fishing on board a Maine trawler in the storm-tossed North Atlantic.

Interactive and Deterministic Data Cleaning A Tossed Stone Raises a Thousand Ripples

We present Falcon, an interactive, deterministic, and declarative data cleaning system, which uses SQL update queries as the language to repair data. Falcon does not rely on the existence of a set of pre-defined data quality rules. On the contrary, it encourages users to explore the data, identify possible problems, and make updates to fix them. Bootstrapped by one user update, Falcon guesses a...