We develop a prioritization framework for foodborne risks that considers public health impact as well as three other factors (market impact, consumer risk acceptance and perception, and social sensitivity). Canadian case studies are presented for six pathogen-food combinations: Campylobacter spp. in chicken; Salmonella spp. in chicken and spinach; Escherichia coli O157 in spinach and beef; and ...

A marine Ascidian-associated fungus, Trichoderma harzianum, (NIO/BCC2000-51) was assessed for its in vitro antagonistic activity against ten fungal phytopathogens and three food-infesting fungi. Fractionation of the cell-free culture filtrate of T. harzianum (NIO/BCC2000-51) showed its ethyl acetate (EA) fraction to be significantly active against fungal phytopathogens; Macrophomina sp, Pyricul...

Identification and prioritization of effective food safety interventions require an understanding of the relationship between food and pathogen from farm to consumption. Critical to this cause is food attribution, the capacity to attribute cases of foodborne disease to the food vehicle or other source responsible for illness. A wide variety of food attribution approaches and data are used aroun...

Foodborne pathogen persisters are a subgroup of genetic susceptibility and growth arrest. They survive antimicrobial stress by stopping their growth, can regenerate into normal sensitive bacteria after the is removed. pathogens resisting unfavorable factors through mechanism exist for long time in many food-related environments. These surviving harmful to food safety human health. There ways re...

M. V. Ganduglia-Pirovano,1,2,3 J. Kudrnovský,4 and M. Scheffler1 1Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany 2Max Planck Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Außenstelle Stuttgart, Heisenbergstrasse 1, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany 3CAMP Department of Physics, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark 4Institute of Physics, Aca...

OBJECTIVE To analyze menu labeling perception and food choices/health behaviors in two Los Angeles public markets. Labels with food caloric content were displayed in the food court of one of these markets. MATERIALS AND METHODS Bivarate means analyses compared the surveyed population by market and by nativity status. The main predictors of menu-labeling influence were identified in the sample...

Lactobacillus animalis 381-IL-28 is an integral component of a multistrain commercial culture with food biopreservative and pathogen biocontrol functionality. A draft sequence of the L. animalis 381-IL-28 genome is described in this paper.

food borne viral infections are recognized increasingly as human illneses. hepatitis a virus (hav) is an important pathogen which has been responsible for water and many food – borne outbreeks especially milk . in this study for approaching to best diagnosis method of hav in milk by elisa technique, various dilutions of hav antigen (1 ml/l, 10-3 ml/l, 10-6 ml/l, 10-9 ml/l) were added to uht mil...

This paper examines the effects of family structure on family income and food consumption, using fixed-effects to control for unobservable characteristics of the family. The effects of divorce on the family income and family-level consumption of children born to two-parent households, and the effects of marriage on children born into singleparent households are both considered. In the year foll...