Posts Tagged: listeria

Chicken salad recall put the spotlight on mysterious food pathogen, Listeria monocytogenes

Perishable food should be disposed of after it has been sitting out for one hour. Photo by Bruce A. Stockwell.

The news this past week that nearly three tons of Trader Joe’s prepared barbeque chicken salad were recalled due to possible contamination by...

Posted on Monday, August 6, 2012 at 10:39 AM

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Author: Janet Byron

Tags: food safety (23), foodborne illness (5), Listeria (2), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (1)

Foodborne illnesses and the 100K Genome Project

An ambitious effort to sequence the genomes of 100,000 infectious microorganisms and speed diagnosis of foodborne illnesses has been launched by the...

Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 9:20 AM

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Contributor: Ann King Filmer
Author: Pat Bailey

Tags: Agilent (1), bacteria (4), Bart Weimer (1), E. coli (3), food pathogens (1), food safety (23), foodborne illness (5), genome sequencing (1), Harris Lewin (1), listeria (2), microorganisms (1), Mike McMullen (1), Salmonella (3), virus (1)