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Which viruses are most likely to end up in berries? The biggest concerns surround norovirus and hepatitis A, and the FDA’s new strategy specifically works to prevent both of those from ending up ...
But they also can come with a real risk of foodborne illnesses. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced a new strategy around berry safety.
Following a recall of raw ground beef due to possible E. coli contamination and summer Vibrio vulnificus deaths, a CNN expert shares how you can improve food safety practices.
Food safety (or food hygiene) is used as a scientific method/discipline describing handling, preparation, and storage of food in ways that prevent foodborne illness.The occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from the ingestion of a common food is known as a food-borne disease outbreak. [1]
Foodborne illness (also known as foodborne disease and food poisoning) [1] is any illness resulting from the contamination of food by pathogenic bacteria, viruses, or parasites, [2] as well as prions (the agents of mad cow disease), and toxins such as aflatoxins in peanuts, poisonous mushrooms, and various species of beans that have not been boiled for at least 10 minutes.
Food safety in the United States is necessary in order to prevent and properly report food-borne illnesses. [3] In 2011, a total of 9.4 million incidents of food-borne illness occurred in the United States. [4] When legislation to prevent food-borne illnesses do not exist, widespread food-borne outbreaks typically spark legislation. [citation ...
According to the CDC, it causes 2,500 outbreaks in the U.S. alone, accounting for 58% of foodborne illnesses in the nation. "Norovirus is highly infectious, and outbreaks have been linked to foods ...
Irradiation is used to reduce or eliminate pests and the risk of food-borne illnesses as well as prevent or slow spoilage and plant maturation or sprouting. Depending on the dose, some or all of the organisms, microorganisms, bacteria, and viruses present are destroyed, slowed, or rendered incapable of reproduction. When targeting bacteria ...