Foodborne illness is a serious and preventable public health problem, affecting one in six Americans and costing an estimated $50 billion annually. As local health departments adopt new tools that monitor Twitter for tweets ...
Jun 7, 2018
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When folks get sick after a picnic, people often blame the potato salad. Or the chicken salad. Or whatever other side dish was made with mayonnaise. But that's usually not the culprit.
May 24, 2018
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Quick, efficient pathogen detection and fingerprinting is essential and often lifesaving when it comes to preventing foodborne illness. Now, University of Georgia food scientist Xiangyu Deng has created a system that can ...
Apr 19, 2018
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A single foodborne outbreak could cost a restaurant millions of dollars in lost revenue, fines, lawsuits, legal fees, insurance premium increases, inspection costs and staff retraining, a new study from researchers at the ...
Apr 16, 2018
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A computer system developed by Columbia University with Health Department epidemiologists detects foodborne illness and outbreaks in NYC restaurants based on keywords in Yelp reviews
Jan 10, 2018
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(HealthDay)—A stomach bug can quickly put a damper on your Christmas Day festivities.
Dec 26, 2017
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Food safety practices that Americans take for granted—washing hands with soap, refrigeration, and not cutting raw meat and vegetables on the same surface without disinfection—are not widely practiced in other places around ...
Dec 15, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Though foodborne illness can put a quick end to Thanksgiving festivities, that need not be the case, food safety experts say.
Nov 22, 2017
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Paid-sick-leave laws may contribute to a decline in foodborne illness outbreaks, and laws with stronger employee protections may provide greater public health benefits, according to a study led by a Penn State researcher.
Oct 20, 2017
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(HealthDay)—Every year, roughly 1 in 6 Americans gets sick from contaminated food. That includes more than 1.2 million illnesses due to the bacteria salmonella.
Aug 24, 2017
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