Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The CDC recently made major cuts to a program that for decades has monitored foodborne illnesses through a ...

First used in the 1940s to monitor for polio, wastewater surveillance proved such a powerful disease monitoring tool that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated documents relating to the surveillance of and response to foodborne diseases. WHO said timely detection and effective response are essential to protect ...

Innovations in the lab and digital technologies such as artificial intelligence are transforming the detection, tracking, and response to food safety threats, according to scientists. Experts from ...

A federal-state partnership that monitors for foodborne illnesses quietly scaled back its operations nearly two months ago. As of July 1, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) ...

In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dramatically, but quietly, scaled back a food safety surveillance system, cutting active tracking from eight top foodborne infections down to ...

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Sundermann is an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Public Health. The recently ended Boar’s Head listeria outbreak, which has caused 57 infections and nine ...

The CDC’s Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, known as FoodNet, will trim its tracking of foodborne infections from eight pathogens to only two: Salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing ...

The researchers tested raw sewage samples collected twice a week from two treatment plants in central Pennsylvania for non-typhoidal Salmonella and characterized isolates using whole genome sequencing ...