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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 17, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSalmonella is a common foodborne pathogen, especially in meat and meat products. Lytic phages are promising alternatives to conventional methods for Salmonella biocontrol in food and food processing. In this study, a...
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From:Environmental Health Perspectives (Vol. 129, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedMeat products sold in U.S. stores are less likely to be contaminated with antimicrobial-resistant organisms if they were produced and processed according to Certified Organic standards set by the U.S. Department of...
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From:BMC Research Notes (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Arcobacter spp. have in recent years received increasing interest as potential emerging enteropathogens and zoonotic agents. They are associated with various animals including poultry and can be isolated...
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From:Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine (Issue 276) Peer-ReviewedSusan S. Sumner, a food scientist at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, Virginia), has found that misting fruits and vegetables with vinegar and three percent hydrogen peroxide (commonly...
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 60, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAlthough significant advances in food safety have been made in some countries, inadequate practices and inadequate surveillance systems persist in many developing countries. Personal observations indicate that the...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): J. Brian Harmon 1,2,*, Hannah K. Gray 1, Charles C. Young 1,2, Kellogg J. Schwab 1 Introduction Foodborne illness is a significant public health concern worldwide, with a global burden of disease...
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From:Veterinary World (Vol. 7, Issue 4)Aim: To assess the parasitic contamination of raw vegetables retailed at Mannuthy in Thrissur district of Kerala state, India. Materials and Methods: A total of 112 samples, viz. cabbage (17), mint (11), coriander...
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From:Journal of Asian Medical Student Association (Vol. 2, Issue S1) Peer-ReviewedThe growing number of diverse street side food sellers and their lack of understanding of food safety issues have made unhygienic street food a matter of great public health concern particularly in the developing...
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From:Weekly Epidemiological Record (Vol. 83, Issue 18)Between 5 March and 22 April 2008, the Ministry of Health of Viet Nam reported 2490 cases of severe acute watery diarrhoea, including 377 cases positive for Vibrio cholerae, the bacterium that causes cholera. The...
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From:Indian Journal of Medical Sciences (Vol. 59, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedByline: P. Koirala, S. Kumar, B. Yadav, K. Premarajan BACKGROUND: There are many contaminants like aflatoxin present in food products. Aflatoxin in comparison to many other contaminants is very toxic and also...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 82, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedTwo obstacles--the laboratory containment of wild-type poliovirus and uncertainties about the threat posed by vaccine-derived poliovirus (VDPV)--still stand in the pathway towards the final eradication of poliovirus....
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 65, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewed* Community mobilization resulting from environmental hazards is a nonlinear process. * Mediating factors other than the extent and nature of contamination are important determinants of mobilization. * The...
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From:Science (Vol. 289, Issue 5476) Peer-ReviewedFour years ago, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ignited a fire storm when it declared that tens of thousands of people were dying each year from breathing tiny particles of dust and soot--and issued tough...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 78, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedJapanese health authorities have launched an investigation into one of the country's worst outbreaks of food poisoning amid growing consumer concerns about the safety of dairy and other manufactured produce. On 10 July,...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 303, Issue 6817) Peer-ReviewedAbstract Objective--To determine the level and type of microbial contamination present on the white coats of doctors in order to assess the risk of transmission of pathogenic micro-organisms by this route in a...
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From:BioMed Research InternationalPeer-ReviewedExposure to environmental and occupational toxicants is responsible for adverse effects on human health. Chelation therapy is the only procedure able to remove toxic metals from human organs and tissue, aiming to treat...
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From:Canadian Journal of Microbiology (Vol. 61, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedYersinia enterocolitica is a food-borne pathogen that causes gastroenteritis with occasional postinfection sequels. This study was aimed to determinate the pathogenic potential, antimicrobial susceptibility, and genomic...
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From:Journal of Environmental Health (Vol. 69, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe quality and shelf-life of perishable foodstuffs can be reduced by high concentrations in the processing environment of bioaerosols consisting of spoilage microbiota. A lack of documented literature on the...
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From:Journal of Environmental and Public Health (Vol. 2017) Peer-ReviewedUse of Ecological Sanitation (EcoSan) sludge is becoming popular due to increasing price of organic fertilizers in Malawi; however, there is little evidence on the associated risks. Quantitative microbiological risk...
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From:Canadian Journal of Microbiology (Vol. 52, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedAbstract: Microbial contamination is a major concern for drinking water worldwide. Many monitoring protocols that use one or very few samples are inadequate and introduce a very large margin of error. An intensive...