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Fred Pritzker On Newsmakers
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Freshway Foods Lettuce E. coli Outbreak Underscores Need for Food Safety Reforms
8, May 2010
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention freely admits that outbreaks of E. coli O145 go unreported because few clinical laboratories test for the pathogen even though it is every bit as dangerous as its toxic cousin, E. coli O157:H7.
The failure to…
Danger Still Lurks in Packaged Salad Greens
5, February 2010
Foodborne illness outbreaks and recalls involving pre-packaged leafy greens have sickened thousands and killed scores of Americans during the past decade.
For example, just one incident, the 2006 California baby spinach outbreak, caused 205 confirmed illnesses and three deaths. In the face of…
Lettuce Salmonella: How the Bug Invades Leaves
1, October 2009
One of the confounding mysteries about lettuce Salmonella outbreaks and E. coli spinach outbreaks is how the microbes harbor inside the plants, too deep to be washed off the surface by consumers who are diligent about protecting themselves against potential food poisoning.
Now scientists in Israel…
Lettuce Salmonella Outbreak Under Investigation
14, September 2009
State and federal health investigators are trying to determine the source of a possible lettuce Salmonella outbreak that sickened at least 124 people across the country before the outbreak subsided late last month.
William Keene, senior epidemiologist at Public Health Division in…
