A color enhanced transmission electron micrograph shows a listeria bacterium in tissue. This pathogen is the third-leading cause of death from foodborne illness in the United States. Infections are ...
An estimated 1,600 people in the U.S. contract a serious infection from Listeria bacteria in food each year and, of those individuals, about 260 people die, according to the Centers for Disease ...
If you recall, two weeks ago, I launched my column, “The Litigated Dish,” with the goal of addressing the Internet’s most frequently asked food safety questions. I kind of veered off topic last week ...
HAYWARD, CALIFORNIA / ACCESS Newswire / October 1, 2025 / Biolog, Inc., a trusted leader in microbial identification and testing, today announced its new Foodborne Pathogen Testing Service, out of ...
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 ...
Foodborne pathogens pose serious public health risks. Rapid, accurate technologies to detect a low number of target cells (1 cell/25–325 g sample) and microbial toxins are in demand in order to assess ...
July 16, 2010 (Atlanta, Georgia) — The incidence of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O157 and Shigella infections has decreased, but there have been limited declines in the incidence of ...