Salmonella contamination

Class II recalls are those in which the use of or exposure to a product found in violation of the law may cause a temporary health problem that is reversible, or in which the situation would not cause serious adverse health consequences. Examples of this type of recall would include uncertainty of the sterility of an injectable product, Salmonella contamination of various types of oral dosage forms, inadequate directions for use, and improper buffering of solution for injection [20]. 

Salmonella Contaminant Improper processing of food allows Salmonella from intestinal tract to survive the most common cause of gastroenteritis... 

Waldroup, A.L., Skinner, J.T., Hierholzer, R.E. and Waldroup, P.W. (1993) An evaluation of fructooligosaccharide in diets for broiler chickens and effects on Salmonellae contamination of carcasses. Poultry Science 72, 643-650. 

Melloul, A.A., Hassani, L. and Rafouk, L. (2001) Salmonella contamination of vegetables irrigated with untreated wastewater. World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology 1 7, 207-209. 

Large quantities of feed are produced, transported, and stored daily for use in industry and even minor Salmonella contamination may affect many... 

Wells, J.M. and Bntterfield, J.E. 1997. Salmonella contamination associated with bacterial soft rot of fresh fmits and vegetables in the marketplace. Plant Disease 81 867-872. 

Recently, 275 tons of Lebanon bologna were recalled by a Pennsylvania processor due to possible salmonella contamination (Anonymous, 1995b). This emphasizes the importance of good manufacturing practices and careful control of microbial contamination in processing of IM meat products. 

MR spectroscopy could be used for the detection of beef contamination from harmful pathogens and the protection of consumer safety. Amamcharla et al. in 2010 investigated the potential of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FfiK) to discriminate the Salmonella contaminated packed beef. Principal component analysis was performed on the entire spectrum (4000-500 cm i). Authors obtained encouraging classification results with different techniques and confirmed that MR could be used for non-destructive discrimination of Salmonella contaminated packed beef samples from imcontaminated ones. 

Kovarik and Lojda (2000) report that formic acid at 0.5% in the diet can be successfully used on farms to reduce salmonella contamination in feed, excretion of Salmonella spp. and re-infection of chicken populations. Byrd et al. (2001) demonstrated that 0.5% of formic acid added to drinking water pre-slaughter could also control salmonella populations in broilers. 

April 1985, Melrose Park, IL. Salmonella contamination of 1-gallon cartons of 2% milk infected more than 6,000 people in five states. At least 34 lawsuits resulted. The HiUfarm Dairy that processed the nulk closed its doors. The cause may have involved the design and operation of the processing equipment. Raw, contaminated milk somehow got mixed in with... 

Members of the Salmonella enterica enterica subspecies are the cause of most human salmonellosis and in the USA, most cases are food-borne. S. enterica enterica consists of more than 2500 different O and H cell surface antigen combinations, or serovars (FDA 2012). S. enterica serovar Typhimurium and S. enterica serovar Heidelberg are among the top ten serovars implicated in food-borne Salmonella infections (CDC 2014). Although these are distinct serovars, their genomes are 99% similar (data not shown). Species- and subspecies-level assays are generally adequate for clinical diagnostics. However, localization of the source of a food-borne Salmonella contamination requires serovar or strain-level speeificity. 

Tracing back to the source of a Salmonella contamination requires a minimum of serovar-level differentiation. Serovar differentiation is not currently possible on commercially available MALDI-based clinical bacterial typing platforms. Salmo-... 

FDA was also very slow in responding to the problem of Salmonella-contaminated eggs. In 1999, FDA announced an Egg Safety Action Plan, and it spent the next five years drafting proposed regulations. After FDA completed the final rule in July 2008, OIRA held it up for the remainder of the Bush Administration. One consequence of the unwarranted delay was a massive Salmonella outbreak in August 2010 that sickened more than 1,200 people and resulted in a recall of more than one-half billion eggs. ... 

Pathogens in Processed Foods. Between July 2009 and March 2010, FDA oversaw recalls of 300,000 cases of Nestle cookie dough that had sickened more than 65 people, 1.2 million pounds of ready to eat sausage containing Salmonella-contaminated black pepper that sickened more that 225 people, and all existing supplies of processed foods containing a Salmonella-contaminated flavor enhancer. ... 

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