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 News Item (Source/Date Posted on Source)

Medium distinguishes between Campylobacter species (Food Production Daily/ 10/17)

Florida Food Safety 101: How to produce safer veggies (University of Florida/IFAS/ 10/11)

A Tiny Pinch from a 'Z-Ring' Helps Bacteria Cells Divide (Johns Hopkins University/ 10/11)

Nanotech biosensor developed for multipathogen detection (Food Production Daily/ 10/08)

Oxoids culture method to counter Salmonella faster (Food Production Daily/ 10/05)

New test spots the toxins, researchers claim (Food Production Daily/ 10/02)

Scientists Sequence Genome of Intestinal Parasite that Afflicts Hikers and Kids in Daycare (National Institutes of Health/ 9/27)

E. coli vaccine used commercially for first time (MeatPoultry.com/ 9/25)

USDA Awards More Than $14 Million in Food Safety Grants (CSREES/USDA/ 9/25)

Quick test for bird flu devised (BBC News/ 9/23)

River Cam bugs to beat infection (BBC News/ 9/21)

Carbon nanotubes could be new pathogen weapon (Food Production Daily/ 8/31)

Guide details the science of keeping meat safe (Food Production Daily/ 8/30)

Microbiological analysis advice for meat, eggs (Food Production Daily/ 8/22)

USDA AWARDS $5.5 MILLION FOR RISK AND PREVENTION RESEARCH OF E. COLI O157:H7 IN FRESH PRODUCE (USDA/CSREES/ 8/21)

Plants provide potent antimicrobial extracts (Food Production Daily/ 8/21)

Oxygen restriction feeds Listeria bacteria (Food Production Daily/ 7/05)

New 'superbug' strain spreading in meat, warns study (Food Production Daily/ 6/25)

Food safety begins as vegetables grow (EurekAlert!/ 6/11)

New study finds genetically engineered crops could play a role in sustainable agriculture (EurekAlert!/ 6/07)

Scientists developing bioactive paper for food safety (Food Production Daily/ 6/06)

Rutgers: GM/GMO/Biotech crop containment strategy (EurekAlert!/ 6/06)

Mutant parasites, unable to infect hosts, highlight virulence genes (University of Wisconsin-Madison/ 5/30)

Mad Cow: News, Information and Resources (UC Davis/ 5/30)

How E. coli evolves to adapt to changing acidity (EurekAlert!/ 5/29)

Bird flu survivors offer clue for vaccine (Chicago Tribune/ 5/29)

Scientists find bird flu antibody (BBC News/ 5/29)

"Beach Sand and Sediments are Temporal Sinks and Sources of Escherichia coli in Lake Superior" (ACS PressPac/ Environmental Science & Technology/pdf / 5/28)

System improving life, profits in chicken houses (Georgia Faces/UGA/ 5/24)

Albertson’s LLC Introduces PakSense Temperature Monitoring Labels On Produce, Fresh Meat and Seafood Shipments (Meat and Poultry Online/ 5/24)

Research set on Campy in poultry (MeatNews.com/ 5/22)

Equipping E. coli with a "chemo-navigation" system (Journal of the American Chemical Society/Press Pac/pdf / 5/21)

Probiotics Help Produce Safer, Healthier Chickens, Researchers Discover (The Poultry Site/ 5/21)

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Detected in Water Near Swine CAFO (Environmental Health News/ 5/18)

A new portable biosensor detects traces of contaminants in food more quickly and cheaply (EurekAlert!/ 5/17)

Insignia -- A new way to identify viruses and bacteria (EurekAlert!/ 5/17)

Simple Equations Track Listeria Trails (EurekAlert!/Brown University/ 5/15)

Go-ahead given for GM trial site (BBC News/ 5/14)

New Test May Allow for Rapid Detection of Salmonella in Meat (American Society for Microbiology/Applied and Environmental Microbiology, May 2007)

Toxoplasmosis infection trick revealed by scientists (EurekAlert!/ 5/10)

No More "Foul "Air From This Chicken Coop (USDA/ ARS/ 5/10)

Scientists Identify Prion’s Infectious Secret (Newswise/ 5/09)

UN researchers examine chlorine use in food manufacturing (Food Production Daily/ 5/02)

Artificial 'snot' improves sensor smell say researchers (Food Production Daily/ 5/04)

Vaccine Prevents Prion Disease in Mice (Newswise/ 5/03)

Scientists Look to Vaccines in the War on E. Coli (The New York Times/ 5/01)

New Method Developed on University Campus Quickly Detects Tainted Pet Food (Newswise/ 4/30)

Oral Vaccine Containing Salmonella May Protect Against Aerosolized Anthrax (American Society for Microbiology/ 4/27)

Fungus Responsible for Africa's Deadly Maize Identified (USDA/ARS/ 4/26)

Packaging PFOAs found in newborns (Food Production Daily/ 4/26)

Polyethylene film improves contaminant detection (Food Production Daily/ 4/26)

Research examines improved safety for citrus supply (Food Production Daily/ 4/25)

Study shows food preparation may play a bigger role in chronic disease than was previously thought (EurekAlert!/ 4/24)

DSM unveils novel antibiotics test for milk (Food Production Daily/ 4/24)

Filtering Out the Bad Stuff (ACS PressPac/Chemical and Engineering News/ 4/23)

Overwhelming Scientific Evidence Confirms Aspartame Safety (Newswise/ 4/23)

Study into Salmonella in pigs (MeatNews.com/ 4/23)

High Technology To Help Ensure the Authenticity of Organic Produce (American Chemical Society/ 4/23)

Cheaper, potentially better disease treatments expected from faster approach to developing therapeutic antibodies (EurekAlert!/The University of Texas/ 4/18)

Meat Scientist Wins Top National Award (Meat and Poultry Online/ 4/18)

Argentine cow clones to produce insulin in milk (Reuters Health/ 4/18)

Testing tools help keep beverages pathogen-free (Food Production Daily/ 4/18)

Researchers from the UGR use a bacterium to obtain biopreservatives from food (EurekAlert!/University of Granada/ 4/17)

What's in the water? Estrogenic activity documented in fish caught in Pittsburgh's rivers. (EurekAlert!/University of Pittsburgh/ 4/17)

Researchers develop technique for bacteria crowd control (EurekAlert!/Argonne National Laboratory/ 4/16)

"Bird Flu” Genome Study Shows New Strains, Western Spread (Newswise/ University of Maryland/ 4/16)

Project to develop international testing standards (Food Production Daily/ 4/13)

Fresh Express Funds Nine Innovative Research Projects Totaling $2 million to study E. coli O157:H7 in lettuce and leafy greens (Chiquita.com / 4/12)

Physicists Unite To Develop Anthrax Detection Method (Newswise/Texas A&M University/ 4/12)

Grant will help fund Campylobacter research (New Zealand Food Safety Authority/ 4/11)

Ethyl Carbamate in food, drink as dangerous as diesel (Food Production Daily/ 4/10)

U.S. funding AI research (MeatNews.com/ 4/10)

Parasite brainwashes mice with a suicidal love for cats (Boston Globe/ 4/09)

Drug combinations may be better than sum of their parts (Boston Globe/ 4/09)

Arsenic in chicken feed may pose health risks to humans, C&EN reports (EurekAlert!/ 4/09)

Major Funding Commitment for Food Safety Research to be Announced (UC Davis/ 4/09)

Communications/Newsletter Spring 2007 (Food Research Institute/University ofWisconsin–Madison /pdf/ 4/05)

Sandia researchers take new approach to studying how cells respond to pathogens (EurekAlert!/ Sandia National Laboratories/ 4/03)

UC Davis Wins New National Center for Avian Flu Research (UCDavis/ 4/03)

Danish researchers solve virus puzzle (EurekAlert!/ 3/30)

Humidity during heat processing reduces salmonella (Food Production Daily/ 3/29)

Researchers develop new nut allergen test (Food Production Daily/ 3/28)

Doctors test double Tamiflu dose to cut H5N1 deaths (Reuters Health/ 3/28)

Scientists Explore Ways to Lure Viruses to Their Death (USA Today/ 3/27)

Scientists Hope Vigilance Stymies Avian Flu Mutations (The New York Times/ 3/27)

The Claim: You Can Disinfect a Kitchen Sponge in the Microwave (The New York Times/ 3/27)

Bacterial response to oxidation studied as toxin barometer (Virginia Tech/ 3/27)

£18M for new European research initiative in Systems Biology (UK/BBSRC/ 3/26)

Study into BSE tests (MeatNews.com/ 3/26)

UBC researchers find new superbug weapon for near-empty antibiotics arsenal

Pacific Rim Bioinformatics Collaboration on Avian Flu (Newswise/ 3/22)

How parasites keep the gene pool healthy (U.K./ BBSRC/ 3/22)

Fiber-optic light paves way for more accurate inspection (Food Production Daily/ 3/21)

Researchers Find Best Way to Detect Airborne Pathogens (Newswise/Ohio State University/ 3/21)

Probiotics may protect against food poisoning (Food Production Daily/ 3/20)

Antibiotic Resistance in Plague (Newswise/The Institute for Genomic Research/ 3/20)

Protein Found in Chickens May Help Protect Against Food-Borne Pathogens (Journals of the American Society for Microbiology / 3/19)

STUDY: PRIONS LIKELY MORE MOBILE IN ALKALINE SOILS (University of Wisconsin-Madison/ 3/19)

Consultation on proposals for the development of a national network for the delivery of food, water and environmental microbiology services (U.K./ Health Protection Agency/ 3/16)

Trojan horse strategy defeats drug-resistant bacteria (EurekAlert! /3/16)

Luna Innovations Developing Controls For Bacteria In Food (Meat and Poultry Online/ 3/15)

Three new Community Reference Laboratories will ensure reliable testing of food and animal feed (EUROPA / 3/15)

Infection Detectives Use Disease ‘Fingerprints’ to Track Common Infections in Children (newswise/ 3/13)

Infection Detectives Use Disease ‘Fingerprints’ to Track Common Infections in Children (newswise/ 3/13)

Bacterial Walls Come Tumbling Down (Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ 3/09)

Surprising antibiotic-resistant bacteria study results (MeatNews / 3/08)

US mulls backing 'medicine rice' (BBC News/ 3/06)

Research Leads To Advanced Water Filters for Safe Drinking Water in India (newswise / 3/06)

Experts urge big effort to make pandemic vaccines (Reuters Health/ 3/05)

Scientists to exhume diplomat's corpse for bird flu clues (Reuters Health/ 3/05)

Tracking diseases across the world (BBC News/ 3/03)

Vanillin studied as shelf-life extender (Food Production Daily/ 3/01)

Scientists Define Universal Pathogen Gene Language (USDA/CSREES/ 3/02)

Swimming 'to the left' gets bacteria upstream, and may promote infection (EurekAlert!/ 2/26)

SseL, a Salmonella deubiquitinase required for macrophage killing and virulence (U.K., Institute of Food Research / 2/26)

Discovery of chemical profiles for infectious diarrhoea (U.K.,University of Bristol /2/26)

When Germs Talk, Maybe Humans Can Answer (The New York Times /2/25)

Denmark food research to focus on emerging technologies (Food Production Daily/ 2/23)

Leading cause of US food-borne illness makes its own pathway through cells (Eurek Alert / 1/11)

Going Whole Hog: BAC Map Expedites Swine Genome Sequence (USDA ARS / 1/4)

Relative abundance of common microbes living in the gut may contribute to obesity (Washington University in St. Louis / 12/20)

Treatments for urinary infections leave bacteria bald, happy and vulnerable (Washington University in St. Louis / 12/14)

One gene 90 percent responsible for making common parasite dangerous (Washington University / 12/12)

Unraveling the Listeria Genome (USDA-ARS / 10/24)

Genetic repair mechanism clears the way for sealing DNA breaks (Washington University / 10/18)

An infectious agent of deception, exposed through proteomics (Eurek Alert / 9/29)

Scientists Say They’ve Found a Code Beyond Genetics in DNA (New York Times / 7/25)

Brittle prions are more infectious (Eurek Alert / 6/28)

New Finding About E coli Could Block Infections, Lead to Better Treatments (NewsWise.com / 6/26)

How hospital bug can evade attack (BBC News / 6/25)

Basic work on E. coli identifies two new keys to regulation of bacterial gene expression (Univ. Wisconsin / 6/16)

Success comes at a cost, even for phages (Eurek Alert / 6/12)

Bacteria have their own immune system protecting against outside DNA (Eurek Alert / 6/8)

Discovery of How Bacteria Sense Their Environments (NewsWise.com / 6/2)

Sequencing Reveals Genetics of Trillions of Bacteria in Human Gut (University of Maryland / 5/26)

DNA: Bacteria's survival ration (Eurek Alert / 5/26)

'Gut bugs' studied as a cause of obesity (Boston Globe / 5/22)

Test for Dioxin Sensitivity in Wildlife Could Result from New Study (NewsWise.com / 5/18)

Researchers Uncover Burrowing Secrets of Ulcer Bacteria (NewsWise.com / 5/17)

New study reveals structure of E. coli multidrug transporter protein (Eurek Alert / 5/4)

Researchers Design Antimicrobial, Technique to Watch It (NewsWise.com / 4/21)

Salmonella bacteria use RNA to assess and adjust magnesium levels (Eurek Alert / 4/6)

Scientists Learn More about How Viruses Reproduce, Spread (NewsWise.com / 4/6)

Animals can change genes quickly to keep up with viral ingenuity (Eurek Alert / 3/20)

Learning to love bacteria: Stanford scientist highlights bugs' benefits (Eurek Alert / 2/23)

Flesh-Eating Bacteria Escape Body's Safety Net (NewsWise.com / 2/20)

Study suggests that publicly available genome data may contain small but significant errors (Eurek Alert / 2/16)

Study suggests 'noise' in gene expression could aid bacterial pathogenicity (Eurek Alert / 2/15)

Scientists seek to unwrap the sweet mystery of the sugar coat on bacteria (Eurek Alert / 2/13)

Gut protein found to protect against infection and intestinal breakdown (UT Southwestern Medical Center / 2/6)

WOWing the crowds (Eurek Alert / 2/3)

Evolution mystery: Spider venom and bacteria share same toxin (Eurek Alert / 2/1)

Cracking the genetic code for control of gene expression (Eurek Alert / 1/12)

MBL leads effort to update E. coli genome (Eurek Alert / 1/9)

Heart burn medication a risk factor for community-acquired C. difficile (Eurek Alert / 12/20)

Switching to new anti-bacterial targets: Riboswitches (Eurek Alert / 12/16)

HOW E. COLI BACTERIUM GENERATES SIMPLICITY FROM COMPLEXITY (University of California, San Diego / 12/15)

McGill researchers crack genetic code of Quebec C. difficile (McGill University / 12/14)

TRAF3 Protein Is a Key Part of the Early Immune Response to Viruses (NewsWise.com / 12/13)

Dancing bacteria? UW Engineers explore microbial choreography (University of Wisconsin / 12/7)

Setting the standard for computer models of life (Eurek Alert / 12/6)

Infectious microbes may adapt faster than believed (Simon Frasier University / 12/2)