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 News Item (Source/Date Posted on Source)

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

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

Spray coater protects against contamination (Food Production Daily/ 7/27)

UK outlines salmonella reduction programme (Food Production Daily/ 7/27)

Foot and Mouth Disease Vaccine Developed by USDA ARS Scientists (Federation of Animal Science Societies/ 6/01)

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

AI vaccine hits ‘100 percent efficacy’ (MeatNews.com/ 5/22)

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

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)

India prepares for AI outbreak possibility (MeatNews.com/ 4/30)

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

WHO may set up bird flu vaccine stockpile for poor (Reuters Health/ 4/25)

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

Ozone & UV technologies event planned (MeatNews.com/ 4/19)

Help over food scares (MeatNews.com/ 4/19)

Food incidents guidance published (Food Standards Agency/ 4/18)

Food safety group takes 'pop' message to masses (International Food Safety Network/KSU/ 4/17)

U.S. OKs 1st bird flu vaccine for humans (CNN Health/ 4/17)

Students Get Out-of-Class Food Safety Lessons (U.C. Davis/ 4/16)

Rapid, one-step, ultra-sensitive detection of food poisoning bacteria and biothreats pdf file (American Chemical Society PressPac/ 4/11)

A new test to screen fish for 25 drug residues at the same time pdf file (American Chemical Society PressPac/ 4/11)

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

USDA allows Salmonella treatment (MeatNews.com/ 4/11)

Chinese company develops AI disinfectant (MeatNews.com/ 4/05)

Cooking up a solution for a culinary problem (EurekAlert!/ 3/31)

ARS develops steps to retain bioactives in food samples (Food Production Daily/ 3/30)

Vaccines key in H5N1 war (MeatNews.com/ 3/29)

Baxter says data promising on pandemic flu vaccine (Reuters Health/ 3/29)

Manure as Fuel: Poultry Litter-Fueled Furnace Will Reduce Energy Costs, Protect Watershed (Newswise/ 3/29)

Steam cleaning cuts salmonella in meat, says study (Food Production Daily/ 3/27)

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

Dipstick' test could reduce risk of food poisoning by rapidly detecting spoilage (EurekAlert!/ 3/25)

Asia to test human bird flu vaccine this year (Reuters Health/ 3/23)

Nigeria: 'Hybrid Rice Can't Cure Diarrhea' (allAfrica.com/ 3/20)

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

Bird flu experts back calls on vaccine access (Reuters Health/ 3/19)

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

Food Scientists: don't pooh-pooh this advice: it's simple: cook the food right and wash your hands (Food Safety Network / Kansas StateUniversity/ 3/17)

Talk to us early, FDA tells bird flu companies (Reuters Health/ 3/15)

Salmonella control in turkey chillers (MeatNews.com/ 3/15)

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

China to set up food safety system amid scares (Reuters Health/ 3/12)

NZFSA stresses need for food safety to university students (New Zealand Food Safety Authority 3/12)

FMD vaccination for Turkey (MeatNews.com /3/09)

Notice to Readers: Ground Water Awareness Week, March 11--17, 2007 (CDC/ MMWR/ 3/09)

Poultry plants testing food-safety technology (MeatNews / 3/08)

How a medical producer avoids E. coli (CNN Health / 3/08)

FDA urged to OK first bird-flu vaccine (CNN Health / 2/27)

UK farm minister rejects wider poultry import bans (Reuters Health / 2/26)

EU experts back bird flu vaccine from Novartis (Reuters Health / 2/23)

Zithromax effective for traveler's diarrhea (Reuters Health/ 2/13)

Flu shot might also offer some protection against H5N1 (EurekAlert!/ 2/13)

Kansas State study finds new vaccine effective against deadly viral disease affecting swine (EurekAlert/ 2/08)

Indonesia May Sell, Not Give, Bird Flu Virus to Scientists (New York Times/ 2/07)

Early treatment may thwart mad cow-type disease (Reuters Health/2/07)

Bacteriophage approved for hide washing (FoodProductionDaily.com / 1/4)

Botulism study could lead to new vaccines and treatments to counter bioterrorist attacks (Stanford University / 12/11)

New Hope For E. coli Treatment (Tufts University / 10/19)

Company receives award for bacteriophage technology (FoodProductionDaily.com / 9/5)

FDA Says Viruses Safe for Treating Meat (USNews.com / 8/18)

Bird flu study highlights need to vaccinate flocks effectively (Eurek Alert / 8/18)

Prevention of Rotavirus Gastroenteritis Among Infants and Children (CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report / 8/11)

Radiation-killed bacteria vaccine induces broad immune response in mice (Eurek Alert / 7/25)

New Non-Invasive Vaccine Strategy May Offer Protection Against Tetanus and Anthrax (American Society for Microbiology / 6/19)

Professor's Phage-Hunters Strike Pay Dirt (NewsWise.com / 6/8)

Report focuses on the role good microbes play in future medicine (Eurek Alert / 6/8)

Full year of treatment helps infants and children with toxoplasmosis (Eurek Alert / 5/15)

New treatment for food poisoning (University of Bristol / 5/11)

Vaccine combined with short-term postexposure antibiotics protects monkeys from inhalational anthrax (Eurek Alert / 5/1)

Phages Eyed as New Way to Control Salmonella (USDA ARS / 4/28)

Plant-based vaccine protects mice against toxin (Reuters Health / 4/17)

UNITED STATES: New University of Arkansas bacterial culture reduces poultry pathogen, but researcher wants to find even better cultures. (MeatNews.com / 4/14)

RNA Interference Knocks Down Prion Genes in Livestock (NewsWise.com / 3/22)

Novel Vaccine Approach Stimulates Protective Immunity Against Listeria (NewsWise.com / 3/20)

US panel endorses rotavirus vaccine for infants (Reuters Health / 2/22)

OmniLytics Obtains First-Ever EPA Registration For Bacteriophage Usage (Meat and Poultry Online News / 2/17)

New Research Network Aims to Protect Food Supply (NewsWise.com / 2/7)

Rotavirus vaccine will protect children against a major killer worldwide (Eurek Alert / 2/3)

GM aid for pandemic flu vaccine (BBC News / 2/2)

Ricin vaccine 'shown to be safe' (BBC News / 1/31)

Scientists develop more effective bird flu vaccine for flocks (FoodProductionDaily.com / 1/31)

Web model of influenza-host lifecycles will aid scientists in creating anti-viral drugs (Eurek Alert / 1/30)

Vaccine provides 100 percent protection against avian flu virus in animal study (Eurek Alert / 1/26)

UNITED STATES: Researchers report that microbial supplements reduce E. coli load in the feces of beef cattle up to 35 percent. (MeatNews.com / 1/9)

Rotavirus Drugs Deemed Safe and Effective (New York Times / 1/5)

New technique points to safer, more efficient vaccination (Eurek Alert / 12/29)

UNITED STATES: Initial laboratory testing results indicate total eradication of the avian influenza H9N2 virus strain, but clinical testing still needs to confirm effectiveness. (MeatNews.com / 12/22)

UCF, NIH study: Effective, safe anthrax vaccine can be grown in tobacco plants (Eurek Alert / 12/19)

FDA looks at infant rotavirus prevention (CNN.com / 12/14)

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

Develop broad spectrum defense against germ warfare: Biodefense leaps ahead of one vaccine for one germ approach (Eurek Alert / 12/9)

'Friendly' bacteria can ease stomach woes (LA Times / 12/5)

New antibody shows promise as cure for anthrax (Eurek Alert / 11/29)

Chicken vaccination can halt bird flu spread: study (Reuters Health / 11/29)

New Gene Identified for Antiviral Activity (American Society for Microbiology / 11/17)

China to Vaccinate All Its Poultry, With 5.2 Billion Flu Shots (New York Times / 11/16)

New protein discovery may have implications for treating deadly E. coli infection (Queen's University / 11/8)

Workers on daily probiotics less likely to take time off sick (Eurek Alert / 11/6)