Gwen Hudson

As part of its overall mission to protect American agriculture, the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service works to keep the country’s livestock and poultry healthy in two ways –

April 12, 2019 Since the last update on April 9, 2019, 13 more ill people were added to this outbreak. As of April 12, 2019, 109 people infected with the outbreak strain of E. coli O103 have been reported from six states. CDC is reporting the 109 illnesses that the PulseNet laboratory network has confirmed

March 26, 2019 Fast Facts The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is cautioning pet owners not to feed their pets three lots of Darwin’s Natural Pet Products raw dog food after samples from these lots tested positive for Salmonella. The codes for each product are listed in the second group of numbers below the barcode

Food Additives and Contaminants, February 2008; 25(2): 134–145 Innovative sorption strategies for the detoxification of aflatoxins have been developed. NovaSil clay (NS) has been shown to prevent aflatoxicosis in a variety of animals when included in their diet. Results have shown that NS clay binds aflatoxins with high affinity and high capacity in the

J Sci Food Agric 2019; 99:13–24 Margareth Øverland,* Liv T Mydland and Anders Skrede Macroalgae or extracts have received increasing attention as safe alternatives to prophylactic and therapeutic agents in diets for farmed fish to prevent economic losses related to infectious dis-eases. All three groups of macroalgae, red, green, and brown, have been shown to

article as doi: 10.1002/jsfa.9581 Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture Shahrzad Sharifimehr, Nafiseh Soltanizadeh*, Sayed Amir Hossein Goli Department of Food Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, 8415683111, Iran

Posted February 15, 2019 at 3:00 PM EDT Since the last update on December 21, 2018, 63 ill people from 24 states, and the District of Columbia, have been added to this investigation. As of February 13, 2019, 279 people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Reading have been reported from 41 states and

Posted February 8, 2019 on CDC site – https://www.cdc.gov/brucellosis/exposure/drug-resistant-brucellosis-linked-raw-milk.html The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and state health officials are investigating potential exposures to Brucella strain RB51 (RB51) in 19 states, connected to consuming raw (unpasteurized) milk from Miller’s Biodiversity Farm in Quarryville, Pennsylvania. One case of RB51 infection (brucellosis) has been confirmed in New York, and

Elvira MaÈchler1,2*, Maslin Osathanunkul1,3,4, Florian Altermatt1,2 1 Eawag: Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Department of Aquatic Ecology, DuÈbendorf, Switzerland, 2 Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, ZuÈrich, Switzerland,

The tilapia lake virus (TiLV) is a newly emerging virus associated with significant mortalities in farmed tilapia. Since the first discovery of the virus in Israel in 2014, cases have been reported in Columbia, Ecuador, Egypt and Thailand. Now that screening tools are available and can be accessed by fish disease diagnostic/research labs, the number of reported