Salmonella in the Caribbean – new computer-based case study from CDC

Today’s MMWR announces the release of “Salmonella in the Caribbean,” a new computer-based case study in the Foodborne Disease Outbreak Investigation Case Study Series. These studies can be downloaded at no cost from the CDC Epidemiologic Case Studies website, shown (and linked) below:

Information on continuing education credits for the case studies is available here.

Massachusetts “Foodborne Illness Investigations and Control Reference Manual”

“Great Teachers – The Modern World of Foodborne Disease”: NIH videocast tomorrow (March 12)

National Institutes of Health (NIH) videocast 

Wednesday, March 12
12 noon – 1 p.m.   (Eastern)

Contemporary Clinical Medicine: Great Teachers
The Modern World of Foodborne Disease
Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Professor, School of Public Health
Director, Center for Infectious Diseases Research and Policy
University of Minnesota
Lecture will be videocast, http://videocast.nih.gov/
CME credit requires live or live webcast viewing.  To obtain a CME evaluation form for remote reviewing, please contact Sheila Stitt at 301-496-9425 or stitts@mail.cc.nih.gov.

For more information:  

The full listing of upcoming events at NIH videocasting.
More information on the speaker, Dr. Michael T. Osterholm.
NIH videocast archived events (over 3800 events are available and searchable)

Food safety at the Center for Science in the Public Interest

The Center for Science in the Public Interest maintains a food safety website with news, outbreak and recall information, and more.

The site includes an “Outbreak Alert! database” with information on over 5,000 outbreaks from 1990 to 2005 in which both the food and pathogen have been identified. The database is searchable by food, pathogen, or state.

ERIC – Enteropathogen Resource Integration Center

ERIC – Enteropathogen Resource Integration Center – “is one of eight Bioinformatics Resource Centers (BRC) for Biodefense and Emerging/Re-Emerging Infectious Diseases. Funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), ERIC serves as an information resource for five members of the bacterial family Enterobacteriaceae.” (diarrheagenic E. coli, Shigella, Salmonella, Yersinia entercolitica, and Y. pestis)

Food Safety links

Food Safety Links on the Internet 

http://www.ecoliblog.com/articles/e-coli-outbreaks/ Legal blog on E coli outbreaks

http://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu International Food Safety Network blog

http://www.foodproductiondaily-usa.com/news/quality.asp Food production quality & safety news

http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/  Food & beverage production news

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/news/ Iowa State food safety news

http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/rss/  RSS Feeds and Video Podcasts

http://www.howl911.com/  Howl 911’s Pet Food Portal

http://www.fao.org/  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 

http://www.codexalimentarius.net/web/index_en.jsp Codex Alimentarius (FAO/WHO standards)
http://www.jifsan.umd.edu/  Joint institute for Food Safety and Nutrition

http://topics.cnn.com/topics/food_safety CNN Food Safety news

http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/news/ng.asp?n=64991-canada-food-safety-inspection  article on Canada’s food safety

http://www.fda.gov/cvm/MenuFoodRecallFAQ.htm FDA Pet Food Recall FAQ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_pet_food_recalls Wikipedia on 2007 Pet Food Recalls

http://cahfs.ucdavis.edu/  California Animal Health Food Safety Laboratory System (CAHFS)
 
http://blogs.consumerreports.org/safety/2007/06/fda-warning-on-.html FDA – Chinese fish

http://www.michigan.gov/mda/0,1607,7-125-1566_2404—,00.html Michigan food safety site

http://www.naccho.org/topics/environmental/foodsafety.cfm NACCHO Food Safety program

http://www.badbugblog.com/ EHA Group blog on infectious disease, epidemiology & pathogens

http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~news/whatsnew.html Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition news

http://www.foodrisk.org/ food safety risk from Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=2400:1000 ProMED-mail outbreak reports

http://agfoodsafety.org/index.htm American Council for Food Safety & Quality

http://www.foodhaccp.com/online.html Food safety online videos and slides 

Related Articles 

Jay MT, Cooley M, Carychao D, Wiscomb GW, Sweitzer RA, Crawford-Miksza L, et al. Escherichia coli O157:H7 in feral swine near spinach fields and cattle, central California coast. Emerg Infect Dis [serial on the Internet]. 2007 Dec [date cited]. Available from http://www.cdc.gov/EID/content/13/12/1908.htm 

Cooley M, Carychao D, Crawford-Miksza L, Jay MT, Myers C, et al. (2007) Incidence and Tracking of Escherichia coli O157:H7 in a Major Produce Production Region in California. PLoS ONE 2(11):e1159.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0001159 
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0001159