Food Safety News Thu 12/26/2019

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Food Safety News
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Email not displaying properly? View it in your browser. Food safety voices heard during 2019 By News Desk on Dec 26, 2019 12:05 am Editor’s note: Guest opinions columns and editorials or what we call “op-eds” are an important part of Food Safety News. Since we got our start more than a decade ago, we’ve published hundreds of such submissions. Many have been penned by the most influential people in food safety. We look back at a few... Continue Reading Researchers contend inexpensive method could change outbreak investigation approach By News Desk on Dec 26, 2019 12:03 am Researchers say they believe they have found a cheap method to identify bacteria in a few hours on a mobile-phone-sized device. The bacterial identification method, called ON-rep-seq, examines strain-specific fragments of the bacterial genome, allowing results that earlier required DNA sequencing of the whole bacterial genome. The method also returns results faster than approaches like... Continue Reading Raw beef liver ban had little impact on E. coli in Japan By News Desk on Dec 26, 2019 12:03 am A ban on serving raw beef liver in restaurants in Japan has not decreased the number of E. coli infections in the country, according to a study. Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) causes many symptoms from diarrhea to the potentially deadly hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Serving raw beef liver dishes at restaurants was banned beginning in... Continue Reading