Featured in this issue of Food Quality MagazineApril/May 2012
Food Safety from Space to Earth
Former NASA food coordinator Paul Lachance pioneered the HACCP system
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Outbreaks Spur Rapid STEC Tests
First implicated in a 1993 U.S. outbreak caused by undercooked ground beef, the Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) known as O157:H7 has become a familiar term associated with foodborne illness.
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Effect of Canada’s Food Inspector Cuts Debated
Plans to cut approximately 100 food inspector positions from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency over the next three years—a move projected to save the agency some $56 million—may not have as much impact on the nation’s food safety as has been claimed, according to one Canadian microbiologist and food safety expert.
Garlic Outperforms Antibiotics in Key Function, Study Finds
A compound commonly found in garlic kills Campylobacter jejuni, one of the most common causes of foodborne illness, better than antibiotics, according to researchers at Washington State University in Pullman.
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