PathogenDx’s new rapid single test detects 13 Salmonella serotypes in poultry that are a significant contributor to foodborne illness.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA’s APHIS) has announced 12 awards totaling more than $3.2 million in cooperative agreement funding to create antimicrobial resistance (AMR) dashboards. AMR is a crucial threat to food safety and global public health that is aggravated by the use of antimicrobials in food animal agriculture.

As part of an effort to reduce cases of salmonellosis attributable to poultry products, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) conducted a study with the Food Emergency Response Network (FERN) laboratories to gather data on not-ready-to-eat (NRTE) breaded stuffed chicken products purchased at retail stores.

Since early 2022, CDC and FDA have investigated an ongoing Salmonella outbreak linked to Italian-style meats. The outbreak has affected at least 36 people across 17 states.

The World Health Organization has designated antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as one of the top ten global challenges facing humanity. In this article, the emergence of AMR in major foodborne bacterial pathogens will be highlighted and its ramifications in relation to food safety will be discussed. 

A variety of actions, spanning from simply changing a nozzle to implementing AI technology, can contribute to making sanitizing procedures more sustainable. The authors dive into some of these actions and look at the effectiveness, implementation challenges, and consequences for the end products.

In this bonus episode of Food Safety Matters, we speak with two poultry science experts about what industry can do to reduce the presence of Salmonella in poultry products in light of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) recently proposed requirements that would consider Salmonella an adulterant in poultry.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service (USDA’s ARS) has launched the Salmonella Grand Challenge—a new, nationwide initiative that brings together a group of elite scientists from different specialties to fight salmonellosis. The scientists will integrate their research to learn more about Salmonella risks to meat and poultry products, which will then inform the development of monitoring tools for meat and poultry producers to prevent Salmonella contamination.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA’s FSIS) has released an updated Guideline for Controlling Salmonella in Swine Slaughter and Pork Processing Establishments.

Salmonella infection is one of the most commonly reported causes of foodborne illness, resulting in over 80 million cases of foodborne salmonellosis each year globally.