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Just before the Winter Olympic Games are set to begin in PyeongChang, South Korea, a norovirus outbreak has struck the area, with 86 cases confirmed so far. The Korean Centre for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the number on Wednesday, after previously reporting 32 cases on Tuesday. “The peak season for norovirus is January and […] Share this:February 7th, 2018 | Category: Food industry, Life sciences | Tags: 2018 Winter Olympics, food poisoning winter olympics, Food safety, foodborne illness, norovirus, norovirus in PyeongChang, Norovirus outbreak, norovirus Winter Olympics, Odaesan Youth Centre | Comments are closed Illustration by Alissa Eckert, courtesy the CDC Quick, imagine your ideal date. Is it followed by nausea and vomiting? What about cramps, a fever or diarrhea? We’re going to guess, “no.” Unfortunately, sometimes dinner leads to foodborne illness, particularly from the prolific norovirus, which causes around 50% of all food poisoning cases. The virus […] Share this:July 7th, 2017 | Category: Food industry, Life sciences | Tags: Food Contamination, food poisoning, foodborne illness, hand washing, illness, norovirus, sickness | Comments are closed Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest food safety, animal safety, and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. Animal Science Hair spacing keeps honeybees clean during pollination – Science Daily With honeybee colony health wavering and researchers trying to find technological ways of pollinating plants in the future, a new Georgia […] Share this:March 29th, 2017 | Category: Agriculture, Animal safety, Food industry, Life sciences, Offbeat, Toxicology | Tags: agriculture, animal science, Canada, Dairy industry, FDA, Food safety, global warming, honeybees, life sciences, Listeria outbreak, norovirus, oysters, pollination, toxicology, weaning pigs | Comments are closed Valentine’s Day is a celebration of love that for many involves cooking a special meal or venturing out for a romantic dinner. Treating your loved one to oysters, for example, has long been associated with romance and they are often found on restaurant menus this time of year. However, before you indulge, it’s important to […] Share this:February 14th, 2017 | Category: Food industry | Tags: E. coli, foodborne illness, norovirus, oyster cooking temperature, oyster food safety, raw oysters, Valentine's Day, Vibrio vulnificus, Vibrio vulnificus in oysters, vibriosis | Comments are closed Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest animal science, food safety, and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. Food Safety Ten Countries Impacted by Salmonella Tainted Eggs from Poland – Food Safety Magazine More than 360 people in 10 countries have been affected by a Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak linked to an […] Share this:December 12th, 2016 | Category: Animal safety, Food industry | Tags: agriculture news, animal science, Corn farmers, Food safety, food safety treatment, Genetic selection for cow livability, Horses at different life stages, Monday links, norovirus, norovirus on blueberries, precision agriculture, Salmonella Enteritidis, Salmonella outbreak, Salmonella Tainted Eggs | Comments are closed For more than 20 years, September has been recognized as National Food Safety Education Month. The theme for 2016 is Norovirus, which is highlighted in the below infographic. For more information on National Food Safety Education Month and Norovirus, click here. Share this:September 15th, 2016 | Category: Food industry | Tags: contaminated surfaces, food related illness, Food safety, fresh fruit, handwashing, leafy greens, National Food Safety Education Month, norovirus, Norovirus infographic, outbreaks of norovirus, preventing norovirus infection, shellfish | Comments are closed For the first time researchers have grown a human norovirus in a cell culture dish, taking a step toward developing medications to treat the stomach bug that strikes millions of people every year in schools, hotels, and cruise ships. Noroviruses are intestinal viruses that cause violent vomiting and diarrhea. In the U.S. alone, human noroviruses […] Share this:May 24th, 2016 | Category: Food industry | Tags: B cells, cell culture dish, commensal bacteria, gut flora, human norovirus infect B cells, human noroviruses, norovirus, norovirus research, norovirus vaccine, ntiviral drug development, pathogens, target intestinal epithelial cells, viral infection | Comments are closed Don’t have time to scour the internet for the latest animal safety, food safety, and agriculture news? Relax, we’ve got it covered. Food Safety USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) Announces Standardized Approach to Residues without Established Public Health Tolerances – USDA FSIS announced today that it is standardizing the approach it will take […] Share this:January 4th, 2016 | Category: Agriculture, Animal safety, Food industry | Tags: animal science, cauliflower shortage, chestnuts, Equine Disease Report, Food safety, FSIS, gene variants, Genetically Pure Bison, Maine woods, Monday links, norovirus, residues, USDA | Comments are closed Thought to be transfer through contaminated surfaces, fecal matter, vomit, or through contaminated food, Norovirus is one of the most common causes of viral gastroenteritis in humans. However, new research is showing that the bacteria that causes this virus really only needs air to transfer from one person to another. As reported by Gastroenterology and […] Share this:August 5th, 2015 | Category: Food industry | Tags: airborne transmission of Noroviruses, cruise ships, gastroenteritis outbreaks, mobile air filtration units, norovirus, Norovirus propagation, Norovirus through air, respiratory protection, viral gastroenteritis | Comments are closed Sometimes referred to as the winter vomiting bug, norovirus, is the most common stomach bug in the United Kingdom (UK) infecting between 600,000 and one million people every year. The virus gets its name from where it was first identified — in Norwalk, Ohio, in 1972. Since then, several strains of the virus have been […] Share this:January 28th, 2015 | Category: Food industry | Tags: food industry, food service, norovirus, seafood industry | Comments are closed |
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