Foodborne Illness Data from Washington State Mr. Dave Gifford, Washington Department of Health Occurrence and Detection of Campylobacter in Food Products. A comparison of self-reported and observed food safety behaviors. For several years we have had a pathogens du jour session addressing food safety issues that have been in the news recently.
Water is an essential ingredient for many human activities, notably including food production.
Yet water can also be a means of introducing pathogens into food products. Washington State University Bovine spongiform encephalopathy emerged in Britain and has recently become more widespread on the European continent. Dr. Clive Gay, Washington State University Antimicrobial resistance of food borne pathogens. For 4 decades or more we been aware of the antimicrobial resistance problem, but the simple, traditional theories of local genetic selection on individual farms via antimicrobial use do not seem to fully account for resistance patterns of food borne bacterial pathogens observed recently. We plan to offer some perspectives on that process.