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Ain’t gonna wash it off: On-farm food safety for produce is where it starts
Tomatoes have been implicated in various microbial disease outbreaks and are considered a potential vehicle for foodborne pathogens. Traceback studies mostly implicate contamination during production...
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Ya ain’t gonna wash it off, so breed it off: Salmonella growth on – not in –...
Foodborne illness-causing enteric bacteria are able to colonize plant surfaces without causing infection. We lack an understanding of how epiphytic persistence of enteric bacteria occurs on plants,...
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We’re all hosts on a viral planet, plants too
I studied Verticillium in tomato plants in my aborted MSc degree. Journalism was more fun, and my hands were black from the printing press instead of green (yes, I am that old). Laurel Hamers of...
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First world problems: ‘People feel very strongly about their tomatoes’ Fruit...
Michael Pollan is an entertainer from a long line of American hucksters. He’s not a professor, he’s a decent writer of food porn. (Those with the least qualifications most actively seek the perceived...
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Going public: FDA not liable for $15 million in damages sought by tomato...
I remember. I was in Quebec City with a pregnant Amy when all this went down. Doing hour-long iradio interviews where midnight callers asked about aliens and Salmonella. Michael Booth of the National...
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Organic BS: Hucksters make a buck, plead guilty to fraud in Canada
Chapman and I toured southern Ontario tomato farms and processors 16 years ago, and shot youtube video, but youtube didn’t exist, so we didn’t know what to do with the video. Here it is. Trevor Wilhelm...
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Safe food, farm to fork
It’s been my lab’s moto for over 20 years. Nice to see the American Society for Microbiology catch up (nothing personal, Randy, just idle academic chirping, but at least you get paid). Fresh produce...
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We’re all hosts on a viral planet
About 1986, I was a MSc graduate student working on Verticillium (that’s a fungus) in tomatoes), published a couple of peer-revived papers, and then became the editor of the student newspaper (circ...
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71 now sick from Salmonella in Sweden linked to tomatoes
Outbreak News Today reports Swedish health authorities, or Folkhalsomyndigheten are reporting 17 additional Salmonella Typhimurium cases in the current outbreak, bringing the total outbreak cases to 71...
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Preharvest treatment improves tomato food safety
Technology Networks reports that when vegetable farmers harvest crops, they often rely on postharvest washing to reduce any foodborne pathogens, but a new University of Georgia study shows promise in...
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