The Commercial Appeal reports that Robert Tauxe, chief of the foodborne-disease unit at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke at last week’s Institute of Food Technologists’ annual convention regarding the state of pathogenic outbreaks.
“There’s been some real progress in the prevention of (food) pathogens,” Tauxe said. But he reported that disease
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Nearly 30 state, county and community fairs are scheduled before the end of September all around the country.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Westfair Foods Ltd. are conducting a voluntary recall of all varieties of ground beef including ground sirloin sold from the four stores listed below. The beef, supplied by XL Grinding, may be contaminated with 
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Scientists at Cornell University have developed a rapid, less costly and sensitive new technique for detecting group A streptococcus, the bacteria that cause scarlet fever. The technique can be applied to a wide variety of bacterial pathogens, including