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WHO – New Food Safety Platform – FOSCOLLAB

Posted on February 28, 2013 by | Leave a comment

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An innovative tool for food safety

FOSCOLLAB is a new WHO platform for food safety professionals.

FOSCOLLAB enables users to:

  • Access food safety data and information quickly
  • Maximize the utility of already existing sources and minimize duplication of efforts
  • Integrate data and information coming from animal/agriculture, food and human health areas to improve global public health
  • Promote better generation of data
  • Strengthen the underlying sources by promoting awareness and increased utilization

By integrating multiple sources of reliable data, FOSCOLLAB helps overcome the challenges of accessing these key sources in a timely manner. It allows for better risk assessment and decision-making by food safety professionals and authorities.

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Posted in Bacteria, Food Hygiene, Food Illness, Food Inspections, Food Micro Blog, Food Microbiology, Food Poisoning, Food Safety, Food Safety Alert, Food Technology, Food Testing, Foodborne Illness, Methods, Microbiology, outbreak, Pathogen, Recall, Research

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Research – Mobile Phones and Bugs

Posted on November 15, 2012 by | 1 comment

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Our generation uses mobile phones and smartphones for work, college, making phone calls, reminders, sending messages, emails, music, photographs, games and the internet. Over 80% of the world citizens are in a possession of mobile phones.

With how attached people have become to their mobile phones or smartphones, it’s not a surprise that what we touch ends up on the screen. It’s what exactly ends up there that’s the real shocker.

Researchers from UW-Milwaukee’s Microbiology department tested heavily used mobile phones.

The tests found traces of E. coli and other coliforms. Coliforms are a bacteria indicating fecal contamination. They found between about 2,700 and 4,200 units of coliform bacteria on 8 phones.

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Posted in Bacteria, Coliforms, E.coli, Hygiene, Research

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