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Stealth ingredient; E. coli threat prompts EU sprouted seeds measures
EU Member States have endorsed strict hygiene measures for readytoeat sprouted seeds to prevent incidents such as the deadly E. coli O104 outbreak in Germany and France last year. But will these...
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Horizontal gene transfer in E. coli O104
Escherichia coli O104 is an emergent disease-causing bacterium various strains of which are becoming increasingly well known and troublesome. The pathogen causes bloody diarrhea as well as and...
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E. coli O104 in sprouts, 2011: Natural, accidental or deliberate
In 2011, Germany was hit by one of its largest outbreaks of acute gastroenteritis and haemolytic uraemic syndrome caused by a new emerging enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O104:H4 strain. The German...
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Raw sprouts and sausage: There’s some hot STECs out there
In 2011, one of the world’s largest outbreaks of hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) occurred, caused by a rare Escherichia coli serotype, O104:H4, that shared the virulence profiles of Shiga...
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E. coli on Dutch sprouts is new; 39 dead in German E. coli O104 sprout outbreak
Researchers say a strain of E. coli found last week on Dutch beet sprouts has not been seen before in the country and they have sent samples for further analysis at labs in Italy and Denmark. The Dutch...
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Germany’s E. coli nightmare: Too often, politics trumps safety
The Aug/Sept. issue of Food Quality magazine contains a package of articles about lessons learned from this year’s E. coli O104 outbreak in Germany linked to raw sprouts grown from seeds produced in...
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Credit card payments helped track German E. coli O104 outbreak in sprouts
Why bother editing; it’s all below in this letter from the current issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases, Identifying risk factors for shiga toxin–producing Escherichia coli by payment information....
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Magic man defends sprouts, another chain pulls the wonder food
Beginning in Dec. 2010, people started getting sick from eating raw sprouts on Jimmy John’s sandwiches, primarily in Indiana. After some 140 confirmed cases, the sprouts were linked to Tiny Greens...
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E. coli O104 in Germany, 2011, and E. coli O103 in Norway, 2006, highly similar
In 2006, a severe foodborne EHEC outbreak occured in Norway. Seventeen cases were recorded and the HUS frequency was 60%. The causative strain, Esherichia coli O103:H25, is considered to be...
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