Monday January 6, 2003

Foodborne Diseases

Foodborne Diseases
Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
Authoritative information on Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) and mad cow disease.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/diseases/cjd/cjd.htm

Center for Infectious Disease Research And Policy (CIDRAP)
This site provides information about infectious disease, focusing on bioterrorism and food safety. The site is updated daily with original content and links to medically reviewed sources on and off the Web. From the Center for Infectious Disease Research And Policy (CIDRAP).
http://www1.umn.edu/cidrap/

Official Mad Cow Disease
Over 7,000 articles on mad cow disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD), prions, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), scrapie, chronic wasting disease (CWD), transmissible mink encephalopathies (TME), and transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE). A project of the Sperling Biomedical Foundation. The science and news indexes are archived back to 1996; there is also a graphics archive with over 100 images.
http://www.mad-cow.org/

Food Safety Website
This Cooperative Extension site offers a directory of annotated links to consumer publications, research studies, and organizations in seven broad food categories - meat, poultry, fish and seafood, milk and dairy, eggs, fruits, and vegetables. Resource links on over 18 different microorganisms related to food safety from their related site, Organisms of Concern, are integrated into the categories as appropriate. A Hot Topics section covers miscellaneous information such as food safety facts and myths; new products and technologies; pesticides, chemicals, and food additives; labeling; holiday food safety tips.
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/foodsci/agentinfo/

Foodborne Pathogenic Microorganisms & Natural Toxins
Known as the Bad Bug Book, this handbook contains information on foodborne pathogenic microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, and parasites) and natural toxins. Provides basic facts including their characteristics, habitat or source, associated foods, infective dose, characteristic disease symptoms, complications, recent and major outbreaks, and any susceptible populations. Links to relevant Entrez abstracts and GenBank genetic loci. From the U.S. FDA, Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition.
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/intro.html

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