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... The number of identified listeriosis outbreaks has increased since the sequence typing of Listeria monocytogenes isolates was established in Germany. Due to the nature of the disease, listeriosis outbreaks are difficult to solve. We present investigational tracing as a simple and rapid method to conduct outbreak investigations. The method was applied in 2019 to stop a prolonged listeriosis outbrea ...
... Often, food-borne outbreaks cannot be clarified. One reason for this is that foods are no more available for testing once the outbreak is detected. Specifically, this can be the case for foods with a short shelf-life, such as plant foods. Moreover, sometimes the food matrix leads to performance failures of laboratory methods. In such situations, investigational tracing can be the key to outbreak c ...
... This is a summary of the contents of the Codex Guidelines on the control of Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat (RTE) foods and its three Annexes, including a short introduction to the Codex Alimentarius. ...
... An international group of experts from the food industry, academia, and governments met in Amsterdam in May 2009 to discuss approaches for controlling Listeria monocytogenes in ready-to-eat (RTE) foods in anticipation of an agreement by Member States on the Codex Guidelines for the pathogen in foods. The workshop was organised by Ewen Todd (Michigan State University) in cooperation with the Europe ...
PetraLuber, et al. ; ; Helen Bernard; Martin Bisping; Bernd Broschewitz; Michael Bucher; Alexandra Fetsch; Doris Förster; Oliver Frandrup-Kuhr; Gerd Fricke; Matthias Greiner; Stefan Gross; Christoph-Michael Hänel; Katrin Heusler; Julia Jähne; Norbert Kenntner; Andreas Kliemant; Kristian Kühn; Manfred Kutzke; Wulf Ladehoff; Olaf Mosbach-Schulz; Britta Müller; Albert Rampp; Annette Reinecke; Bettina Rosner; Show all 25 Authors
... This is a report on the results of the work of the German EHEC Task Force on the food safety side of the EHEC O104:H4 disease outbreak investigation in Germany. During the first phase of the outbreak investigation the main goal was to identify the contaminated food. To achieve this, two different strategies were followed in parallel. One approach was a detailed trace back analysis for all salad in ...