Alright, this question comes up in food safety circles a lot. There are as many opinions as there are variations on hand drying, and while there are some interesting questions about acceptability of
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Image created by Austin Bouck. Dear god let there be no egregious mistakes... Recently a podcast I often listen to has discussed several articles with a similar note in their conclusions. Nearly
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While it's not an animal product, the Listeriosis outbreak recently traced to apples is just as relevant to the food industry as a whole as any other food-borne illness outbreak. While I was looking
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It has been far too long since I wrote a blog post. Look out internet, I have a blogging itch that needs scratching, and it’ll probably cause a rash! …I apologize for that mental image. The
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No, that wasn't a typo. Today I came across this petition for rulemaking to FSIS from the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. First off: PCRM has some great programs that promote
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Shigella penetrating the intestinal wall. Source: cellimagelibrary.org If the world was enriched and homogenized, we would actually have a very good idea of what the microbiological community
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Circadian rhythms and jet lag. There, cyclic crowing behavior explained. Quite a lot of people are discussing this study from Japan examining the effect of light on the crowing behavior of
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It appears that the agencies that we rely on to track disease outbreaks need to start tracking disease, not just their own jurisdiction. An article in Sociology of Health and Illness piqued my
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This is the first study I've found that was interested in cataloging bacterial diversity among subclinical (or asymptomatic) infections. While they may be less threatening to the animal's overall
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I've recently been collecting evidence that suggests that we could increase adoption rates by incorporating more group housing into shelters. In building my study, I'm now interested in what factors