What Outbreaks Teach Us About WGS
CDC’s review of the epidemiological information on the recent Salmonella Senftenberg peanut butter outbreak indicated that five of five people consumed peanut butter and four of the five consumed ...
Virus Update: COVID Masks, Hepatitis Outbreak
Key Points: In today's Recommendation for Industry, we discuss COVID masking and the Hepatitis A outbreak. Read more below.Vaccines lower risk of long COVID 15%, death by 34%, data show. ...
COVID Showing Stable and Declining Global Rates
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss COVID-19 trends stabilizing and declining. Read more below.The CDC released research done on post-COVID conditions among adult COVID-19 survivors aged 18-64 ...
Produce Continues to Prompt Regulation and Recalls
From recalls to regulation, produce has been getting a lot of attention in recent months. Since March, FDA has released an online agricultural water assessment tool, announced ag water ...
Prepare Your Business for Omicron Variant Reinfections
Key Points: In today's Recommendations for Industry, we discuss COVID-19 variants, BA.4 and BA.5. Read more below.Despite what many of us might like to believe, COVID-19 has not gone away. ...
Congressional Cannabis Bills: Pending but Contentious
Regulations legalizing cannabis continue to be proposed at the federal level – with the operative word being proposed. Within the last couple months, a number of bills have been ...
Levels Increasing, but Significantly Lower than Early 2022
Key Points: In today's Recommendations for Industry, we discuss the trends of COVID based on TAG's weekly matrix and the CDC community levels mapping. Read more below.Four global regions around ...
Avian Flu Continues its Spread: What You Can Do to Protect Flocks
Avian influenza (bird flu) is spreading across the globe, and causing concern across the U.S. As of May 16, 2022, 34 states had at least one highly pathogenic avian flu ...
Keeping Ill Workers Home Reduces Transmission of Both Infectious and Foodborne Diseases
Key Points: In today’s Recommendations for Industry, we discuss keeping ill workers home to reduce both infectious and foodborne diseases. Read more below.To handle the rise in COVID-19 cases, the ...
Biosecurity Essential in Mitigating Canada’s HPAI Spread
Avian influenza (bird flu) is spreading across the globe, and causing enough of a concern in Canada that the CFIA has put out a “strong reminder” that anyone with birds ...
