SEATTLE: Meat safety chief: Increase E. coli testing - (Des Moines Register)
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Seattle, Wash. Richard Raymond, USDAs undersecretary for food safety, was cited as telling a food safety conference in Seattle that hes determined to increase testing for E. coli contamination before he leaves office, adding, “We need to address this tougher problem and take some moves there to help protect the American public.”
Raymond, a physician who was formerly the chief medical officer in Nebraska, said results from some public health laboratories shows illnesses form non-O157 strains of E. coli are at least as prevalent as O157 illnesses. He said the non-O157 strains are harder to detect.
The University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory tested 1,285 people for suspected E. coli illnesses in 2007 and identified 76 positive cases
Thirty-three were confirmed as O157, while 32 tested positive for non-O157 strains. The strains in the other 11 cases could not be identified.
A 14-year-old Monroe girl died last November of one of the non-O157 strains, […]
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