UT Southwestern study finds sensing mechanism in food poisoning bug
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have uncovered a mechanism that a type of pathogenic bacteria found in shellfish use to sense when they are in the human gut, where they release toxins…
July 6, 2016 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: human, medical-center, oncalldietitian.com, pathogenic-bacteria, shellfish-use, southwestern, the-human
New Method Developed To Kill Pathogenic Bacteria Without Antiobiotics Or Chemicals
Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method to kill deadly pathogenic bacteria, including listeria, in food handling and packaging. This innovation represents an alternative to the use of antibiotics or chemical decontamination in food supply systems…
April 4, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: deadly-pathogenic, food-handling, including-listeria, innovation, innovation-represents, institute, ntibiotics-or-chemical, oncalldiets, pathogenic-bacteria, the-use
Foodborne Illness Could Have Sinister Causes
Doctors should consider the intentional addition of medicine to food as a potential cause of foodborne disease outbreaks. The World Health Organization suggests possible sources of foodborne disease outbreaks are pathogenic bacteria, viruses, protozoa, parasitic worms, natural toxins, and chemicals, but not medicines…
January 4, 2013 · by · in Nutritional News · Tags: intentional, natural-toxins, nutrition, parasitic-worms, pathogenic-bacteria, potential-cause, suggests-possible, world, world-health