Change: This article, the sixth in a series reviewing the role of food workers in foodborne outbreaks, describes the source and means of pathogen transfer. The   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 0)

Change: . The E. cava EtOAc fraction showed good antibacterial activity against all bacteria. Eckol isolated from E. cava EtOAc fraction showed antimicrobial activity against all   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 25770)

Change:  isolates from meat products, and to determine whether the PFGE genotypes are specific to product, producer, or isolation year (1997-2007). PFGE typing differentiated the isolates   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 25245)

Change: Young children and females had an increased risk of HUS after STEC O157 infection. With or without HUS, elderly persons had the highest proportion of   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 24128)

Change: The control of Salmonella in animal feedstuffs is important, principally to protect the human food chain from contamination by Salmonella derived from infected animals. The   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 23269)

Change: strains originally isolated from poultry were inoculated into frozen chicken nuggets (fully cooked) and frozen chicken strips (containing raw poultry) at initial populations of 104 to 105 CFU/g. Survival was assessed during storage at -20° for 16 weeks by measuring bacterial growth on minimal, selective, and nonselective Adherence characteristics of   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 22706)

Change:  penetrates the lettuce leaf's deeper surfaces by entering little pores called stomata. These are the pores plants use to obtain and release gases during photosynthesis--the vital process by which light energy is captured and turned into sugars. There are rather nasty pictures in the article of rod-like Salmonella clustered   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 22025)

Change:  cells on the vegetable tissue. However, chlorine dioxide and sodium hypochlorite solutions were able to inactivate most E. coli cells that passed from inoculated product   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 21587)

Change:  during freezing, thawing and home storage of frankfurters even though recent surveys show that consumers regularly store unopened packages in home freezers. The study examined the effects of antimicrobials, refrigerated storage, freezing, thawing method, and post-thawing storage (7°C) on L. monocytogenes on frankfurters. Antimicrobial resistance profiling and molecular subtyping of   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 20831)

Change: This study develops a longitudinal perspective on consumer confidence in the safety of food to explore if, how, and why consumer confidence changes over time.   View changes from previous version. (Word count: 20566)