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By Joe Whitworth+, 10Aug2015, FoodQualitynews.com http://www.foodqualitynews.com/Sectors/Fresh-produce/Canadian-research-on-Salmonella-gets-grant Two Canadian universities have been given almost $10m for research to reduce Salmonella on fresh produce. Researchers from McGill and Laval universities received funding from Genome Canada and Génome Québec. Dr Lawrence Goodridge of McGill University and Roger C. Levesque from the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (IBIS), Université […]

Genomic research to identify Salmonella strains that cause human disease. Poultry used to be the usual suspect in cases of Salmonella poisoning. Today, however, most outbreaks of the illness come from fruit and vegetables that have become infected when the soil in which they grow is polluted by animal waste or non-potable water. There currently […]