Updated Salmonella outbreak cases

The Associated Press is reporting today that the FDA says that there have been 943 reported cases of Salmonella Saintpaul, up from a total of 922 cases on Wednesday and 869 last week.  The AP cites CDC spokesman Glen Nowak as saying:

The agency’s scientists are working around the clock to try to pinpoint the source of the outbreak but are not ready to single out anything. Salsa ingredients,
including peppers, are among the items being tested, Nowak said. "We don’t rank the items we’re looking at."

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Dr. Ben Chapman is a professor and food safety extension specialist at North Carolina State University. As a teenager, a Saturday afternoon viewing of the classic cable movie, Outbreak, sparked his interest in pathogens and public health. With the goal of less foodborne illness, his group designs, implements, and evaluates food safety strategies, messages, and media from farm-to-fork. Through reality-based research, Chapman investigates behaviors and creates interventions aimed at amateur and professional food handlers, managers, and organizational decision-makers; the gate keepers of safe food. Ben co-hosts a biweekly podcast called Food Safety Talk and tries to further engage folks online through Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and, maybe not surprisingly, Pinterest. Follow on Twitter @benjaminchapman.