Foodborne illness research
Information on research programmes that aim to provide robust information on the presence, growth, survival, control and elimination of microorganisms throughout the food chain. Includes the extent, distribution, causes and costs of foodborne illness that may arise from meat, eggs and poultry, shellfish or organic wastes.
E. coli
- Feasibility of introducing methods, in the UK, for reducing shedding of E. coli O157 in cattle
- Evaluating FSA guidance on cross contamination
- Development and validation of methods for the detection and identification of sorbitol-fermenting E.coli O157:H-
- Review of past and current research on VTEC in relation to public health protection
- Serodiagnosis of infections caused by VTEC based on salivary antibodies to E.coli lipopolysaccharide (LPS)
- Diagnostic application of monoclonal antibody-based sandwich ELISAs for the rapid detection of VTEC
Coordination between funders
- Microbiological Safety of Food Funders Group
- Research relating to campylobacter
- Research relating to E. coli
- Research relating to salmonella
- Research relating to Listeria monocytogenes
- Research relating to Yersinia enterocolitica
- Infectious Intestinal Disease study
- Research relating to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis
- UK Publicly Funded Research Relating to brucella
- UK Publicly Funded Research Relating to Farm and Abbatoir Waste
