Pizza and Pathogens

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Pizza and Pathogens
Lesson No. 3
Down the Production Line
Brought to you by the Auburn University Center
for Detection and Food Safety.
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Tomato Sauce to Pizza
Farm
Factory
Grocery Store
Plate
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Contamination Can Be Anywhere
You get the point
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washthosedirtyhands
More masks Less Germs!
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Foods Causing New Outbreaks

• Bagged Spinach (E. coli O157H7)
• Peanut Butter (Salmonella)
• Puffed Rice Corn Snacks (Salmonella)
• White Black Ground Pepper (Salmonella)
• Dried Dog Food (Salmonella)
• Jalapeno Peppers (Salmonella)
• Frozen Pizza (E. coli O157H7)
• Pot Pies (Salmonella)
• Cookie Dough (E. coli O157H7)

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Costs of Foodborne Illness

• All foodborne pathogens cost 77.7 billion
  annually
• Most of that comes from only 5 pathogens!

Top 5 Pathogens in Food Annual Cost
nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica 3.3 billion
Campylobacter spp. 1.7 billion
Listeria monocytogenes 2.6 billion
Toxoplasma gondii 3 billion
Norovirus 2 billiion
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How do we find the pathogens?

• Biosensors
• Tiny, nano-scale
• Think of the smallest size you can, and its
  probably smaller
• Microbiology Testing
• Use microscopes and lab test to look for pathogen
  growth
• They have to wait and see if it grows because
  pathogens are so tiny

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Look Inside Libbeys Pumpkin Factory
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Where do we go next?