date:Feb 11, 2019
ant professor of food microbiology at the center, and Shaokang Zhang, a postdoctoral associate with the center, led the project, which also included experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Minnesota Department of Health and the Translational Genomics Research Institute.
According to the Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System, close to 3,000 outbreaks of foodborne illness were reported in the U.S. from 2009 to 20