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Consensus at special meeting is vaccine technology exists
but broad adoption is needed

"Imperfect" but potentially effective technologies to
control foodborne pathogens in beef pre-harvest are now available
to government and industry, according to experts at a Nov. 9
meeting on pre-harvest pathogen control convened by the FSIS, the
Animal Plant and Health Inspection Service, and the Agricultural
Research Service. But can they be usefully implemented?

A number of vaccine technologies have demonstrated a significant
impact in reducing levels of E. coli 0157 and Salmonella bacteria
detected in bovine feces pre-harvest, said Guy Loneragan, PhD,
professor of food safety and public health at Texas Tech
University in Lubbock, who presented the opening address at the
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has shown a 40% to 60% reduction in Salmonella levels in feces in
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