CDC SENDING STATES NEW OUTBREAK TOOL; LAUNCHING PULSENET 2.0

摘要

The federal government is rolling out a powerful, new and increasingly affordable food safety tool to about 30 states next year and to all 50 within two years. Dr. Robert Tauxe, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told attendees at a recent Food Safety Summit that the federal government is going to put the cutting-edge technology known as whole genome sequencing (WGS) into the field, with Listeria being its first target.