{"id":25812,"date":"2023-05-24T10:18:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/financed-project\/a-syst-omics-approach-to-ensuring-food-safety-and-reducing-the-economic-burden-of-salmonellosis\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T10:27:33","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:27:33","slug":"a-syst-omics-approach-to-ensuring-food-safety-and-reducing-the-economic-burden-of-salmonellosis","status":"publish","type":"financed-project","link":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/funded-projects\/a-syst-omics-approach-to-ensuring-food-safety-and-reducing-the-economic-burden-of-salmonellosis\/","title":{"rendered":"A Syst-OMICS approach to ensuring food safety and reducing the economic burden of salmonellosis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It used to be that poultry was the usual suspect in cases of <em>Salmonella <\/em>poisoning. Today, however, most outbreaks of the illness come from fruit and vegetables, which become infected from the soil they grow in when that soil is polluted by animal waste or non-potable water. There currently is no method of reducing the growth of <em>Salmonella<\/em> on such produce.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Each year, <em>Salmonella <\/em>infects some 88,000 people in Canada who consume contaminated food. And while many people suffer no ill effects, or a mild case of abdominal cramps, fever or diarrhea, others experience more serious infections, which can result in dehydration or infection travelling beyond the intestines, requiring medical attention and resulting in disability or even death. <em>Salmonella <\/em>infection is thought to cost the Canadian economy as much as $1 billion each year in medical costs, absences from work and economic losses to food companies and restaurants.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Lawrence Goodridge of McGill University and Roger C. Levesque from IBIS, Universit\u00e9 Laval, are leading a team that is using whole genome sequencing to identify the specific <em>Salmonella s<\/em>trains that cause human disease. With this knowledge, the team will develop natural biosolutions to control the presence of <em>Salmonella <\/em>in fruit and vegetables as they are growing in the field. The team will also develop new tests to rapidly and efficiently detect the presence of <em>Salmonella <\/em>on fresh produce before it is sold to consumers, as well as tools to allow public health officials to determine the source of <em>Salmonella <\/em>outbreaks when they occur, so that contaminated food can be quickly removed from grocery stores and restaurants. Their work will reduce the number of people infected with <em>Salmonella<\/em> each year, as well as the economic costs of the infection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salmonella-systomics.ca\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genomequebec.com\/DATA\/TEXTEDOC\/Salmo-systomics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" \/><br \/>To learn more about this project, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-25812","financed-project","type-financed-project","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/financed-project\/25812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/financed-project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/financed-project"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genomequebec.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}