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Related links – Salmonella

Background information on Salmonella

• Frequently asked questions about Salmonella Brandenburg

• Microbial pathogen data sheets: typhoid Salmonella [PDF 20 KB]

• Microbial pathogen data sheets: non-typhoid Salmonellae [PDF 24 KB]

Media releases about Salmonella

• Poor food handling in the home under attack – 8 May 2009

• Strategy fights foodborne Salmonella – 23 April 2009

• Flour batch believed linked to Salmonella outbreak – 19 December 2008

• Food company fined for serious case of mischief - 28 March 2008

• Increase in gastro-intestinal illness – 13 March 2008

• Acute gastro-intestinal illnesses cost five million work days - 13 December 2007

• Survey provides insight into consumers’ thinking – 1 November 2007

Journal articles about Salmonella

• Strategy to reduce foodborne salmonellosis – Food Focus June 2009

• The cost of foodborne disease in New Zealand - Food Focus November 2008

• The ABCs of Salmonella - Food Focus May 2008

• Salmonella under the spotlight - Food Focus November 2005 [PDF 1.4 MB]

• A strategy for success - Food Focus January 2005 [PDF 1.3 MB]

Salmonella educational resources

For consumers

• Food safety in the home

• Meet the bugs brochure [PDF 426 KB]

• Tips for keeping food safe at barbecues

• Preventing cross-contamination from meat, especially raw poultry

• Food safety for takeaway food, leftovers and doggy bags

• Foodsafe Partnership website

For chefs and commercial cooks

• Food service and catering food control plan - see pages 7 and 8 [PDF 2.3 MB]

• Preventing cross-contamination from meat, especially raw poultry

• Safe cooking of chicken livers  

• Food safety for takeaway food, leftovers and doggy bags

• Cross-contamination poster [PDF 292 KB]

• Separate your food poster [PDF 267 KB]

• Hygiene matters poster [PDF 238 KB]

• How to wash your hands [PDF 176 KB]

Salmonella science and technical data

Science reports and research

• Resuscitation of Putative Viable but Non-Culturable (VNC) Foodborne Bacteria of Significance to New Zealand – ERS report June 2008 [PDF 1 MB]

• Survey of retail eggs for Salmonella - August 2007 [PDF 105 KB]

• Food safety risk profile for Salmonella species in broiler (young) chickens - June 2007 [PDF 352 KB]

• Modelling of exposure of New Zealand consumers to Salmonella - April 2007 [PDF 1.0 MB]

• Investigation of a Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak in the Auckland and Waikato Regions – January 2006 [PDF 452 KB]

• Salmonella (non-typhoid) in poultry (whole and pieces) - June 2004 [PDF 858 KB]

• Salmonella (non-typhoid) in poultry (whole and pieces) - October 2002 [PDF 628 KB]

• Salmonella (non-typhoid) in and on eggs – May 2004 [PDF 628 KB]

• Quantitative risk assessment of Salmonella in sheep meat produced in New Zealand – The Story So Far - July 2002

• Quantitative risk assessment model for Salmonella in sheep meat in New Zealand: Report of Gore Technical Meeting - October 2000 [PDF 170 KB]

• Specific research projects funded by MIRINZ Inc (Meat NZ & NZ Meat Industry Association) & NZFSA

Economic, social and environmental impact reports

• Risk Ranking: Estimates of the Cost of Foodborne Disease for New Zealand – ESR report March 2008 [PDF 421 KB]

• Annual Report Concerning Foodborne Disease in New Zealand 2007 – ESR June 2008 [PDF I MB]

• Annual Report Concerning Foodborne Disease in New Zealand 2006 – ESR May 2008 [PDF 1.3 MB]

Salmonella strategy documents

• NZFSA’s Salmonella risk management strategy, 2009 - 2012 [PDF 368 KB]

Last updated 29 September 2009