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Random dog food sample proved critical in solving human illness outbreak

Posted on September 20, 2016

Blog: The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL)

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As part of Michigan’s routine pet food surveillance program, microbiologists in the Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) Laboratory Division were used to testing random samples of dog food. While they rarely found anything unusual or harmful, they continued this testing. On April 2, 2012 the importance of their work was made abundantly…

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