Sharing information on pests and toxins. (Environmental Health-'Net).<http://www.afpmb.org> Since 1962, the Department of Defense (DOD (1) (Dial On Demand) A feature that allows a device to automatically dial a telephone number. For example, an ISDN router with dial on demand will automatically dial up the ISP when it senses IP traffic destined for the Internet. ) has been collecting and managing military entomology entomology, study of insects, an arthropod class that comprises about 900,000 known species, representing about three fourths of all the classified animal species. and pest management information. The Defense Pest Management Information Analysis Center has an automated information storage and retrieval information storage and retrieval, the systematic process of collecting and cataloging data so that they can be located and displayed on request. Computers and data processing techniques have made possible the high-speed, selective retrieval of large amounts of system with almost 200,000 pest management-related articles. The center also publishes a wide range of documents for DOD medical planners, operational commanders, and pest management professionals. <http://www.fsis.usda.gov/ophs/rtetest/index.htm> On this site, USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service The United States Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is charged with ensuring that all meat, poultry, and processed egg products in the United States are safe to consume and accurately labeled. provides 10 years of prevalence data for Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes, E. coli O157:H7, and staphylococcal enterotoxins. The data were collected from ready-to-eat meat and poultry products plants randomly selected between 1990 and 1999. |
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