This short symposium focuses on recent links of pest activity around foods and human illness. The disease-carrying potential of cockroaches, rodents, filth flies and other urban pests will be reviewed along with routes of transmission and related case studies specific to pests in fruits and vegetable operations, dairy operations, food service and food retail. In these food industry operations, presenters will report on recent foodborne illness incidents and data trends with specifics on identified pathogens, allergens and other contaminants with either direct or indirect linkages to pest infestations.

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