Webinar for Bloggers

Peanut Butter and Peanut-Containing Product Recalls Related to Salmonella Infections

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration hosted a joint webinar for bloggers on Tuesday, February 3, 2009, in response to the recent outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium and associated recalls of peanut butter and peanut-containing products.

Featured speakers included Casey Barton Behravesh, DVM, DrPH, DACVPM, LCDR, US Public Health Service and Veterinary Epidemiologist with OutbreakNet in the CDC Enteric Diseases Epidemiology Branch, and Jack Guzewich, Acting Deputy Director of the Office of Food Safety, Defense and Emergency Coordination in the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.

Transcript

Read the transcript [PDF - 1.09 MB]

Blogger Resources

Additional resources from the webinar include a number of Web sites and social media tools for bloggers and other consumers:

• Get more information about the social media response to the outbreak and recalls: www.cdc.gov/socialmedia
• Get information from CDC about the outbreak and investigation: http://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/typhimurium/
• Get access to the FDA database of peanut butter and peanut-containing products subject to recall: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/index.cfm
• Read and link to blogs about the subject:
  • http://pbrecallblog.hhs.gov/
  • http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/blog/
• Embed CDC widgets in blogs or other Web pages: www.cdc.gov/socialmedia or www.cdc.gov/widgets
• Add a buttons or badges to blogs: www.cdc.gov/socialmedia/blogger_graphics.html
• Embed a public health video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_NVLeIwfis or http://www.youtube.com/cdcstreaminghealth
• Follow us on Twitter:
  • http://twitter.com/fdarecalls
  • http://twitter.com/CDCemergency
  • http://twitter.com/cdc_ehealth
• Contact CDC-INFO, the CDC contact center, with questions:
  800-CDC-INFO (800-232-4636) TTY: (888) 232-6348, 24 Hours/Every Day
  Or cdcinfo@cdc.gov

More Information

For more information on the social media response, contact us at socialmedia@cdc.gov.