Salmonella surveillance report ; no. 55, DECEMBER 2, 1966

For the Month of October 1966.This issue of the Salmonella Surveillance Report includes progress reports on salmonella contamination of powdered milk and carmine dye and discussions of outbreaks in three states. In addition, sutmnaries of salmonella isolations from Australia for the second and third quarters 1966 and for the Netherlands for the first and second quarters 1966 are included.In October 1966, 1,721 isolations of salmonellae were reported from humans, an average of 430 isolations per week. This number represents a decrease of 26 (5.7 percent) from the weekly average of September 1966 and a decrease of 48 (10.0 percent) from the weekly average of October 1965. The cumulative number of isolations reported for the first ten months of 1966 (16,460) represents a decrease of 5.9 percent from the total number of isolations reported during this same period in 1965 (17,495).Reports of 713 nonhuman isolations of salmonellae were received during October, an increase of 167 (30.6 percent) over September 1966.I. Summary -- II. Reports of Isolatons from the States -- III. Current Investigations -- IV. Reports from States -- V. Special Reports -- VI. International -- VII. Food and Feed Surveillance.196