Salmonella surveillance report ; no. 69

For the Month of December 1967This issue of the Salmonella Surveillance Report includes reports of four community outbreaks and three institutional outbreaks, a summary of products recalled by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration because of salmonella contamination, a summary of salmonellosis in Belgium for 1967, and the preliminary results from a program of surveillance of rendering plants in Wisconsin.In December 1967, 1,366 isolations of salmonellae were reported from humans, an average of 342 isolations per week (Tables I and II). This number represents a decrease of 19 (5.3 percent) from the weekly average of November 1967 and a decrease of 27 (7.3 percent) from the weekly average of December 1966.Reports of 797 nonhuman isolations of salmonellae were received during December, a decrease of 146 (15.5 percent) from November 1967 (Tables IV, V, and VI).I. Summary -- II. Reports of Isolations from the States -- III. Current Investigations -- IV. Reports from States -- V. Special Reports -- VI. International -- VII. Food and Feed Surveillance.196