Riviera Beach utility leaders to meet over E. coli contamination report

Riviera Beach utility leaders to meet over E. coli contamination report

Riviera Beach utility leaders will meet Tuesday to discuss a report revealing intentional misinformation about E. coli contamination.

Efforts to save money contributed to Riviera Beach’s water quality law breaches

According to the Palm Beach County Office of Inspector General, staff members felt under pressure to restore polluted water wells to service for one reason: financial gain. According to Stuart Robinson, an investigator with the Palm Beach County Office of Inspector General, a former utility worker informed him that Compliance Manager Dr. Anthony Williams underperformed water quality tests because he was motivated to save money. Williams read a p…

Outbreak strain often not found in E. coli investigations

Investigations into E. coli outbreaks often fail to find the outbreak strain in food or environmental samples, according to a review. Scientists used Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) as a model pathogen to investigate the success of outbreak strain isolation from food or environmental samples during investigations. The main reasons why the outbreak strain was not isolated were lack of sample availability, complex properties of food products,…