Review

• Epidemiology of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli ......Yoshikazu Nishikawa and Lili Wang...... 141

Short Paper

• Evaluation of Commercially Available Rappaport-Vassiliadis Broth for Detection of Salmonella from Ground Chicken Meat and Oilseed ......Takayuki Morita, Yoshifumi Miyazaki, Kazuki Ohashi, Shota Miyachi and Naoto Ishizaki...... 155
• Evaluation of Sampling Methods for Coliform Detection in Fish-Paste Products......Mika Suzuki, Akira Inoue, Yoshiko Hattori, Kazurou Uemura, Yutaka Hanaoka, Norikazu Nakagawa, Tetsuya Mori, Makoto Hirai and Takeshi Ito...... 160

Epidemiology

• Identification and Comparison of Isolates from Several Coliform Group Detection Agar Medium ......Hiromi Nakamura, Jun Ogasawara, Kiyoshi Yasufuku, Kentaro Arikawa, Minori Ohyama, Niichiro Abe and Atsushi Hase...... 164
• Thermal Resistance of Flat Sour Spoilage Bacteria Isolated from Food Ingredient of Retortable Pouched Corn Soup and the Control by Intermittent Sterilization ......Mitsuko Wakushima, Keiko Nishikawa, Hidemi Izumi, Yoichi Kamata and Yoshikazu Nishikawa...... 170

• Book Review...... 175
• Introduction of Members...... 176
• Selected Paper Abstacts...... 178
• Proceeding of the Society...... 183
• Information...... 186