James Andrews is a Seattle-based reporter covering science, agriculture and foodborne illness outbreaks. He holds degrees in Environmental Journalism and English and has previously worked as a science writer for the National Park Service. His reporti
Executives at Sunland, Inc., the peanut butter processor linked to September’s outbreak of Salmonella known to have sickened 38 people, hope to resume their peanut business within the week
U.S. citizens are slightly less confident in the safety of the food supply compared to recent years, according to annual polling conducted by the Center for Food Integrity. As
A panel of business leaders in the natural foods industry — included executives at Whole Foods Market and Amy’s Kitchen — took to their phones on Thursday in a conference call
The U.S. Department of Justice has issued a Federal Grand Jury subpoena for a former employee of Peanut Corporation of America (PCA), four years after the company caused a
October has dealt sprout growers a bittersweet mix of news. Most recently, Kroger – the nation’s largest grocery retailer – stopped carrying sprouts in all stores under its corporate umbrella Monday.
Kroger, the largest grocery chain in the U.S., announced on Friday that its stores will no longer carry sprouts, one of the foods most commonly associated with foodborne illness
The number of illnesses linked to a Salmonella outbreak at Mexican-style restaurant On the Border in Vancouver, Wash. grew to 113 by Friday. Seven of the eight patients hospitalized have
Health investigators collaborating with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention managed to link two separate Salmonella outbreaks to Mexican-grown mangoes through the oldest trick in an epidemiologist’
It started out like most other outbreaks. Late last April, 14 people in the Canadian province of New Brunswick checked into hospitals suffering from E. coli infections that turned out
At least 143 people across 16 states fell ill with Salmonella from Mexican-grown mangoes beginning in July. Of those ill, at least 33 were hospitalized. 127 people in 15 states
The peanut butter processing plant that’s been named as the epicenter of an ongoing Salmonella outbreak was found to be operating under “objectionable conditions” when U.S. Food and
A small number of Walmart stores in undisclosed states carried cantaloupes from Chamberlain Farms, the farm suspected to be the source of a Salmonella outbreak that killed 2 people and
