At least 51 students and employees at Stanford University have been sickened in a suspected norovirus outbreak, according to a spokeswoman for Santa Clara County Public Health. The outbreak appears
Rumors of witchcraft began spreading through the Salem Massachusetts colony prior to 1692 and helped fuel the turmoil between the different religious sects in the area. Life at that time
A batch of canned, sliced beef has been taken off store shelves in Britain after it was found to contain horse DNA not identified in the ingredients list, reports the
With the official case count in the Foster Farms chicken Salmonella outbreak rising again on Wednesday, many reports have highlighted the fact that at least six of the seven Salmonella
UPDATE: Because the temporary restraining order in the case discussed below expires at midnight Thursday, all sides expected a ruling from the federal judge today, but that did not happen.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration released a draft of its spice risk profile on Wednesday, calling attention to the most common microbial hazards and filth in spices, along
Five cases of E. coli infection appear to be linked to a restaurant in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Oakland, according to Allegheny County health officials. Since the beginning of October,
At least 362 people in 21 states and Puerto Rico have been sickened by strains of Salmonella Heidelberg in connection with chicken produced by Foster Farms, according to the U.
The summer’s Cyclospora outbreak appears to be over, says the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its final update. A total of 631 people contracted cyclosporiasis
After Reser’s Fine Foods expanded its recall of products potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, Taylor Farms Foodservice in Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Texas and Tennessee are issuing a secondary recall
This article originally appeared in the October/November 2013 edition of Food Safety Magazine. The author has provided a number of references listed at the end of the article. “GMO
A “food fight” over allegations of possible inhumane animal treatment broke out in Minneapolis on Tuesday. On one side is the pig-raising Rosewood Farms at Pipestone, MN, which just