Food Safety News spoke with veterinarian and UC Davis researcher Dr. Michele Jay-Russell at the 2013 annual meeting of the International Association for Food Protection. Jay-Russell specializes in
If there was a trifecta for gastrointestinal illnesses, Iowa would be running away with it this summer. It’s running second only to Texas in the national Cyclospora outbreak with
This is National Farmers Market Week, and with a bounty of freshly harvested food now available from local farms, people are flocking to the markets — for all sorts of reasons.
At least 52 people have been sickened with E. coli in an outbreak linked to Federico’s Mexican Restaurant in Litchfield Park, Ariz. Of those ill, 18 have been hospitalized,
At least 11 people are likely ill with Salmonella infections after dining at an undisclosed restaurant in Owosso, Mich., between July 26 and 28, according to a spokesman for the
Cyclosporine parasites continued to find Homo sapiens as hosts in at least seven states as the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta again marked the progress
Food safety experts are scratching their heads after a Washington Post article suggested last week that certain chemicals used in poultry processing might be masking the presence of Salmonella. It’
The number of customers sickened with Salmonella after dining at Clover Food Lab locations in Massachusetts has risen to 27, according to the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The exact
In June, Wellesley, MA, was ripe with rumors that one of its supermarkets was the source of three E. coli infections in the community.
Wellesley Health Department sources don’t
In a follow-up to its February report finding one-third of the seafood tested in the United States is mislabeled according to U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Gold Star Smoked Fish Corp. of Brooklyn, N.Y., is recalling Baltic Treasures, Norwegian Style Matjes, Marinella “Delicatessnaya,” Jewish Style Matjes, Traditional Russian Matjes, and Rybacka Wies Matjes Brands of
The World Trade Organization (WTO) struck down China’s anti-dumping and countervailing duty measures on broiler chickens from the United States on Aug. 2. Since China imposed anti-dumping