Five cases of illness associated with consuming fiddleheads — the edible shoots of ostrich ferns — have recently sprouted up in Toronto, according to a health advisory from Toronto Public Health.
Fiddleheads
The Food and Drug Administration has stopped the shipment of fresh and frozen oysters, clams, mussels and scallops from Korea to the U.S. because many of these molluscan shellfish
209 people have fallen ill with Clostridium infection in an outbreak that occurred at a church dinner in Canada’s Prince Edward Island on April 28, according to the province’
“This is going to be a very short recall.”
That’s the prediction Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures near Fresno, shared with Food Safety News in an email Friday
Numbers are usually called trends after a year. After more than a decade, numbers can point up real problems or they just become more interesting.
That may be why FoodNet,
North Carolina’s Department of Public Health laboratory confirmed on Thursday that the ongoing Salmonella Paratyphi B outbreak linked to Smiling Hara unpasteurized tempeh was caused by contaminated packages of
While criticism of genetically modified foods has received widespread media attention in the past few years, consumers remain generally supportive of food biotechnology, according to an industry-funded survey released
People who ate at the Lone Star Restaurant in Evansville, IN from April 27 to May 3, 2012 may have been exposed to the hepatitis A virus, according to a
Three outbreaks of Salmonella poisoning caused by exposure to tiny pet turtles have burgeoned into five outbreaks, with 124 people infected in 27 states, the Centers for Disease Control and
At least 10 people infected with Campylobacter in California reported drinking Organic Pastures raw milk prior to becoming ill, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) said Thursday.
Raw milk,
“Meat glue” is yet another food industry practice that has been around for decades, but the public is only now learning about. Headlines like “Should you be grossed out by
The national hysteria over obesity has reached a crescendo this week, as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hosts the conference, “Weight of the Nation” in Washington,