Five confirmed cases and four suspected cases of E. coli O157 infection were reported Wednesday by Michigan officials, the day after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety
Since arriving on Madison’s University Avenue 38 years ago and
becoming a staple for many University of Wisconsin students, Bagels
Forever has expanded throughout the upper Midwest. Now Wisconsin’
Poultry farms that transition to organic and stop giving their birds antibiotics have significantly lower levels of drug-resistant bacteria, according to new research out of the University of Maryland’
At least one food poisoning authority fears that, despite the recall of 36 million pounds of ground turkey, more Cargill ground turkey products may be contaminated with Salmonella and should
For most of the past decade, the U.S. Department of Agriculture
tried to get farmers and ranchers to accept the National Animal
Identification System (NAIS) without success.
NAIS
was
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) is warning the public not to eat certain mussels from British Columbia because they may contain a biotoxin, Diarrhetic Shellfish Poisoning (DSP), which reportedly
Following reports that fresh strawberries sold at Oregon roadside stands and farmers markets were the likely source of at least 10 E. coli O157:H7 infections, one fatal, the Seattle-
Three people in Michigan have been infected with E. coli O157 in an outbreak tied to ground beef, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service
On the heels of Cargill’s 36 million pound recall
of ground turkey sparked by a antibiotic-resistant Salmonella outbreak,
a group of Democratic lawmakers sent a letter Tuesday to
In the aftermath of any foodborne illness outbreak, from those that go unreported to those the size of Germany’s recent E. coli disaster, one thought is often likely to
A California grocery-store chain is recalling bags of organic baby spinach after a random sample test by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) showed that one bag
China’s latest food safety crackdown, which focused on the rampant use of illegal and often dangerous food additives, resulted in 2,000 arrests and 4,900 business shut downs,