Salmonella sickened eight people who attended a function at Clearview High School in Lorain, Ohio, according to the Lorain County General Health District.
Health Commissioner Kenneth Pearce said an Ohio
The New York Times is reporting today that the nation’s largest producer of bagged salads, Fresh Express, has switched from washing leafy greens with chlorine, the industry standard, to
Meat processing was temporarily suspended at Tyson’s deli meats plant in Buffalo, NY, an action that by week’s end put 480 people out of work.
The action was
A Bronx seafood processor-importer is not doing enough to prevent botulism in its smoked fish product.
Botulism is a potentially deadly infection caused by the Clostridium botulinum bacteria.
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The juice processing facility operated by St. Thomas Dairies in the Virgin Islands of the United States is violating important food safety regulations.
A Sept. 25 warning letter from the
Barry A. Eisenberg has been named vice president of food safety services for United Fresh Produce Association, the big Washington, D.C.-based industry association and lobbying group.
In announcing
Protestors have burned piles of instant noodles in the streets of Jakarta, rebuking the Indonesian government for defending the safety of the noodles after Taiwan banned them for containing excessive
More than half of the school kitchens in the Philadelphia School District failed the last round of health inspections, according to state records analyzed by Philadelphia Daily News.
The worst
A former small-scale meat plant owner turned activist yesterday hailed an announcement that federal inspectors testing ground beef samples for E. coli will now try to verify where the
Starting in 2011, hospitals in the United Kingdom will be reporting on two more types of “health care associated” infections–E coli and methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA).
UK hospital
Sun Country Airlines, a leisure carrier based in Mendota Heights, MN, just got a lesson in the form of a warning letter from FDA on keeping food safe with proper
Consumers have been told not to eat “Dried Vobla Fish (Astrakhanskaya)” because the product was found to be uneviscerated, placing it at risk of contamination by botulism spores.
Vobla is