People who fell ill after visiting the Russian pavilion at Winnipeg’s Folklorama in August had likely eaten fruit compote contaminated with E. coli, according to the Winnipeg Health Authority.
It is long past time to pass S. 510, The Food Safety Modernization Act, with the amendment from senators Jon Tester (D-MT) and Kay Hagan (D-NC) folded in–
After more than two years of litigation, a federal court last week struck down an Ohio ban on labeling dairy products as “rbGH free,” “rbST free,” or “artificial hormone free”
In testimony prepared for a Wyoming Legislature public hearing, one of the Cowboy State’s top local health officials tells lawmakers to just say no to exemptions.
Robert E. Harrington,
Using sewage sludge – one of two end products from any wastewater treatment plant (the other is effluent) – as fertilizer on food crops is a hotly debated food safety issue, but
Choices can be difficult.
Our neighbors down in “The Springs” decided a couple of years ago to nix a tax increase for many things, including keeping the lights on at
AOL and multiple Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andrew Schneider wrote a series of pieces this week about non-E. coli O157s and the effort to declare them adulterants–yet another
Essex Farm Inc. (doing business as Best Farm) in New York City has recalled packages of soybean sprouts after routine testing by the New York State Department of Agriculture and
The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) continues to search for the source of a Salmonella outbreak among Mustang Public School students and other Oklahoma residents who became ill with
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced yesterday that Banner Mountain Alfalfa Sprouts were being recalled for potential Salmonella contamination.
Consumers who have the alfalfa sprouts in their possession
Seafood processing facilities located in New Mexico and Ohio were found with serious violations of the federal seafood Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) regulations.
The two companies, Above
U.S. Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), chairwoman of the House Rules Committee, submitted testimony on the threat to the U.S. military posed by antibiotic-resistant pathogens.
Slaughter, who