Today marks the end of the enforcement discretion period for U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) new program for keeping contaminated food out of the food supply.
The costs of foodborne illness are substantial and significant. The November 18, 2009, Chicago Tribune article, “Food Poisoning: Source of E. coli illness often can’t be found“, effectively described
Whether new vaccines against E. coli O157:H7 can work well enough to be economically viable could be decided by new large field trials that are just getting underway.
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The federal government has launched a new tool to help farmers and producers keep food safe from bioterrorism.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the U.S.
Reports of norovirus-associated illnesses in some people who had consumed oysters harvested in San Antonio Bay, which is located on the Gulf of Texas, has the U.S. Food
The National Meat Association (NMA) is pushing back against recent criticism over the safety of meat supplied to the National School Lunch Program.
Last week, USA Today featured a story
Federal Judge S.W. Lew Tuesday could accept a schedule agreed to by Taco Bell, its produce supplier, Ready Pac Foods Inc., and their insurance companies that will culminate in
What was Kellogg’s thinking? That is the question one has to ask in reading this week’s enforcement report from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
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Once upon a time, the U.S. Department of Labor was off and running with a new, popular workplace safety law to implement. Then they ran into Bill Barlow in
The Washington Departments of health and agriculture recently identified raw milk sold by the Dungeness Valley Creamery of Sequim, Washington, as the source of an E. coli outbreak among three
Stephanie Smith, a twenty-two year old children’s dance instructor left paralyzed from an E. coli-contaminated hamburger, filed suit yesterday against Cargill, the company that produced the meat.
Safeway Stores in Arizona and Gallup, NM are recalling 22,000 pounds of fresh ground beef produced by Beef Packers Inc, a Cargill unit.
It has “Sell By” dates of