The Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention (CFI) recently released a report reviewing and highlighting the long-term health consequences of five foodborne illnesses: Campylobacter, E. coli O157:H7,
Pistachio growers are getting $500,000 from the federal government for an industry re-building campaign.
The subsidy is being channeled through the Fresno-based Western Pistachio Association (WPA) for
Wife cake with undeclared egg and wheat, jalapeno peppers with Salmonella and smoked fish and peragrina cheeses with Listeria all top this week’s enforcement report from the U.S.
Caving under the weight of a political firestorm over its proposed rule to reduce Vibrio vulnificus poisoning from raw oysters, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday
California is experiencing a failure to communicate.
A few days back, the state Department of Food and Agriculture put out a press release to make it clear that the dreaded
A second E. coli lawsuit was filed against Crocetti’s Oakdale Packing Co. in Plymouth County Superior Court in Massachusetts yesterday. The lawsuit was filed by Lincoln, RI resident Barry
No sooner have most people pronounced NAIS dead-on-arrival, than a number of recent events may have breathed life back into the U.S.A.’s National Animal Identification
For 11-year-old Andrea Munro, the night of Sep. 24 held no surprises: after sharing a meal of hamburger patties with her grandmother, as she had done many times
Congressoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) sent a letter yesterday to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Office of the Inspector General (IG) calling for an investigation of beef testing
Scotland’s first case of infant botulism since the Health Protection Agency began keeping records is the subject of intense interest.
Baby Logan Douglas, the infant son of young parents,
A two-year old girl infected with E. coli O157:H7 from an unknown source is getting attention in the United Kingdom for a very messy reason.
“The problem of
The Make Our Food Safe Coalition, made up of leading public health, consumer, and food safety organizations, continues to call on lawmakers to push the pending food safety legislation though