A dozen Oklahoma families are about to sue the Country Cottage restaurant in Locust Grove and its owners for the injuries they and their children received in the largest outbreak
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) held its first meeting to gather input on a proposed leafy greens safety plan from growers and shippers yesterday.
The USDA is trying
The California Strawberry Commission’s food safety program was introduced in 1998 after foodborne illness outbreaks traced to imported raspberries and strawberries the two previous years rocked the berry market
Common kitchen spices may reduce the deadliness of the E. coli O157 toxin, according to a news study in the Journal of Food Science.
The study, conducted by scientists at
The new multi-state outbreak of the dreaded E. coli O157:H7 from fresh produce is now being investigated, state and federal food safety officials say.
The U.S. Food
Editor’s Note: This is the final installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks.
A year earlier, when the publicly-traded company that owned Jack-in-
Federal agencies do not do enough to ensure the safety of school lunches according to a new report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) yesterday.
The report
Whole Foods will stop selling raw milk in Florida on Sept. 30th
The Glades Ridge Dairy, one of 19 dairies in Florida licensed to sell raw milk for pet food,
It appears that fresh produce may once again be responsible for a new outbreak of the dreaded E. coli O157:H7 bacteria in Utah, Colorado, and New York, Food Safety
Poultry litter is a fancy term for a mix of feces, sawdust, feathers, spilled feed, and other waste that might result from raising chickens and turkeys.
The byproduct, which is
For the survivors of those killed and for all those injured in the national outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium, the first good news may occur on Oct. 1st.
That is when
Nobody wants a recall. Nobody wants to make people sick. Generally, food manufacturers do have safeguards in place–some more than others–to avoid outbreaks of foodborne disease and the