The United Kingdom now has a petting zoo debacle on its hands.
The UK’s Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA) has tested feces from lambs, pigs, goats, cattle, ponies and rabbits
The United Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency (HPA) may designate E. coli as a “notifiable disease,” promoting the bug to the ranks of smallpox and measles, in order to improve
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), not industry, should set the standards for leafy greens Consumers Union, a non-profit consumer advocacy group, said yesterday. Last weekend, Ippolito
Editor’s Note: This is the ninth installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks.
Almost a decade after the Malt-O-Meal outbreak, Salmonella again struck
President Obama is too prone to making inflammatory remarks about food safety and it is “unnatural” to go this long without a “Senate-confirmed” Under Secretary for Food Safety at
Marion Nestle is an authority on food politics and policy. Nestle, a professor of public health and sociology at New York University, has written several books–all must reads for
. . . in Support of National Food Safety Education Month–That is, if it was really serious about food safety.
You may or may not know this, but this month, September 2009,
Editor’s Note: This is the eighth installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks.
For several years, cereal in a bag poised a silent danger to
With each outbreak of contaminated food, government’s first priority is to identify the pathogen and its source, and get the stuff off supermarket shelves before more people get sick.
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks.
When the company that invented putting fresh produce in a bag ended
From all corners of the Olympic Peninsula, WA, and via ferry from Seattle, farmers, foodies, and friends traveled to share the bounty of the summer harvest. Talkers came in the