The June outbreak that took the life of a 2-year old boy and infected nearly a dozen other children with E. coli O157: H7 likely occurred from exposure to
The Food and Drug Administration uses import alerts to enforce U.S. food safety regulations for food from foreign countries. The agency updates and modifies the alerts as needed.
Recent
Eight people are part of a Salmonella outbreak in Ireland linked to pork from Romania. Five of them were admitted to hospitals. Infected people also have been identified in other
After routine inspection activities uncovered a potential processing defect that could allow bacterial pathogens to survive, Conagra recalled a beef and pasta product from distributors and retailers in four states.
Almost 4,000 people from around the world gathered recently for the annual conference and meeting of the International Association for Food Protection in Louisville, KY.
Attendees represented 51 countries,
The state of New York is warning people to not consume unpasteurized raw milk from Churchtown Dairy due to possible contamination of Listeria Monocytogenes.
On Friday, the state Department of
A sixth person has died in a Listeria outbreak linked to sandwiches in the United Kingdom.
The patient was one of the nine previously confirmed infections and there are no
Opinion
Authors: Angela Spivey, Andrew Phillips, and Alan Pryor
It may come off as a truism that food safety is the “most central consumer safety and legal compliance issue” facing
A McDonald’s in Johnson City, TN, and a Little Caesar’s Pizza in Newark, OH, put their customers at risk of exposure to hepatitis A by permitting an employee
The risk of Listeria monocytogenes growth in raw milk butter is low if the pH drops below a certain level after so long, according to one study by Belgian experts.
The risk of Listeria from non-prepacked, ready-to-eat cooked meat sold at retail has been evaluated in Greece.
The work assessed Listeria monocytogenes exposure related to consumption of
Federal public health officials stepped up their warning today about pig ear treats for dogs as human illnesses related to the multi-branded products have now sickened 127 people in
