Opinion
Food companies have been at the forefront of technological innovation and scientific research and development for decades upon decades. Cursory attention to the items we eat — how those items are grown, sourced, processed,
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EFSA identifies important foodborne parasites in Europe
Cryptosporidium spp., Toxoplasma gondii and Echinococcus spp. have been identified as important foodborne parasites in Europe.
Infection with these parasites in humans and animals, or their occurrence in food, is not notifiable in all member
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When lettuce becomes unhealthy, it’s time to rethink food safety in the U.S.
Opinion
Editor’s note: This guest column was written by Senior Director of Health and Food Erik Olson and Interim Food Director Lena Brook of the Natural Resources Defense Council. (In an earlier version of this
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Two research projects shed light on Listeria
Two recent research projects focusing on Listeria have helped boost understanding of the pathogen’s specific chemical and structural properties and improve food safety from farm to fork.
The first, led by the University of Surrey’s
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The little mushroom that could, with a little help from its gene-snipping friends
White button mushrooms. For some people, they’re a cooking staple. For others, they’re not even on the shopping list.
But no matter where they fall in a consumer’s bank of preferences, these popular mushrooms are
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Reality as we know it, as it’s been, and as it will remain if we don’t act
Contributed
Editor’s note: One of our regular contributors, Carl Custer, has been closely watching the investigations into E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks associated with romaine lettuce in the past year. Here he discusses some of the
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Letter From The Editor: Perishable Opinions
Opinion
Jim Prevor is the award-winning food writer, editor and lecturer from Boca Raton, FL, who is the founder and publisher of Produce Business magazine. He is known as the “Perishable Pundit,” and also for
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Publisher’s Platform: Revive the MDP
Hundreds sicken and hospitalized, dozens with kidney failure and 7 deaths from romaine in the last 12 months in the U.S. and Canada and the response from industry and government has been what? Please put
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EFSA issues second cyanide in food opinion
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has said it is unlikely that there is a health risk from cyanogenic glycosides in foods other than raw apricot kernels.
Traces of naturally-occurring compounds called cyanogenic glycosides can
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Faces of Food Safety: Meet Gregory McDermott of FSIS
Contributed
Editor’s note: This is a recent installment in a series of employee profiles published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service, republished here with permission.
Dr. Gregory McDermott protects the
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Researchers find possible antidote for paralysis in botulism cases
A compound that strongly inhibits botulinum neurotoxin has been identified by researchers.
The compound – called nitrophenyl psoralen (NPP) – could be used as a treatment to reduce paralysis induced by botulism.
There is no
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