Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) is asking the White House Office of Management and Budget to move on a proposal to allow USDA to regulate additional strains of E. coli, beyond
The Center for Foodborne Illness Research & Prevention has posted a petition on change.org pressing the government to move forward with a ban on six disease-causing strains of E.
Most of us don’t get too many opportunities to lead change in our organizations and businesses. We might be in a position to try, but creating change is very
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is calling on Congress to fund the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act and to pass new meat safety legislation.
Gillibrand’s bill aims to reduce “all
In the midst of what has tragically become the deadliest E. coli outbreak in history, serious questions are being raised about the need to step up testing here to protect
Editor’s Note: This opinion piece was written by Carol L. Tucker-Foreman and Richard A. Raymond, M.D.
Like the familiar cell phone coverage commercial on television, we are beginning
Germany’s catastrophic foodborne illness outbreak, caused by a rare but virulent strain of E. coli, raises new concerns about whether federal regulators are adequately addressing similar emerging pathogens in
Texas Tech University graduate students recently went shopping in 32 cities in 28 states for the kind of non-O157 toxin-producing escherichia coli now killing people in Europe.
While they did
The Center for Science in the Public Interest, a non-profit focused on nutrition and food safety, has petitioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture asking to classify four antibiotic-resistant strains
For the first time, the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has issued a directive for its inspectors on testing and recalling beef contaminated with E. coli O26.