On Wednesday, August 30, 2006. Jillian Kohl, a thrifty graduate student at the time, ate a spinach salad. Several days later the 24-year-old marathon runner began feeling ill and called
The nation’s biggest fresh produce handlers, distributors and retailers received a gift last week when Food Safety News published an apparently long-planned Q&A with Bob Whitaker, Chief
TV’s role in the Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak of 2008, which wreaked havoc with the nation’s tomato crop, is the subject of a new academic study by Texas Tech
The New York Times is reporting today that the nation’s largest producer of bagged salads, Fresh Express, has switched from washing leafy greens with chlorine, the industry standard, to
Fresh Express, the nation’s dominant bagged salad producer, needs to review its criteria for receipt of raw products, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) .
In
When Anne Schwartz, co-owner of Blue Heron Farm, a 20-acre organic farm in Western Washington, talks about the cut salad greens she sells at local farmers markets, she uses the
California’s Ready Pac Foods Inc. has recalled 702 cases of Spinach Temptations, a variety of baby spinach, in 6 oz. bags.
Ready Pac, based in Irwindale, said the baby
The practice of composting has proved to be an important alternative to landfills for recycling waste organic matter. At least 22 states in the U.S. now have restrictions or
A look at how E. coli O145 could have contaminated romaine lettuce on a farm in Yuma – Part III
As state and federal public health officials continue to investigate the
A look at how E. coli O145 could have contaminated romaine lettuce on a farm in Yuma – Part II
As state and federal public health officials continue to investigate the
A look at how E. coli O145 could have contaminated romaine lettuce on a farm in Yuma
As state and federal public health officials continue to investigate the E. coli