CHICAGO — After the Jack in the Box E. coli outbreak in 1993-94, there was not much more available to meat processors who wanted to fight the pathogen other than water
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Wednesday highlighted the need to test meat for non-O157 strains of E. coli bacteria.
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to a group of scientists and industry members at the
Editor’s Note: This opinion piece was written by Carol L. Tucker-Foreman and Richard A. Raymond, M.D. [1]
It’s Time to Move the Needle on non-O157:H7 STECs
For every rule, there must be at least one exception.
One of my rules is no reality television. It really has not been difficult. I’d just as much watch
One week after U.S. Department of Agriculture Inspector General Phyllis Fong called for better E. coli O157:H7 testing procedures, the Beef Industry Food Safety Council unveiled new, voluntary
U.S. Department of Agriculture Inspector General Phyllis Fong questioned the validity of the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) E. coli O157:H7 sampling program, raising questions about meat
A Denver company is recalling approximately 2,234 pounds of beef trim that was improperly labeled and thus must be considered potentially adulterated, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s
According to U.S. Customs, in 2007 the United States imported 3.048 billion pounds of beef or 10.7 percent of the overall beef consumption for the year. That
A former small-scale meat plant owner turned activist yesterday hailed an announcement that federal inspectors testing ground beef samples for E. coli will now try to verify where the meat