The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture announced Thursday that it had suspended the permit allowing Pasture Maid Creamery in New Castle, PA, to sell raw milk for human consumption. The move
The raw milk supplier to the coop now at the center of a growing Campylobacter outbreak in southeastern Michigan decided recently to stop distributing product across state lines three years
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), along with several state agencies, issued an alert yesterday warning the public about an outbreak of campylobacteriosis associated with drinking unpasteurized milk.
The European Food Safety Authority released the results of a survey on the prevalence of Campylobacter in broiler batches and of Campylobacter and Salmonella on broiler carcasses yesterday.
Campylobacter and
Many consumers associate organic food production with food safety. While there is an abundance of persuasive arguments supporting this connection, the claims are often not accompanied by credible, scientific studies.
At least 45,000 illnesses and 32 deaths resulted from 5,332 outbreaks of contaminated food during 2008 in the European Union, a new report says.
Those are among the
A nationwide raw chicken parts microbiological baseline study to provide regulators and the poultry industry with data on the prevalence and quantitative levels of certain foodborne pathogens and microorganisms is
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has developed new pathogen reduction performance standards for control of Salmonella and Campylobacter in chilled carcasses at
“The USDA has moved at glacial speeds on controlling Campylobacter in the chicken industry,” so says Caroline Smith DeWaal, director of food safety for the Center for Science in the
We all know or should know that many chickens contain either Salmonella or Campylobacter or both and that these bacteria can cause disease. Every couple of years Consumer Reports tests
A few years ago I came back from a vacation to find my office covered in Shigella–not microscopic foodborne illness-causing bacteria, but giant, stuffed Shigella from www.GiantMicrobes.com
The poultry industry’s anti-microbial actions from the “re-hang” to the “post-chill” steps in the young chick slaughter process are dramatically reducing Salmonella and Campylobacter contamination on the birds, a