State and Federal officials announced today that they are investigating a multi-state outbreak of E. coli O121:H19 infections related to Earth Grown frozen falafel sold by Aldi stores.
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Scientists from a university in Singapore have found strains of foodborne E. coli have different tolerances towards acidic conditions.
E. coli O157:H7 is widely recognized due to the severity
We’re not sure what more we could have served up during this past week, the first of our third year serving the food safety community.
There was no better
Ever since the Jack in the Box outbreak of 1993, E. coli O157:H7 has been understood as a major public health threat. It was declared illegal by the U.
According to the CDC, E. coli O157:H7 causes 73,000 illnesses and 50 deaths every year in the United States. Another six E. coli strains – O26, O45, O111, O121,
Last week I talked about Marler Clark’s nearly two-decade effort to provide information about food safety. Here’s another example of the informational websites we’ve created to help
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
All Shiga toxin-producing E. coli–not just E. coli O157:H7–should be declared as adulterants under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA), says a petition filed today with the
Why Should the Food Safety and Inspection Service Declare Enterohemorrhagic non-O157 E. coli to be an Adulterant?
It seems that any serious discussion of E. coli O157:H7 always has
A June 2006 outbreak of E. coli O121:H19 at a Wendy’s restaurant in Ogden, Utah continues to make news.
Salinas, CA-based Pacific International Vegetable Marketing Inc., a privately-held
