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
Greeley, CO-based JBS USA Beef says it saw a two-thirds reduction in microbial counts for E. coli O157:H7 in its eight domestic processing plants during the first half of
In one of its infamous Friday night recalls, USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced a 60,424 pound recall of ground beef products by National Beef Packing
Co-authored by Michael Kowalcyk
Ten years ago Thursday, our 2½-year-old son Kevin died from complications due to an E. coli O157:H7 infection. We later learned that Kevin’s
Two more cases of E. coli infection could be linked to strawberries sold at roadside stands and at farmers markets in Oregon, according to the Clatsop County Public Health Department.
Five confirmed cases and four suspected cases of E. coli O157 infection were reported Wednesday by Michigan officials, the day after the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety
Strawberries sold at roadside and farmer’s markets last month in Oregon have been implicated in an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 infection that has caused one death and
How Many Killer Bacteria Does it Take to Adulterate the Meat I Eat?
That question seems to have been put out there for public debate in quotes attributed to Betsy
GeneSeek, the Lincoln, NE-based unit of Neogen that traced the linage and genetics behind the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in 2003, is back in the news
In the wake of May’s European E. coli outbreak, microbiologists worldwide have sped up efforts to prevent a similar disaster from happening again. Among them, a team of collaborators
The United Kingdom’s government-run health care system will be taking verocytotoxin-producing E. coli infection (VTEC) in children more seriously in the future.
The UK’s Health Protection Agency (HPA)
Meat recalls during the first half of the year have taken on some unusual patterns. The number of recalls for pathogens found in beef, pork, and poultry has dropped off