Just as Washington, D.C. is abuzz with a debate on agriculture appropriations — a bill in the House that would fund key food safety programs on the federal level — members
Clusters of E. coli infection reported in Eastern Tennessee could be the “new normal” as non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) take their place beside O157, making outbreaks all that
Health authorities have said contaminated bean sprouts were the source of the outbreak of E. coli O104:H4 in Germany, and that became more evident this weekend.
But as the
“Of course we are challenging nature itself, and, it hits back … We have to accept that it’s much stronger than we are.”
– Werner Herzog (German Filmmaker on filming of
So the mystery of Germany’s sproutbreak is finally solved. Let the finger-pointing begin.
Nearly six weeks into the European epidemic of toxic E. coli O104:H4, German authorities Friday
“It is the sprouts.”
As the death toll in Germany pushed to 31, the county’s national disease-control center Friday said a new case-control study indicates that locally grown sprouts
Most of us don’t get too many opportunities to lead change in our organizations and businesses. We might be in a position to try, but creating change is very
While acknowledging they have as many as four more cases of toxin-producing E. coli, health official in Northeast Tennessee are telling parents not to panic over stomach flu that is
Nancy Donley, an avid and educated food safety advocate with STOP Foodborne Illness (previously Safe Tables Our Priority), has often said, and I can only paraphrase here, that if you
With the confusing back-and-forth claims and retractions about bean sprouts being the possible culprit in the tragic E. coli outbreak in Germany, it’s not surprising that some people are
My daughter Megan and I picked an interesting week to travel to Europe. We’re in the Netherlands where I’m doing research for my doctorate in environmental health. We
German officials Wednesday expressed some optimism that Europe’s E. coli outbreak is finally ebbing. But they also acknowledged two more food poisoning deaths, and warned that more deaths are