You really have to wonder about Republicans. They always say they hate those damn ambulance-chasing trial lawyers but, short of sending flowers, defunding food safety is the best gift ever.
Two major, mulitstate foodborne illness outbreaks — Salmonella Panama infections linked to cantaloupes and E. coli O157:H7 infections associated with beef bologna — are being investigated by the Centers for Disease
In the ongoing battle to keep the potentially deadly E. coli O157:H7 pathogen out of hamburger, a range of “killer strategies” has been proposed, among them: zap the meat
When Nevada’s Green Valley High School held its winter sports award banquet last week, Seattle-based food safety law firm Marler Clark was there to announce a donation of $100,
A Kansas company is recalling 14,158 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety
In-shell hazelnuts taken from the home of a case patient infected with E. coli tested positive for the bacteria, a genetic match to a strain that sickened that person and
Seven sick people, most of them middle-aged men, scattered across three states. As epidemiology goes, that’s not much to go on.
To track outbreaks of foodborne illness, the “epi”
Canadian public health authorities are trying to determine whether two people with E. coli O157:H7 infections are part of an outbreak associated in the United States with in-shell hazelnuts.
Seven people in three states became ill in an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 linked to unshelled hazelnuts sold during the holiday season.
The outbreak, in Michigan, Minnesota and
In a recent article about the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (FSIS) subtle move toward more effective and efficient traceback efforts, Scott Goltry,
After the UK’s Food Standards Agency issued an official guidance this week, detailing the steps food handlers need to prevent cross-contamination by E. coli O157 and other bacteria, the
The former owner of the Llay Fish Bar is going to jail for eight months and is banned from ever being in the food business again.
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