An E. coli O157:H7 and campylobacter outbreak linked to raw goat milk from a Colorado dairy is now tied to 24 illnesses, including two children who required hospitalization, according
Henderson, Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Natural Meats recalled approximately 66,000 pounds of ground and tenderized steak bison products for potential E. coli O157:H7 contamination late Friday.
The recall was
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has found E. coli O157 contamination in the beef at a Bay Shore, NY processing company.
As
U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank approved a settlement between Cargill, Inc. and Stephanie Smith, a Minnesota woman who became ill with an E. coli O157:H7 infection and suffered
Last week I spoke at the National Environmental Health Association annual convention. My talk was entitled “What has Changed Since Upton Sinclair? A Contemporary View of Food Safety.” As I
In a new study from Temple University, researchers highlight the need for an interstate system to track and manage foodborne illnesses.
In the past month, two multi-state foodborne illness outbreaks
With the plethora of beef recalls over recent years, companies and scientists are teaming up to develop pre-harvest vaccines for livestock used for food. Pre-harvest vaccines are administered to livestock
Montclair Meat Co., Inc., of Montclair, California, announced yesterday that part of the approximately 53,000 pounds of ground beef the company recalled for potential E. coli contamination on May
Using an advanced genetic screening technique, the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Agricultural Research Service scientists
have detected–for the first time–over 700 genes that give
The American Meat Institute (AMI) pushed back against a bill introduced by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) last week that would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to regulate