Retail giant Walmart announced yesterday it will require additional food safety measures from its beef suppliers, including specialized testing for dangerous pathogens like E. coli O157:57 and Salmonella–as
On cue with recent discussions regarding the regulation of non-O157:H7 strains of E. coli, two outbreaks of non-O157 shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) strains have just emerged.
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U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), who is quickly becoming a leading food safety advocate in the Senate, sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom
Before the 1993 Jack in the Box outbreak, little was known about pathogenic E. coli. Since that time, however, E. coli has become nearly universally recognized as a deadly bacterium
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recently conducted a Food Safety Assessment at Fort Worth’s Beltex Corporation and discovered possible E. coli
KCTS 9, the public television station in the Seattle area, aired a short documentary last Friday on the history of food safety since the 1993 Jack in the Box E.
The Washtenaw County Public Health Department announced yesterday that it is investigating 10 potential E. coli cases that are likely caused by a common food source, according to a report
WinCo Foods announced Saturday that it is issuing an expansion of a Class 1 recall of fresh ground beef products to include ground beef sold at all of its retail
JBS S.A., the world’s largest beef producer, has formed a Food Safety and Quality Advisory Team for its American division, JBS USA. Based in Greeley, CO, JBS USA
Michael Moss and members of the New York Times staff won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for telling Stephanie Smith’s story, it was announced Monday.
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Going into this past weekend, on April 10, WinCo Foods recalled all ground beef products sold at its Modesto, CA store between April 3 and 9, 2010.
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A child diagnosed with E. coli O157:H7 has died after an outbreak at a Vancouver-Portland area daycare center hospitalized four.
Health officials said the first reported illness occurred on