Last week, scientists at the National Meeting of the American Chemical Society reported on the development of the first two-in-one test for detecting E. coli bacteria and the toxins or
When the Clay County Fair in Florida gets under way tomorrow for the first ten days of April, America’s love affair with fairs will be back in season.
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This month Tom Besser, professor of veterinary microbiology at Washington State University, received $1 million from the Federal Agriculture and Food Research Initiative. This money will be used to evaluate
January and February are usually slow months for E. coli O157:H7 in beef. But it’s March now and another O157 year may well be underway.
Asheboro, NC-based Randolph
Between February 18 and 24, 2010, Kroger, the country’s largest grocery store chain, recalled five separate beef products for potential E. coli O157:H7 contamination. The recall information is
For decades, the meat industry has insisted that pathogens like E. coli O157:H7 are inherent to raw meat, that there is no way for the manufacturing process to eliminate
Kip Moore is a big, square-jawed transplanted Kansas Jayhawker living with his family in Golden, Colorado. He’s written a book titled: “Second Chance: The Story of a Father’s
Prior to 1993, little was known about pathogenic E. coli. Although scientists identified the first harmful foodborne strain in 1982 (O157:H7), it took a deadly E. coli O157:H7
According to KARE 11 News in Minneapolis, MN, the Minnesota company accused of producing contaminated meat that left a former dance instructor paralyzed has admitted fault in the case.
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When tests for the deadly E. coli O157:H7 pathogen come back with positive results, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) makes sure
S.T.O.P. stands for Safe Tables Our Priority, a food safety advocacy group led by parents of children who’ve died from foodborne illnesses.
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