Let me start with a story–a true one. In August, 2008, a large number of people in Mayes County, Oklahoma, began flooding hospitals and physician offices complaining of profuse,
Yesterday a meat packing plant in Brockton, Massachusetts issued a ground beef recall after the Massachusetts Department of Health (DPH) confirmed a positive sample for E. coli O157:H7.
The
The last of the 93 children infected by E. coli O157:H7 at Godstone Farm at Surrey have been discharged from the hospital, the United Kingdom’s Health Protection Agency
Two of 15 Rhode Island sixth graders who came down with diarrhea after attending a three-day camp in Massachusetts have tested positive for E. coli O157:H7 and are being
CSI Miami-Bad Seed
Air Date-10/19/2009
Full Episode-43.26
With a deadly but unnamed strain of E. coli starring in the world’s most popular TV show, we had
A Texas meat market originally recalled about 4,500 pounds of beef asada, beef stew meat, and ground beef for possible E. coli O157:H7 contamination.
As of late Wednesday,
Over the past two weeks, Patrick Boyle of the American Meat Institute (AMI) has asserted that, according to USDA testing data, the incidence of E. coli O157:H7 in ground
More Meat Industry Dissembling on E. coli
On October 3, 2009, the New York Times published a lengthy and compelling story about Stephanie Smith and the E. coli O157:H7
Raw milk-related bacterial outbreaks have been an unfortunate and expanding part of business at Marler Clark. Although not an every year occurrence, and we do not get retained in all
A national survey on the microbiological quality of ice cream, conducted by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) in 2001 found that over half of the samples tested unsatisfactory
Earlier this week, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) announced she will introduce the E.coli Eradication Act, a bill that would mandate greater E. coli testing in ground beef processing, as
Today’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) contains “Recommendations for Diagnosis of Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli Infections by Clinical Laboratories.” The report, which was written by collaborators from