The Agriplex at the Western Fair in London, Ontario, Canada might well be North America’s largest petting zoo with easily accessible stalls for 400 animals. Just ten years ago,
In the wake of increased media attention to meat safety issues, including an in-depth front page New York Times expose last week and Monday’s Larry King Live on CNN,
Routine testing by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) found possible contamination in ground beef at California’s San Diego Meat Company. As a result, about 925 pounds of
Professor Rick Holley at the Department of Food Science at the University of Manitoba gets quoted as much as anybody in Canada on his areas of expertise.
He serves on
A new rapid test for E. coli O157:H7 has been developed by Salt Lake City-based Idaho Technology Inc. (ITI).
“Our objective is to help food processors effectively test for
Two and half weeks before The New York Times put the beef industry’s safety flaws under a microscope, the meat industry had renewed its campaign for beef carcass irradiation
All Shiga toxin-producing E. coli–not just E. coli O157:H7–should be declared as adulterants under the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA), says a petition filed today with the
It appears that fresh produce may once again be responsible for a new outbreak of the dreaded E. coli O157:H7 bacteria in Utah, Colorado, and New York, Food Safety
If the truck that hit you turned into a 100-car freight train before you could get it into court, would that be a good thing?
The youngsters who were infected
Editor’s Note: This is the seventh installment in a ten-part series on meaningful foodborne illness outbreaks.
When the company that invented putting fresh produce in a bag ended up
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has promised the family of a Nevada woman that the U.S. Senate will take up a food safety bill this fall.
Reid, who