The University of Maryland is offering a new strategy for improving the safety of imported foods: train the foreign experts who test these goods in the U.S.’s standards
Food Safety News today begins its third year as a daily web-based news service.
The news service is the brainchild of nationally known food safety attorney Bill Marler, who has
As the U.S. Department of Agriculture moves to ban the sale of meat tainted with six serotypes of E. coli, companies will likely feel pressure to implement screening programs
Super germs and flesh-eating bacteria do not need a press agent. They are the stuff of blockbuster movies and best-selling books. Lantibiotics, on the other hand, are a kind of
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack paid a visit to the International Food Protection Training Institute (IFPTI) in Battle Creek, Michigan Monday to highlight the institute’s
Last week started out in Kansas City before moving on to Chicago to a truly excellent conference organized by the North American Meat Processors Association.
Officially titled “Prevention of E.
CHICAGO — The pathogenic Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia Coli (pSTEC) serotypes known collectively as the “Big Six” will soon be banned from U.S. meat, a top expert told a meat industry
Susan Vaughn Grooters, director of research and education with STOP Foodborne Illness, will be the consumer representative on the National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods (NACMCF), Agriculture Secretary
We started Food Safety News nearly three years to the day the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that a nationwide E. coli O157:H7 outbreak had been traced
GeneSeek, the Lincoln, NE-based unit of Neogen that traced the linage and genetics behind the first U.S. case of mad cow disease in 2003, is back in the news
Over the last months you have seen a few stories by our pair of veteran reporters, Ross Anderson and Andrew Schneider, who have Pulitzer Prizes in their past (and, we
Firefighters train by burning empty houses and pilots practice emergency landings. But foodborne illness response teams aren’t called into action until a real crisis is at hand. Until now,