One of the nation’s largest beef processors announced Thursday that it has begun testing for six poisonous strains of E. coli in addition to E. coli O157:H7 — the
It’s become a tradition at Food Safety News to take a break on major holidays by hosting a virtual potluck or picnic, held entirely online for our far-flung staff.
Whenever July 4th comes around, I find myself thinking about the nation’s 50th birthday 185 years ago.
It was on that date in 1826 that Thomas Jefferson died at
A new method of testing food for Salmonella contamination using recombinant bacteriophage proteins is both faster and can be applied to larger food samples, says its French manufacturer.
It is
Just as Washington, D.C. is abuzz with a debate on agriculture appropriations — a bill in the House that would fund key food safety programs on the federal level — members
About a month ago, I was having this feeling that all news people occasionally get that the news of the future will never be as exciting or interesting as the
The source of the deadly E. coli O104 outbreak remains a mystery. Officials in Germany are scrambling for answers — and because highly perishable produce is the prime suspect, they might
As part of our ongoing expert Q&A series, a conversation with Jorgen Schlundt, former head of Food Safety, Zoonoses, and Foodborne Diseases at the World Health Organization, now
With the Food Safety Modernization Act setting new requirements for manufacturing and distribution, food companies must adapt to the new regulatory environment by identifying and resolving potential problems that could
Nancy Donley, president of STOP Foodborne Illness, was presented with the NSF International Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th Annual Food Safety Summit in Washington, D.C.
NSF International acknowledged
For most Americans, the “Jack in the Box” brand brings to mind images of a guy in a gray flannel suit attached to an oversized, cartoonish head — the superstar of
In its ongoing “Federal Player of the Week” series, the Washington Post put the spotlight this week on Irene Chan, the assistant director for the U.S. Food and Drug