At least 481 people in 25 states have been sickened in the national Salmonella outbreak tied to Foster Farms brand chicken, according to the latest outbreak update from the U.
Problems with food preparation, hand-washing and food-safety training were cited as the cause of two large, multi-serotype Salmonella outbreaks at Arkansas prisons in August of 2012, according to a new
There are many arguments, pro and con, about efforts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to renovate its meat processing inspection process.
Minnesota health officials are investigating an outbreak of Salmonella in connection with the Old Country Buffet in Maple Grove. Twenty-three people were sickened with abdominal pain, fever and diarrhea after
A total of nine patients in Tennessee were found to have suffered from Salmonella Heidelberg infections after consuming Tyson Foods mechanically separated chicken in January, according to the final outbreak
The sentence for the first felony conviction under the 14-year-old Michigan Food Law is for 14 to 48 months in state prison plus fines and court costs. It goes to
State and federal health officials are still attempting to get their arms around a deadly two-state Listeria outbreak. One death in California and seven illnesses in Maryland are blamed on
A lawyer for a second defendant in the fraud and conspiracy case against four Peanut Corporation of America (PCA) executives wants permission to skip the March 13 “Daubert” hearing in
This article was updated Feb. 24 with further recall information. At least eight people have been sickened with Listeria monocytogenes infections after eating cheese produced by Roos Foods under a
More than 150 students at a boarding school in Kuala Nerang, Malaysia, were sickened with a foodborne illness. The government’s news agency Bernama reported that seven of the students
Ruby Trautz, a retired registered nurse from Bellevue, NE, was the first fatality in the 2006 E. coli O157:H7 outbreak linked to Dole bagged baby spinach produced in the
An additional six cases of E. coli have been linked to burgers eaten at the Glasgow Hydro arena, bringing the total number ill to 21. The cases first began appearing