Part I in a two-part series on food irradiation, with a focus on the science behind the technology.
With summer underway, barbeque season is in full swing. For some, that
Summer was only a day old when E. coli O157:H7 contamination brought the first large ground beef recall of the season.
Routine microbiological sampling by the U.S. Department
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has found E. coli O157 contamination in the beef at a Bay Shore, NY processing company.
As
Last week I spoke at the National Environmental Health Association annual convention. My talk was entitled “What has Changed Since Upton Sinclair? A Contemporary View of Food Safety.” As I
Montclair Meat Co., Inc., of Montclair, California, announced yesterday that part of the approximately 53,000 pounds of ground beef the company recalled for potential E. coli contamination on May
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) detailed new, more stringent standards for ground beef purchased for the the National School Lunch Program in the wake of
California-based Montclair Meat Company Inc. issued a recall May 15 for approximately 53,000 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to
Stephanie Smith, the subject of a Pulitzer prize-winning story published by the New York Times after she became severely ill with an E. coli infection from a contaminated hamburger, has
From a Press Release:
Stephanie Smith and Cargill Meat Solutions Corporation announce jointly that they have settled the lawsuit filed by Ms. Smith in December 2009. Ms. Smith, a twenty-two
WinCo Foods announced Saturday that it is issuing an expansion of a Class 1 recall of fresh ground beef products to include ground beef sold at all of its retail
Michael Moss and members of the New York Times staff won the 2010 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for telling Stephanie Smith’s story, it was announced Monday.
Smith is
Going into this past weekend, on April 10, WinCo Foods recalled all ground beef products sold at its Modesto, CA store between April 3 and 9, 2010.
The Class 1,