In a public teleconference Thursday, the meat industry roundly criticized the government’s new plan to test beef trim and ground beef for six more strains of pathogenic E. coli
The meat industry wants more time — 120 days instead of 60 — to comment on the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) proposal to ban six more pathogenic serotypes of Shigella
We’re not sure what more we could have served up during this past week, the first of our third year serving the food safety community.
There was no better
Now that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has added the top six non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) to its list of adulterants in ground beef, what does this
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Under Secretary for Food Safety Elisabeth Hagen touted the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s decision to declare the six most common non-O157 serotypes of
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
September 13, 2011, will go down in the history of food safety as a very significant day.
It will be remembered by many as the day that Secretary Tom Vilsack
Ever since the Jack in the Box outbreak of 1993, E. coli O157:H7 has been understood as a major public health threat. It was declared illegal by the U.
Six dangerous strains of E. coli — dubbed “the Big Six” — will soon be banned from the beef supply, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials said Monday.
“This is one of
According to the CDC, E. coli O157:H7 causes 73,000 illnesses and 50 deaths every year in the United States. Another six E. coli strains – O26, O45, O111, O121,
Cargill’s massive recall of ground turkey products last week was not the first time the industry giant had to call back potentially contaminated meat from the marketplace.
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Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack Wednesday highlighted the need to test meat for non-O157 strains of E. coli bacteria.
Speaking
to a group of scientists and industry members at the