In the midst of what has tragically become the deadliest E. coli outbreak in history, serious questions are being raised about the need to step up testing here to protect
Editor’s Note: This opinion piece was written by Carol L. Tucker-Foreman and Richard A. Raymond, M.D.
Like the familiar cell phone coverage commercial on television, we are beginning
Germany’s catastrophic foodborne illness outbreak, caused by a rare but virulent strain of E. coli, raises new concerns about whether federal regulators are adequately addressing similar emerging pathogens in
Texas Tech University graduate students recently went shopping in 32 cities in 28 states for the kind of non-O157 toxin-producing escherichia coli now killing people in Europe.
While they did
A paragraph in this week’s Government Accountability Office report on USDA’s school meal safety policies confirms that the Food Safety and Inspection Service has developed “standardized tests” to
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It’s Time to Move the Needle on non-O157:H7 STECs
Move over, E. coli O157:H7. It’s time to share the spotlight, or at least the microscope, with other types of foodborne illness-causing E. coli bacteria.
While the most
Last week I talked about Marler Clark’s nearly two-decade effort to provide information about food safety. Here’s another example of the informational websites we’ve created to help
At a conference in Washington D.C. Tuesday, food safety attorney Bill Marler told an audience of regulatory, nonprofit, and industry heavyweights that the federal government’s approach to E.
CHICAGO–The U.S. Department of Agriculture is poised to move forward on a number of hot-button food safety issues in the next year, according to a top USDA Food
Somebody may need to send a memo to J. Patrick Boyle at the American Meat Institute. That rapid analytical test for non-O157: H7 Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) that AMI