Foodborne illness outbreaks in the U.S. are not getting worse, but the government response to food-related outbreaks is deteriorating, according to a paper published by the American Enterprise Institute
The German E. coli outbreak is demonstrating the difficulty of identifying a “smoking gun” in outbreaks of foodborne illness.
Some are asking, “Where is the evidence?” By “evidence,” I believe
In what is becoming a haunting refrain of statistics connected to the E. coli outbreak in Germany, here are Tuesday’s updated figures: 24 dead (up 2 from the day
One child has died and at least seven others have been sickened from E. coli infections in Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virgina.
News reports said a 2-year-old girl from Dryden,
I haven’t said anything about the E. coli 0104 crisis in Germany up to now because I’ve been waiting for the evidence. Without evidence, the source of the
The Germany-based E. coli O104:H4 epidemic is now the second-largest and most deadly on record.
Canadian press reported Monday afternoon that the E. coli O104:H4 outbreak has now
Almost two weeks after the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) announced that cucumbers, lettuce and tomatoes were the most likely sources of the deadly E. coli O104:H4 bacteria outbreak in
Update: On Monday officials with the Lower-Saxony state agriculture said 23 of 40 samples from the suspect sprout farm tested negative for the outbreak strain of E. coli. More tests
Other U.S. media had not yet figured out that an epic food safety story was breaking on the other side of the world when Food Safety News writer Gretchen
I have been following the outbreak in Germany rather intensively for sustainable agriculture groups and local organic farmers, because of my past work on E. coli O157:H7 and spinach
Update: Sprouts from an organic farm in Uelzen, south of Hamburg, are now suspected as the source of the E. coli outbreak in Germany, officials from the state of Lower
German health authorities Friday continued to advise against eating raw tomatoes, cucumbers and lettuce from Northern Germany, and provided more details about their efforts to find the source of the