I was taking my 10-year-old niece to see a movie the other night, and after she got into my car, we had an interesting conversation. “Zoe, please buckle your seat belt,” I said. “We’re only
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Study Finds Lack of Food Safety Education for Older Adults
Older adults–along with pregnant women, young children and immune-compromised individuals–face a higher risk of severe illness from foodborne pathogens than the rest of the population. However, a new study suggests that the elderly and their
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USDA, EPA Launch Tool to Better Assess Pathogen Risk
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that they have jointly developed a new tool to help “improve the quality of data collected
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Researchers to Look at 8 Harmful E. Coli Strains
A $25 million grant has been awarded to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to study how to reduce the risk of 8 pathogenic E. coli strains that can contaminate beef and cause human illness.
The five-year