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
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
“New SuperToxic Strain,” shouts the headline from Britain’s Sky News. “Germany Wrestles with Deadly E. Coli,” reports the Los Angeles Times. “A Warning for Americans,” lectures Fox News.
Some
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
Michigan State University has received a $2.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to find ways to reduce the amount of E. coli released by cattle,
The Food Safety and Inspection Service will focus on being “one step ahead” of Shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STEC) and antimicrobial-resistant pathogens, Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, Under Secretary for Food Safety
Tests conducted on commercial ground beef identified disease-causing E. coli that could be considered significant food safety threats, according to the authors of a new study.
Results of these latest