In the wake of the 2005 South Wales E. coli outbreak that sickened 168 people, there is widespread disappointment among consumers that restaurant and takeout businesses will not be forced
Another report into an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 by an independent commission in the United Kingdom is complete. Several others preceded it.
This one is known as the
Two members of the United Kingdom’s Food Standards Agency steering group on genetically modified foods (GM foods, or GMOs) recently resigned from the group in protest over language inserted
According to environmental health officers in the United Kingdom, Chinese restaurants and take-out establishments have dirtier kitchens than other eateries.
A survey of restaurant food safety in the United Kingdom
An October 2008 outbreak of antibiotic-resistant ESBL strain of E. coli caused the infection of 13 newly born babies at the neonatal intensive care unit at Luton and Dunstable Hospital
Thirty years ago when Mount St. Helens exploded in Washington state, it gave a whole new meaning to the concept of washing your fruits and vegetables. It was like being
A coalition of leading scientists from the U.S., Britain, and Italy is urging the British government to ban bisphenol-A, otherwise known as BPA, in food and beverage containers intended
Both England and Scotland since December have recorded cases of anthrax where the source is believed to be heroin or a contaminated cutting agent mixed with heroin.
There is no
Japan’s Muso Co. Ltd–the company that claims it introduced the United States to soymilk 28 years ago–is keeping mum about the alerts and recalls being issued around
In response to two deaths and nine recent outbreaks of Salmonella in the United Kingdom, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) is launching a full investigation, the Telegraph reported Saturday.
Since
George Griffin, Professor of Infectious Diseases and Medicine at St. George’s University of London and Chair of the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens, will lead the investigation into the