On the heels on multiple outbreaks this past year and currently amid three mystery outbreaks, the FDA along with growers, researchers and other entities in California have announced a multi-year study to enhance food safety through better understanding of human pathogens in the environment.
Participants include the California Department
Continue Reading FDA joins with groups in another study about the contamination of leafy greens
University of California-Davis food scientists found raw milk purchased at retail stores can hold a large amount of antimicrobial-resistant genes if left at room temperature.
Their findings are published in the journal Microbiome.
The UC Davis researchers collected 2,034 samples of unpasteurized milk from retail stores in California, Idaho,
Continue Reading Raw milk purchased at retail in 5 states found loaded with antimicrobial-resistant genes
Known in the food safety arena for his work in fresh produce research, Trevor Suslow has signed on as vice president of food safety for the Produce Marketing Association.
Suslow will start with the Newark, DE, non-profit in October, according to a news release from PMA. The move concludes a
Continue Reading Renowned UC-Davis researcher Trevor Suslow joins PMA staff
Every hour of every day people around the world are living with and working to resolve food safety issues. Here is a sampling of current headlines for your consumption, brought to you today with the support of Alchemy Systems.
Watchdog group pleased with drug drop
The Food and Drug
Continue Reading Briefly: Hot stockings — Healthy as a horse — Drugs down
If Jeff Bezos and the little online book-selling company he founded in a Seattle garage in 1994 can employ more than 314,000 people and buy Whole Foods Markets for $13.7 billion;
If he and the company known simply as Amazon can post a 25 percent revenue increase, quarter-to-quarter, taking in
Continue Reading Beach Beat: It’s not rocket science, it’s computer science
Earlier today, Amazon.com was still selling I.M. Healthy soy nut butter that was recalled in March when federal officials traced an E. coli outbreak to the product.
No one from Seattle-based Amazon immediately responded to mid-morning requests for comment from Food Safety News, but by 11 a.m. Pacific time, the
Continue Reading Amazon today removed nut butter recalled in March for E. coli
Plastic films made with bacteria-killing polymers have been proven effective as a frontline defense — not to mention offense — in the battle against biofilms in food production operations.
A preferred place of residence for pathogens such as Listeria and E. coli, biofilms 
form easily and are extremely difficult to
Continue Reading Fighting slime: Researchers develop bacteria-killing plastic film
Researchers at the University of California-Davis report that samples of raw cow’s milk shipped by tanker truck for processing show “amazing bacterial diversity” which varies by season. Their findings were reported Aug. 23 in mBio, the online, open-access journal of the American Society of Microbiology. 
The researchers sampled and
Continue Reading Study finds ‘amazing’ bacterial diversity in transported raw milk
As it turns out, the food stores and restaurant chains promising to sell only cage-free eggs by some date in the future and egg producers have been doing their due diligence when it comes to the housing of laying hens. Recently released findings of the Laying Hen Housing Research Project
Continue Reading Hen housing tradeoffs: Food safety, workers and consumers
SEATTLE — The mood was upbeat as the Center for Produce Safety’s seventh annual Research Symposium opened. “Welcome to our coming-out party,” said an enthusiastic Steve Patricio, the center’s board chairman, as he welcomed more than 300 attendees to the two days of research reports about food safety in the
Continue Reading Tech+intellect = 100% consumers at CPS Research Symposium
