Litmus paper, long known as a low-tech method of testing substances for acidity, might have a new use as a cheap, quick way to test for E. coli, according to
The King County Public Health Department is reporting that a child from the city of Mercer Island, WA, has fallen ill with a presumptive infection of E. coli O157:H7.
Organic food producers are very pleased with the Food and Drug Administration’s revised provisions for the produce safety rule of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA).
“It’s a
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration published its revised provisions to four of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) on Friday morning. Certain aspects of the rules for produce
Water is a suspect for five E. coli O157:H7 cases in Livingston County, New York that are related, but tests so far have turned out to be negative. That
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
A quarter-million residents of California’s Tulare Lake Basin and Salinas Valley may be drinking water contaminated with nitrate from fertilizer and animal manure, according to a study released Tuesday
In his State of the Union address Tuesday, President Obama said that while he’s in favor of reforming outdated and unnecessary regulations, he won’t be backing down on
After local well water tested positive for E. coli, residents in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania are blaming biosolids, applied to a nearby farm for the contamination.
Bill Schaffhouser, who has lived
Kids aren’t the only ones in the water this summer. Dangerous E. coli bacteria have also been populating public swimming areas, sickening dozens across the country since June.
Beginning
In any other year, just about the scariest public health warning for the people of the Sonoran Desert is the annual talk about how to avoid those really painful scorpion
On the 11th anniversary of what Canadians refer to as the Walkerton Tragedy, the Ontario government announced it has paid more than $72 million ($74.4 million US) in compensation