Despite the Listeria outbreak beginning months ago and multiple recalls happening the number of ill and death linked to the outbreak has been growing. Please check your freezers. “When it
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In what has become a far too common and troubling occurrence, another whole genome sequenced (WGS) patient — one of the 61 confirmed sick in June 2024 — has come forward
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for FSIS-inspected ready-to-eat meals produced by FreshRealm containing a Food and
Thanks Professor Timothy D. Lytton – brilliant piece. You set the table for growers and processors of leafy greens to actually do something about the safety of the food they produce
The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) is issuing a public health alert for a frozen not-ready-to-eat uncured pepperoni pizza product imported from Italy that did not receive
It was President Franklin D. Roosevelt who, in 1935, signed the Wagner National Labor Relations Act, which became the foundation for modern collective bargaining through unions. But FDR had one
At the Tuesday opening of the USDA’s new Midwestern Food Safety Laboratory near St. Louis, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins launched a comprehensive plan to bolster efforts to combat
Princess Bednarski, Livestock Manager for the Houston Humane Society (HHS), has renewed support for a 2-year-old petition from Animal Partisan to the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
Poultry producers will continue to be able to legally sell products contaminated with Salmonella now that the USDA has withdrawn a proposed regulation.
The “Salmonella Framework for Raw Poultry” had
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In 1994, in response to an E. coli outbreak linked to ground beef sold at Jack in the Box restaurants, FSIS established an E. coli sampling program which treated
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Escherichia coli, commonly known as E. coli, is a versatile bacterium. While many strains are harmless and a natural part of our intestinal flora, some can cause severe illness,
A new report from the Government Accountability Office states that most goals to reduce foodborne illnesses in America have not been met.
The GAO report points out that the safety