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With Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin leading the way, the CDC is reporting a Salmonella Saintpaul outbreak. So far a total of 73 persons infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Saintpaul have been
With four dead and nearly 200 injured, many seriously, many still hospitalized, last week’s bombing in Boston has been yet another horrific reminder of how vulnerable we can be.
I must admit as I recoiled from those numbers, I also thought of a spinach E. coli O157:H7 outbreak that killed five and sickened over 200
Food Safety News has been up and running now for four years now. We are seeing millions of visitors a year and have over 25,000 subscribers. We are proud that our reporters are considered some of the best in the business.
Over the years we have had a vigorous Op-ed page and would be
Food Safety News writers, Cookson Beecher and James Andrews were at the Washington Press Association Awards luncheon today and scored big – taking home a total of five awards.
Here’s what Cookson took home:
First place — Agriculture/Environment — “Calls for GMO Labels Keep Cropping Up”
First place — Business/Technology — “Breakthrough Offers Promise of
In 2010 I received the NSF Food Safety Leadership Award: Innovation in Education. So, clearly NSF knows what they speak.
In a germ study conducted by NSF International, 20 families swabbed 14 items in their kitchens. NSF’s microbiologists analyzed the results, looking for E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria, mold and yeast.
The
I was reading an article this morning: “Increased Recognition of Non-O157 Shiga Toxin–Producing Escherichia coli Infections in the United States During 2000–2010: Epidemiologic Features and Comparison with E. coli O157 Infections.” It was written by the who’s who of diarrhea in the United States. Some of the key points:
Big doings in Des Moines.
Tuesday I have the honor to share the stage with one of my “E. coli Hero’s,” Dr. Phil Tarr. Phil’s and my job is to give the Iowa Governor’s Conference a perspective of the 1993 Jack in the Box E. coli O157:H7 outbreak. Here are some of the key
I have known of Mike Taylor since shortly after September 29, 1994.
As Food Safety News reported in “Looking Back: The Story Behind Banning E. Coli O157:H7,” Taylor took the podium that day in San Francisco at the American Meat Institute’s annual convention to make his first, and arguably most significant, speech as the top
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