Making the food system less complex could be key to cutting down on food contamination, says veteran food safety attorney William Marler.
CYNTHIA GRABER: This is Cynthia Graber reporting for FutureFood 2050. Food safety in the U.S. is still a huge issue today. According to the Centers for Disease Control [and Prevention (CDC)], 48 million
Hmm, there are things called metal detectors.
Kraft Foods is recalling about 242,000 cases (about 6,000,0000 boxes) of its macaroni & cheese after eight consumers complained about possible pieces of metal in the well-known blue boxes.
It is possible some boxes may contain small pieces of metal, Northfield-based Kraft said Tuesday. The company said no
In the United States:
Oysters from Long Island, NY, held in polluted waters, sickened more than 1,500 people in New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.; 150 died.
A public water source in Ithaca, NY, was polluted from a dam construction site, resulting in a typhoid outbreak
In 2009, during yet another foodborne illness outbreak, which had killed nine and sickened over 700 with Salmonella, our new President stated:
At a bare minimum, we should be able to count on our government keeping our kids safe when they eat peanut butter…. That’s what Sasha eats for lunch…. Probably three times a week.
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Recently, a Kansas State University Study examined again the effectiveness, through vaccination, of reducing pathogenic E. coli shedding in cattle. Schroeder, Ted C and Tonsor, Glynn T (2015) Agricultural and Food Economics: Market impacts of E. Coli vaccination in U.S. Feedlot cattle 3:7. This commercially available intervention has been used sparingly since 2010. But although
The next time you walk down the produce aisle (with your kids in tow) picking out fruits and vegetables to feed your family, ask yourself the question I ask myself when I do the same: “Does this grocery store – locally, regionally or world-wide owned – really care if what it sells you has a
“We’re going to move the timeline up,” Vilsack told Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn.
Phil Brasher reports that special safety labels for mechanically tenderized meat are likely to take effect as soon as 2016, two years earlier than expected, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told lawmakers. At a hearing with the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, Vilsack said
The FDA, CDC and the USDA’s FSIS today released a report on the new method for analyzing outbreak data to determine which foods are responsible for illness related to four major foodborne bacteria. The report, titled “Foodborne Illness Source Attribution Estimates for Salmonella, Escherichia coli O157 (E. coli O157), Listeria monocytogenes (Lm), and
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