Toronto’s public health department says a food poisoning outbreak at the Canadian National Exhibition was caused by a contaminated topping put on cronut burgers.

An investigation into the outbreak that sickened more than 220 people last week found samples of the cronut burger — a cheeseburger with a hybrid croissant-donut bun — were contaminated by

Last week it was Guinea Pigs causing Salmonella in Minneapolis and this week Russian Health officials fear an outbreak of bubonic plague in central Asia after a teenage boy died from the disease and three more were admitted to hospital in Kyrgyzstan.

Temirbek Isakunov, a 15-year-old from a mountain village near the border with Kazakhstan,

I bought 250 of the books in paperback for a conference that I recently spoke at to give away, but the books arrived late.  I now have them sitting in my office and thought it might be interesting to send a copy to any new subscriber of my blog.  The subscribe button is to your

Food Safety is the crazy uncle of corporate food production – everyone has one, but no one really wants to talk about it.

Corporate management on average is far more interested in sales and profits and would just as soon ignore those people who talk incessantly about a “culture of food safety,” or “food safety

According to Food Safety Magazine, NSF International’s Applied Research Center (ARC) has released the 2013 NSF International Household Germ Study, revealing that many common kitchen items harbor unsafe levels of E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria, yeast and mold. NSF International scientists point to a number of contributing factors — including improper food storage, handling, preparation and

If you were not legally responsible for the food you sell, why would you give a %^&$ about food safety?

The next time you walk down the produce aisle (with your kid in tow) picking out fruits and vegetables to feed your family, ask yourself the question I ask myself when I do the same:

Food Safety and the CEO – Keys to Bottom Line Success

Foodborne illness has, of course, been around as long as there has been food. But the identification and diagnosis of these diseases is an emerging science that is changing all sectors of the food business, and those chief executive officers (CEOs) and senior level

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