Food Safety News writer Ross Anderson recently toured fish farms and processing plants in southern Chile as a guest of Salmon of the Americas, a Chilean trade organization. This is the second of two reports.
Chilean Fish Farms and the Tragedy of the Commons
Food Safety News writer Ross Anderson recently toured Chilean fish farms and processing plants as a guest of Salmon of the Americas, a Chilean trade organization. This is the first of two reports.
Puerto Montt,
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Minnesota Shows How to Cook for a Crowd
This time last year, Minnesota public health officials found themselves in the path of a political tornado – a classic clash between government and religion. Thousands of church leaders and others around the state had
Millions Still Like Their Burgers Pink
Despite repeated E. coli outbreaks linked to undercooked ground beef, millions of Americans continue to favor their burgers slightly pink inside.
That’s the gist of a survey by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control
Tomatoes and Salmonella: An Ongoing Case Study
In the fall of 2006, health officials in Minnesota and Vermont reported multiple cases of Salmonella Typhimurium poisoning with matching genetic patterns. Working with federal officials, they began looking for a source.
A month later
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Defying a Century of Epidemiology
In 1854, as a cholera epidemic killed hundreds in London, an English physician named John Snow was determined to find out how the disease was transmitted.
Snow doubted the prevailing belief that disease was spread
‘Bushmeat’ Carries Risky Microbes, Study Says
The U.S. is a major consumer of illegally imported African “bushmeat” and other wildlife products – and of the perilous microbial zoo that frequently accompanies those products.
That’s the bottom line of a study published
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HACCP Credited for Reducing Salmonella Cases from Chicken
Federally imposed processing safeguards prevented an estimated 190,000 cases of Salmonella poisoning from broiler chickens in the late 1990s, according to a study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The statistical study compared food-poisoning data
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Cancer Patients, Pregnant Woman at High Risk for Listeriosis
Pregnant women and people with leukemia and several other types of cancer are as much as 1,000 times more susceptible to Listeria infections, French researchers report.
Doctors at the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance
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FDA Agrees to Respond on BPA Risk by March 31
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has agreed to decide by March 31, 2012 whether bisphenol A, the controversial chemical known as BPA, should be banned from use in food and beverage packaging.
The FDA
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