In a story last summer for Food Safety News, I looked to see if the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) recalls were biased toward any one day of the
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E. Coli O157 Increases Risk of Diabetes
E. coli O157:H7, the culprit in foodborne illness outbreaks linked to everything from ground beef to cookie dough, produces a Shiga-like toxin that damages the filtering part of the kidney and leads to a life-threatening
Is There a Pattern to FSIS Recalls?
Last year, after a particularly large recall of tainted meat was announced late one Friday night, marlerblog.com analyzed the recall patterns for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The question
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Cargill Has a History of Meat Recalls
Cargill’s massive recall of ground turkey products last week was not the first time the industry giant had to call back potentially contaminated meat from the marketplace.
Here is a brief list of some of
Food Safety in the Obama Years
President Obama entered office amid one of the worst times for food
safety. January through April of 2009 saw an extraordinary number of
recalls and elevated levels of illness due to the hundreds of products
Why Are There More E. coli Infections in Summer?
The number of E. coli O157:H7 infections increases during the summer months in Great Britain and elsewhere, and a paper published this year in the British journal “Environmental Microbiology” examined the links between that summertime
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Relating Refrigeration to Climate Change
Along with the many environmental problems posed by global climate change, an increase in ambient temperature could have negative effects on food safety everywhere, but particularly in developing countries.
That’s the message of a 2010
Assessing the Risk of Intentional Contamination
In what was the latest reminder that any nation’s food supply can be vulnerable to intentional contamination, CBS News recently reported the sketchy details of a supposed terrorist plot to slip poisons into restaurant and
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Thanksgiving Potluck: Curry Kale Soup
To celebrate Thanksgiving here at Food Safety News we’re hosting our fourth virtual potluck (we’ve also held virtual picnics on Memorial Day, the Fourth of July and Labor Day).
We’ll be having turkey, of course,
Breast Cancer: Linking Chemo to Campy
During October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, it’s important to consider the dangers posed by contaminated food and water to women undergoing treatment for what is the second-most deadly cancer in U.S. women.
Cancer patients receiving