Consumers shopping for raw chicken that does not contain antibiotic-resistant E. coli are in for a difficult search, according to a research team from four separate institutions.
Vaccinating cows against the O157 strain of E. coli bacteria might reduce by nearly 85 percent human cases of the disease, British researchers said Monday.
CFIA and Société coopérative agricole de l'Île-aux-Grues are warning the public not to consume the Le Canotier de l'Isle cheese described below because the product may be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
An outbreak of an unusual type of salmonella infection, Salmonella Typhimurium, across England and Wales is being investigated by Public Health England, Public Health Wales, the FSA and local authority environmental health officers.
The uptick in recalls led some to speculate that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) might be taking a new get-tough approach targeting Listeria in smoked salmon and stepping up inspections.
Federico’s Mexican Restaurant has gotten a clean bill of health from Maricopa County after 79 customers at their Litchfield Park, Ariz., location fell ill with E. coli O157:H7 in July.
At least 646 people have now fallen ill with Cyclospora infections in connection to an outbreak that hit 24 states between June and August, according to the latest update from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
At least 21 people in New Hampshire have fallen ill with Salmonella in an outbreak connected to Joey’s Jerky brand chicken jerky, a product made for dogs.
Heads of Environmental Health and Directors of Trading Standards will wish to be aware that a company formerly trading as Farmbox Meats Limited has supplied frozen beef trim found to breach food safety regulations.
New Zealand dairy giant Fonterra confirmed here on Saturday that a precautionary recall of a batch of whey protein concentrate in the international botulism scare has been fully completed.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that after testing 1,300 samples of rice and rice products, it has determined the amount of detectable arsenic is too low to cause immediate or short-term negative health effects.
More than 60 students from a primary school in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region have contracted food poisoning and been hospitalized on Wednesday, local authorities said.
The US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has confirmed the equivalence of the food safety inspection system for processed poultry in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
An estimated 6,750 people who ate at a Long Island restaurant last month may have been exposed to Hepatitis A through a seasonal waiter diagnosed with the virus and hospitalized for four days.
In the past few years, genetic material from two different plants, a virus, a pig and, perhaps most frightening of all, a laboratory synthesized gene have been evaluated for use in the new transgenic GMO orange.
The UK's Food Safety Authority (FSA) has announced a new strategy to reduce the number of people becoming ill from campylobacteriosis, a bacterium most frequently found in poultry products.
