#Food-safety

A reader writes: Can you address the current food crisis outlining the many foods, long time frame, economic impact, and personal effort involved in this event? I did not realize until I read the NPR email news brief this morning that one factory is the source of nine  deaths,  that multiple

By the time the FDA posted this outbreak alert, the cucumbers had all been picked, shipped, and done their damage. The outbreak Total Illnesses: 449 Hospitalizations: 125 Deaths: 0 Last Illness Onset: June 4, 2024 States with Cases: AL, AR, CT, DE, DC, FL, GA, IL, IN, IA, KY, ME, MD, MA, MI,

The FDA has issued its boringly titled Southwest Agricultural Region Environmental Microbiology Study (2019 – 2024). The report seems designed to be boring.  Its subject, however, is anything but. Let me do some translating (in Italics). “The study was designed to improve understanding of the

I learned about this one from Bill Marler’s blog: This is Nuts – California and Washington E. coli Outbreak linked to Gibson Farms Walnuts  This refers to the CDC announcement: E. coli outbreak linked to organic walnuts The CDC issued a warning: CDC warns of E. coli outbreak linked to organic

I thought this 2023 report was well worth a look.   Microbial diseases of animals can be transmitted to humans, and vice versa (witness COVID-19 in mink and zoo animals).  Some of these have led to serious epidemics.  Lots of people are worried that Confined Animal Feeding Operations could