#Salmonella

The USDA is at long last giving some attention—a small but significant first step—to reducing Salmonella contamination of poultry products. Salmonella is a big problem in poultry and eggs.  For decades, food safety advocates have called on the USDA to declare Salmonella an adulterant.  Adulterated

pixabay In case you haven’t noticed, TikTok, while a wonderfully entertaining social media platform, is not always the best at making healthy suggestions… like cooking a chicken in your kitchen sink using just hot water. Which is exactly what TikToker @succhefful did in one of his “tutorial”

iStockphoto The CDC has asked Americans to refrain from kissing chickens and other birds The animals can carry salmonella that can be transmitted through close contact Over 160 people have fallen ill after interacting with domesticated poultry animals this year The internet is littered with

As readers of this blog should know by now, I’m a big fan of food safety lawyer Bill Marler, whose blog keeps me up to date on food safety matters. He posted recently on a Salmonella outbreak caused by contact with backyard chickens. The CDC keeps track of such things.  By its count, A total of

Author: Laurel Hamers / Source: Science News for Students 1) Microbes Untreated water can host plenty of harmful bacteria and viruses. That’s why starting in the early 1900s, U.S. cities began disinfecting their drinking water with chlorine. Afterward, rates of waterborne disease, such as cholera